<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-202e8b0a-7fff-fe4f-908f-ed739b1c423a"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Postdoc Position in Data Science for Crime Analytics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry (CEPID-CeMEAI) at the University of São Paulo, in São Carlos/SP, Brazil opens a post-doctoral research position in Data Science / Visual Analytics  to work in the project:  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Crime Analysis and Forecasting in Urban Environments – Tools for Improving Public Policies in the Area of Security".  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The project, funded by Fapesp (Sao Paulo State research funding agency), aims at advancing the state-of-the-art research in spatiotemporal crime data analysis, crime pattern identification, and crime prediction. The project is in collaboration with the Núcleo de Estudos da Violência - University of São Paulo, São Paulo/SP, Brazil and Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil.  The post-doc will interact with members of those institutions but s/he will be hosted in São Carlos/SP.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow! Curiosity, open-mind, creativity, persistence, and collaborative-work capability are the key personal skills we target. A Ph.D. in computer science, applied mathematics, or related fields is required, with demonstrated experience and high quality publications. Candidates should have advanced programming skills and a solid background in data science and/or visual analytics techniques. Candidates must have got their PhD in the last 7 years.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Portuguese speaking is not required but fluency in English is mandatory.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Financial support can also be provided to cover the moving to São Carlos - Brazil. An extra grant is also provided to cover participation in highly relevant conferences, research trips (limited to 15% of the annual amount of the fellowship), computers and other research related equipaments. The position is for one year, but it can be extended to an extra year.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*** Application ***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applicants are invited to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae (including their full publication record), as well as reference letters (at least two) by email to Dr. Luis Gustavo Nonato - <a href="mailto:gnonato@icmc.usp.br">gnonato@icmc.usp.br</a> ( PDF files only) until September 30th, 2020.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contract Condition:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grant from FAPESP under the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDC-CeMEAI) (<a href="http://www.fapesp.br/en/17">http://www.fapesp.br/en/17</a>, <a href="http://www.cemeai.icmc.usp.br/">http://www.cemeai.icmc.usp.br/</a>).</span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888">Luis Gustavo Nonato<br>Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics<br>Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences<br>University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos<br>P.O. Box 668<br>13560-970 Sao Carlos - SP Brazil<br>
Phone - <a value="+551633739695">+55 16 3373969<font color="#888888">7</font></a></font></span><br style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">
web: </span><a style="color:rgb(153,153,153)" href="http://www.icmc.usp.br/%7Egnonato" target="_blank">http://www.icmc.usp.br/pessoas/gnonato/</a></div></div></div>