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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in Visual Analytics or Trustable and Scientific AI</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We invite applications for one or two postdoctoral researcher positions <b><u>with Summer or Fall start dates</u></b> in visual analytics, visualization, social media analytics, and big data analytics across a
wide spectrum of application areas. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The successful candidate will perform duties including:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Research in visual analytics in application domains including social medial analysis, interactive and explainable AI, sustainable food-energy-water systems public safety, crisis management, functional soil mapping, precision agriculture. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Research in </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Foundational Data Science with a specific focus on trustable and scientific AI<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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Assist in drafting successful research grant proposals.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Lead research activities within the group, including project management and stakeholder engagement.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Assist in supervising graduate and undergraduate students. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Interface with renowned academic research groups at and beyond OU.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Requirements<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The candidate should hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Science, Industrial Engineering, Geography, Statistics, or a related field, with a strong research background and expertise in visual analytics
and some of these areas: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Both beginning and senior postdoctoral candidates are encouraged to apply. Excellent oral and written communication skills are mandatory.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">About Us<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We are the OU Data Science Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC Center). The DISC Center is a new campus-wide institute in VPRP office. Our mission is to empower transdisciplinary research and collaboration
to drive convergent solutions to societal challenges in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world through data science research, tools and capabilities.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white">The Data Institute for Societal Challenges convenes diverse teams to collaborate to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems and achieve a lasting societal impact. These
communities are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Aerospace, Defense and Global Security<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Community and Societal Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Future of Health<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Environment, Energy, and Sustainability </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">DISC works closely with local and international collaborators including social media experts, sustainability experts, agricultural producers, health and public safety departments, economists, first responders,
computational scientists, businesses, and researchers in science, engineering, and economics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the projects DISC is currently engaged with include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">AI Institute: Planning: A Gap-Based Approach to Frame and Develop Robust AI for Sustainable Agriculture</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">This project aims to build stakeholder trust in the power of artificial intelligence to create congruency and efficiency in predicting Climate, Food, and Water processes
by leveraging the foundation of the physical and biological processes underlying the data and their model representations.
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">UNSA/OU Alianza Institute: Public Health Monitoring and Decision Making
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">This pilot project will evaluate the feasibility of a real-time, electronic, syndromic surveillance and decision-making system to provide (i) base data needed for
accurate situational surveillance, virus spread status, and measurement of mitigation actions, and (ii) support for timely, data-, model-, and expertise-driven problem solving</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART)</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART) provides interactive exploration and analysis of real-time, publicly available
Twitter and Instagram data through scalable integrated topic modeling algorithms, spatial cluster visualizations, exclusion and inclusion of semantic keyword filters, and temporal views<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext">NATO- netwoRk for alErting And managing publiC safeTy and resilience – REACT</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We received $500,000 in funding from The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to develop
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> an innovative pilot platform (REACT) for the rapid and effective management of scenarios immediately following a terrorist attack with chemical and biological (CB) agents as well as to
control the diffusion of contamination over the space and time at short to-long term<b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Visual Analytics for Public Health Applications<o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The ongoing and evolving COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in tremendous negative effects on people’s daily lives. It is critical for decision makers such as health
care officials and governors to foresee potential impacts and make timely decisions. To aid int his process, we are developing PanViz 2.0, a visual analytics application that combines epidemic model and AI-driven analytics to infer the best-fit parameters
to enable the adaptation to ongoing pandemics at multiple spatial aggregations (national wide, state level, and county level).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To apply<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please send your CV and a one page research statement to Dr. David Ebert (<a href="mailto:ebert@ou.edu">ebert@ou.edu</a>) and Dr. Audrey Reinert (<a href="mailto:areinert@ou.edu">areinert@ou.edu</a>). Applications will be reviewed on a
rolling basis until the positions are filled. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David & Audrey<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr. David S. Ebert, Gallogly Chair Professor of ECE and CS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Associate Vice President of Research and Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Director, Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University of Oklahoma
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">5 Partners Place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">201 Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Norman, OK 73019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:ebert@ou.edu"><span style="color:blue">ebert@ou.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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