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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">We are continuing to grow our research activities with two new postdoc positions and three new faculty positions (junior and senior). If are interested, please
 contact me or apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">David<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">Vice President for Publications, IEEE Computer Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Two Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in Visual Analytics,
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Trustable and Scientific AI</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We invite applications for two postdoctoral researcher positions in visual analytics, visualization, data analytics, and human-guided, trustable, explainable, and science-based AI 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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</span></span></span><![endif]>Fundamental and applied research in visual analytics in application domains including social medial analysis, interactive and explainable AI, sustainable food-energy-water systems, public safety, precision health/public health,
 environmental sustainability/energy/precision agriculture. <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Human-guided AI with a specific focus on trustable and scientific AI<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Assist in drafting successful research grant proposals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Lead research activities within the group<span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Assist in supervising graduate and undergraduate students.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Interface with renowned academic research groups at and beyond OU.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Requirements</b><o:p></o:p></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,
 data analytics, GIS, or AI, and/or some of these areas: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Geospatial and temporal analysis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Trustable and explainable AI/ML<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Cognitive science <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Human-computer interaction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Human factors <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Digital Humanities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Food-water-energy systems<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Sustainable/precision agriculture
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Precision medicine/Precision public health.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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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.<span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About Us</b><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We are the OU Data Science Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC Center). The DISC Center is campus-wide institute in VPRP office, created 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:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Foundational Data Science<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Aerospace, Defense and Global Security<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Community and Societal Transformation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The Future of Health<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Environment, Energy, and Sustainability
<o:p></o:p></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>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the projects DISC is currently engaged with include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AI Institute: Planning: A Gap-Based Approach to Frame and Develop Robust AI for Sustainable Agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify">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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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">UNSA/OU Alianza Institute: Public Health Monitoring and Decision Making
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify">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 style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify">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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NATO- netwoRk for alErting And managing publiC safeTy and resilience – REACT<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify">We received $500,000 in funding from The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to develop 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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Visual Analytics for Public Health Applications<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify">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).<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To apply</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></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>). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.
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