Post-doctoral researcher in Cloud Computing
Department: College of Information Studies
Location: Washington, DC
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Keywords: Cloud Computing, Hadoop, MapReduce
Posted on: Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Job Details:
The University of Maryland is seeking an energetic post-doctoral researcher at the intersection of information retrieval and natural language processing for a project focused large-scale document analysis using the MapReduce programming model. This project provides an opportunity to work in the emerging area of “cloud computing” and tackle text processing problems “at scale.” The successful candidate will have a strong track record of productive research and successful implementation in information retrieval, human language technologies, text mining, and related areas. Previously research with a focus on scalability and algorithmic efficiency will be highly valued. Prior experience with MapReduce is a plus, but not necessary.
The post-doctoral researcher will become a member of the Laboratory for Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP), a large, multi-disciplinary research group with strengths in statistical machine translation, summarization, question answering, information retrieval, and other areas in the human language technologies. CLIP is active in the area of cloud computing and maintains strong lies to industry.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens (no exceptions!). This position is available immediately and open until filled.
The University of Maryland offers competitive pay, great benefits, a friendly working environment, excellent computational facilities, a high level of interaction across academic disciplines, and a campus location minutes from Washington, D.C. with easy access to other cities on the east coast.
To apply, please send a c.v., list of references, and a description of your research agenda to Jimmy Lin (jimmylin [at] umd . edu).
The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity employer.
Application Deadline:
Contact Information:
Send questions about this position to: Jimmy Lin
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Application Deadline: open until filled
Categories Posted To:
Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing
