POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Department: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Keywords: data structures, on-line algorithms, spatial data structures, succinct data structures
Posted on: Monday, August 24th, 2009
Job Details:
Two postdoctoral positions are available in the Algorithms group at the University of Waterloo. The successful applicants will work with Prof. Ian Munro and Prof. Alex López-Ortiz, as part of the ongoing projects in “Optimal data structures for organization and retrieval of spatial data structures” and “Design of space efficient data structures”.
The PDF fellows are expected to participate in the projects as well as to sustain their own research program. A strong background in algorithms, particularly as it relates to one or more of the following areas is a must:
• succinct data structures,
• online algorithms,
• computational geometry,
• spatial data structures,
• I/O-aware algorithms and/or
• cache oblivious algorithms
The positions are for one or two years. Base salaries are $50,000.
The Algorithms and Complexity group at the School of Computer Science has sixteen faculty members, approximately fifty graduate students and several posdoctoral fellows.
Application Deadline:
Contact Information:
Send questions about this position to: Alex Lopez-Ortiz
E-Mail: EMAIL OBFUSCATED
Phone: +1 519 885 1211 ext 33284
Application Deadline: Oct 1, 2009
Categories Posted To:
Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Theory / Algorithms
