PHD STUDENT POSITIONS IN BIG DATA AT UMBC

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[align="left"]PHD STUDENT POSITIONS IN BIG DATA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY[/align]
[align="left"]I’m looking for new PhD students to start in Fall 2016 to conduct Big Data related research. Students will be funded through research assistantships and/or teaching assistantships.[/align]
[align="left"]My research[/align][align="left"]My research interests include Big Data, Scientific Workflow, Distributed Computing, Service-Oriented Computing, End-User Programming. An important aspect of Big Data applications is that these applications typically involve many phases, such as data ingestion, preparation, integration, analysis, visualization and dissemination. My research focuses on usability/programmability at front end —and execution optimization at back end for these Big Data applications. I’m particularly interested in using workflow-based approach to build and execute two types of applications: Big Batch Data applications and Big Stream Data applications. My research is often from real-world applications, built on top of real systems, such as Hadoop, Storm and Spark. [/align]
[align="left"]Desired qualifications[/align][align="left"]- A BS or preferably an MS in CS, IS, Applied Maths or related areas.[/align][align="left"]- Good programming experience and/or mathematical theory background on scheduling and optimization [/align][align="left"]- Interested in and/or familiar with Big Data techniques (e.g. MapReduce) and systems (e.g. Hadoop and Spark)[/align][align="left"]- Some background on Data Mining and Machine Learning[/align]
[align="left"]Further information[/align][align="left"]- Contact: jianwu _at_ umbc.edu[/align][align="left"]- My research: userpages.umbc.edu [/align][align="left"]- Information Systems Department at UMBC: informationsystems.umbc.edu[/align][align="left"]- Application procedure: informationsystems.umbc.edu[/align][align="left"]- Application deadline: February 1, 2016.[/align]
[align="left"]About Department of Information Systems (IS)[/align][align="left"]The IS department has 32 full-time faculties, 1000+ undergraduate students, 100+ MS students, and 50+ Ph.D. students. Our academic programs, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, are currently experiencing growth in student enrollments. The research in the department mainly includes five areas: 1) Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management; 2) Database and Data Mining; 3) Health Information Technology; 4) Human-Centered Computing; 5) Software Engineering.[/align]
[align="left"]About UMBC[/align][align="left"]UMBC is an American public research university, located in a safe suburb area of Baltimore County, Maryland, approximately 10 minutes drive from downtown Baltimore City and 30 minutes drive from Washington, D.C. UMBC has been named the #1 Up-and-Coming University for six years in a row, since 2009, by US News & World Report. In addition, US News & World Report has placed UMBC in the top ten for best undergraduate teaching six years in a row, being placed at #5, the second highest-ranked public university.[/align]