Academic

The Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (http://www.ornl.gov) is currently seeking highly qualified candidates for one or more postgraduate (postdoctoral or postmaster's) research positions candidates in "knowledge discovery", broadly construed.

The anticipated research projects will likely involve multiple facets of knowledge discovery, including but not limited to Bayesian and causal networks, multivariate dependence among large datasets, simulations and what-if scenario planning, automated hypotheses generation, rare event statistics from massive and disparate data, risk analysis for low probability but high consequence events, decision sciences, econometrics and economic utility metrics, uncertainty quantification and propagation in large end-to-end processes at multiple scales, geospatial-temporal statistics and data mining, text analysis and mining, large-scale agent-based simulations, reasoning, logic, and learning approaches, probabilistic inference and ontologies.

The candidates must have strong methodological background in one or more of these areas and must have excellent hands-on computer programming or computational skills with strong interests in developing novel methodologies and/or software prototypes. The ability to work independently and define problems, as well as work with a large team and balance multiple research agenda, is required. The candidates must be interested in the development and utilization of innovative methodological breakthroughs for high priority application solutions in multiple domains, leading to quality research publications and software prototypes. The candidates may be from areas like Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistics, Econometrics or Operations Research. However, the exact background is less important than interests, motivation and demonstrable skills. Candidates from the domain sciences, including but not limited to all areas of engineering and the natural sciences, are strongly encouraged to apply. Industry experience is a plus, especially where the experience involved research or development in related areas.

We are interested in hands-on researchers. Presentation and inter-personal skills, other than the ability to follow broad research agenda and work with a team, are useful but are not required. US citizenship or permanent residency (Green Card) is useful but is not required.

Interested candidates can send their resumes, URLs with samples of existing publications, or samples of ongoing research, to Auroop R. Ganguly: gangulyar@ornl.gov

Some positions at ORNL may require the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy security clearance and, therefore, U.S. citizenship may be required in some cases. However, the position/s advertised here is/are not expected to require U.S. citizenship or permanent residency at this time.

Please reference the position title and number (ORNL06-09-CSED), when corresponding about this position.

Appointments are offered through the ORNL Postdoctoral and Postmaster's Research Associates Program (http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/postdoc/pdneeds.htm) administrated by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). Applications can be submitted via their website:

Post-doctoral: http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/ornl/ornl-pd/ornlpdoc.htm

Post-masters: http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/ornl/ornl-pm/ornlpmas.htm

The postdoctoral and postmaster's programs are open to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or status as a Vietnam-era veteran or disabled veteran.