[AISWorld] Postdoc Position Announcement

[Aditya Johri]

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR POSITION – ENGINEERING EDUCATION
The NSF funded TUES (Transforming Undergraduate Education is STEM) 
central resource
“Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere” (or DIA2) project is seeking a 
postdoctoral scholar at
Arizona State University (ASU). The postdoctoral scholar will join a 
multidisciplinary
collaborative team of researchers from ASU, Purdue, Stanford and 
Virginia Tech. The DIA2
project has three major goals: (1) Empower the TUES community to 
leverage TUES
investments by understanding the knowledge hidden within its networks. 
We use a simple
design philosophy – Deep Insights: No Manuals, No Training – to ensure 
that anyone can
have access to powerful data mining and visualization tools; (2) Develop 
and apply large-scale
knowledge mining and visualization techniques for characterizing the 
portfolio of TUES;
(3) Leverage social media optimization and integration to catalyze 
diffusion of TUES
innovations, and community building. Our approach combines theories of 
community formation,
user-centered design, large-scale data mining, social network analysis, 
and interactive
visualization theories. The postdoctoral scholar will be involved in 
various aspects of the project
including development of DIA2, conducting user studies, assisting with 
data collection and
analysis, and reporting results through conference/journal publications.

Candidates should be familiar with education and/or engineering 
education research and have a
Ph.D. in computer science education, information science, engineering 
education, psychology, a
STEM discipline, or a related field. The ideal applicant will have 
familiarity or experience in
information search and retrieval algorithms (coding languages of PHP, 
SQL, and XML) and
familiarity with human-computer interaction and user interface design. 
In addition, the candidate
should be comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative research 
methods including
experience with developing coding schemes and using statistical 
software. Applicants should
demonstrate the ability to work on a team and interest in working in 
partnership to explore the
diffusion of engineering education innovations.

We seek a candidate who can start immediately. Salary will be dependent 
on level of expertise
and experience. The position will be offered as a one-year appointment 
with the potential for
renewal contingent on funding and performance in Year 1.

To apply, send a CV, statement of interest in the position (no more than 
1 page), and the name
and contact information of two individuals who can serve as a reference 
to Professor Ann
McKenna, ann.mckenna at asu.edu, Subject: “DIA2 Postdoc”. Applications will 
be reviewed until
the position is filled.

Arizona State University is an equal opportunity employer.

Department of Engineering
7171 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall
Peralta Hall, Suite 330
Mesa, Arizona 85212
(480) 727-2727
Fax: (480) 727-1549
http://technology.asu.edu

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Aditya Johri
Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Computer Science (courtesy)
Industrial and Systems Engineering (courtesy)
Science and Technology in Society (courtesy)
616 McBryde Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg 24061, USA.
<ajohri at vt.edu><540-231-0653>
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ajohri
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