[AISWorld] PHD STUDENT POSITIONS IN BIG DATA AT UMBC

[Jianwu Wang]

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PHD STUDENT POSITIONS IN BIG DATA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, 
BALTIMORE COUNTY


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.


My research

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.


Desired qualifications

- A BS or preferably an MS in CS, IS, Applied Maths or related areas.

- Good programming experience and/or mathematical theory background on 
scheduling and optimization

- Interested in and/or familiar with Big Data techniques (e.g. 
MapReduce) and systems (e.g. Hadoop and Spark)

- Some background on Data Mining and Machine Learning


Further information

- Contact: jianwu _at_ umbc.edu

- My research: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~jianwu/ 
<http://userpages.umbc.edu/%7Ejianwu/>

- Information Systems Department at UMBC: 
http://informationsystems.umbc.edu/

- Application procedure: 
http://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/graduate-programs/doctor-of-philosophy-programs/doctor-of-philosophy-in-information-systems/

- Application deadline: February 1, 2016.


About Department of Information Systems (IS)

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.


About UMBC

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.

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Best wishes

Sincerely yours

Jianwu Wang, Ph.D.
jianwu at umbc.edu
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~jianwu/

Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
410-455-3883