PhD Student positions in Virtual and Augmented Reality and Interactive Technologies

The Emerging Analytics Center (EAC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) has multiple 3- and 4-year fully funded PhD student positions in the areas of virtual and augmented reality and interactive technologies. We are seeking highly creative and motivated individual that would like to pursue a PhD degree in our center. These candidates need to have a strong background in interactive computer graphics or related fields (Gaming, HCI, virtual reality); good programming skills and experience in C++, Python, OpenGL; and, familiarity with visualization tools and game engines (raging from tools such as Paraview, VMD, ArcGIS, to Unity and Unreal Engine). Candidates must have a strong level of spoken and written English and must be able to work both
independently and in a team in a multidisciplinary environment. The positions have a great deal of flexibility for candidates to pursue research in areas of their interest. Candidates will also have the opportunity to define technology acquisitions at EAC in order to support research activities.

Academically these positions are under the department of Information Sciences, although based on the candidate’s background it could be possible to place the positions under other academic departments.

Candidates will work under the direction of Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira and Dr. Dirk Reiners in a variety of applied research projects in virtual reality, augmented reality, visual analytics, modeling and simulation, and training.

About the Emerging Analytics Center
The EAC at UALR is a new research center focused on applied research in visualization for a wide range of disciplines. The center has a strong multi-disciplinary base of faculty, researchers and students addressing a diversity of challenges through the application of virtual reality, mixed reality and visualization. One of the unique aspects of EAC is that it acts as a “knowledge-broker” between faculty expertise and industry and government R&D needs. EAC has a core group of 12 faculty members, but it also draws faculty from the entire campus as needed for each project opportunity. As a consequence, another unique aspect of EAC is its ability to perform highly multi-disciplinary research towards the design, development, and deployment of applied research products to be utilized outside the research community and integrated into industry workflows.

EAC is a focus of expertise as well as a focus of technology transfer. Research results are disseminated through traditional venues such as publications, patents, and spin-offs as well as through Open Source products and an expertly-trained workforce targeting specific industry segments.

The EAC also has High- Performance Computing capabilities, having direct access to a 512-core system and to a 4TB, 80-processor system, both located at the UALR Computational Research Center. Furthermore, EAC is connected to the nation’s high-speed fiber optic backbone with four dedicated 10Gb lines with fast access to larger-scale HPC facilities.

Application: please email a cover letter, CV, and at least two reference contacts to Dr. Carolina Cruz-
Neira, cxcruz@ualr.edu

Sys admin @ CERN

Systems Administrator

Join a passionate team and bring to the next level your experience with computer security. Contribute to the prevention and protection of CERN's unique computing environment. Take part!

Job Reference: IT-DI-CSO-2014-199-LD

Publication date:

12/01/2015

Closing date:

08/02/2015

Introduction

Member of the Computer Security Team in the Information Technology Department (IT), Department Infrastructure Group (DI), Computer Security Office Section (CSO).

Computer security at CERN is a permanent process, which needs to be pursued actively and permanently. The CERN Computer Security Team is facing this challenge daily in securing CERN's desktop computers, computing services, GRID computing as well as its control systems. This challenge includes the development and deployment of preventive and protective measures as well as the detection and response to occurring security incidents.

Functions

As a member of the Computer Security team you will play a key role in improving the computer security at CERN.

You will:

• Plan, organize, conduct and document security risk analyses, security assessments and security reviews of software, services and systems in collaboration with the corresponding software/service/system owners and experts.
• Become member of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) which can rapidly and effectively investigate and contain any computer security incidents which occur, in particular of incidents related with the WLCG computing grid.
• Take an active role and responsibilities in pursuing new security projects of the Security Team.
• Organize and give training sessions on security and develop new means to raise security awareness at CERN.
• Proactively follow up current trends related with security and incorporate them to CERN security if possible.

Qualification required

Master's degree in the field of Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

Experience and competencies

The experience required for this post is:

• Proven in-depth experience in the computer security domain, on computer, network or software security, or as computer system administrator.
• Proven experience in handling security incidents.
• Proven experience in managing, running and operating Grid computing services.
• Proven experience to present to large technical and non-technical audiences.

The technical competencies required for this post are:

• Security administration: good knowledge in organizing and conducting security reviews and assessments, including that of software.
• IT Operations: good knowledge on the technologies used in grid computing, their inter-dependencies and the managerial aspects of the grid.
• Design and selection of methods & tools: good knowledge in architecting computing services and/or software applications.
• Programming/Software development: good knowledge of shell scripting and programming (perl, python, and/or c), other languages or technologies would be a plus.
• System software administration: good knowledge in managing small computing clusters (linux prefered) .
• Service desk and incident management.

The behavioural competencies required for this post are:

• Achieving results: Delivering high quality work on time and fulfilling expectations; having a structured and organised approach towards work; being able to set priorities and plan tasks with results in mind; driving work / projects along and seeing them through to their conclusion.
• Communicating effectively: Successfully changing other people's opinions by persuasive arguments; delivering presentations in a structured and clear way; adjusting style and content to the audience; responding calmly and confidently to questions; expressing opinions, ideas and suggestions with conviction and in a logical/structured manner; keeping to the point.
• Learning and sharing knowledge: Keeping up-to-date with developments in own field of expertise and readily absorbing new information; sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others; coaching others to ensure knowledge transfer; creating or participating in forums to exchange experience, comparing techniques and learn from others.
• Solving problems: Identifying, defining and assessing problems, taking action to address them; addressing complex problems by breaking them down into manageable components; adopting a pragmatic approach; understanding the value of adopting generic rather than `gold -plated' technical solutions.
• Working in the interest of the Organization: Championing new initiatives within and beyond the scope of own job; promoting synergy and cooperation between the various parts of the Organization.

The language competencies required are:

• English: spoken and written, with the ability to draw-up technical specifications and/or scientific reports, and/or to make oral presentations. The ability to understand and speak French in professional contexts would be an advantage.

Eligibility conditions

Employing a diverse and international workforce is a CERN core value and central to our success.

We welcome applications from all Member States irrespective of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or personal situation.

This vacancy will be filled as soon as possible, and applications should normally reach us no later than 08.02.2015. By applying here, you allow CERN to consider your application for any position it considers relevant with respect to your profile. Please ensure you update your profile regularly with any relevant information and that you inform the Recruitment Service if you wish your file to be removed from the database.

Note on Employment Conditions We offer a limited-duration contract for a period of 5 years. Limited-duration contracts shall terminate by default on their date of expiry.
Subject to certain conditions, holders of limited-duration contracts may apply for an indefinite position.

These functions require:

• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

http://jobs.web.cern.ch/job/11247