K-State KDD Lab: Graduate Research Assistantships, Spring 2000

Positions Available
Spring, 2000

Graduate Research Assistantships
Laboratory for
Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Several new research assistantships are available in the Lab for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) of the Computing and Information Sciences (CIS) Department at K-State, for research projects in the areas of:

Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, and Uncertain (Probabilistic) Reasoning

Scientific Visualization, Intelligent Displays, Virtual Environments

Java-Based Architectures for Parallel, Distributed Computation and Visual Programming

Time Series Modeling, Simulation, and Prediction

Expert Systems for Problem Solving and Critiquing

Necessary Qualifications

Experience with C, C++, or Java

Coursework or background in at least one of the following areas:

CIS 730 (Principles of Artificial Intelligence) or CIS 798 (Topics in Machine Learning)

CIS 560 (Introduction to Database Systems) and CIS 761 (Database Management Systems)

CIS 500 (Algorithms and Data Structures) and CIS 775 (Analysis of Algorithms), or equivalent

Stat 510 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics) and Math 510 (Discrete Math), or equivalent

CIS 636 (Introduction to Computer Graphics)

Research interest in one or more of the above project areas

Preferred Qualifications

Introductory coursework in machine learning, knowledge-based expert systems, or DBMS

Experience with any of the following is preferred:

Java (JDK 1.1.x or 1.2) and/or C++ (Microsoft Visual C++, MFC or Standard Template Library)

ODBC/JDBC (especially Microsoft Access)

Scheme, LISP; CLIPS, Art Enterprise; Perl, Tcl/Tk, or other scripting languages

Previous work on group projects

Interest in working as a graduate research assistant during the summer

Ideal candidates will be able to start in Spring 2000 and remain with the group for at least one year

Our computing environment comprises a number of high-end Intel Pentium III Xeon, Sparc, and (off-site) MIPS R10000 (SGI) workstations and multiprocessor cluster (Beowulf) nodes, running Linux, Windows NT, Windows 98, Solaris, SunOS, and Irix. Software components of our environment include Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MS Visual C++/J++, Open GL, Lisp, Scheme, various expert system shells and scripting languages, and a vast array of visualization and computational mathematics packages (MATLAB, SAS, MineSet, NeuroSolutions, etc.). Our systems are connected by high-speed networks to the computing facilities of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance. The lab director is William H. Hsu (http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu).

If interested, please send e-mail documenting:

Your research background and interests

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, and Statistics courses taken; overall GPA

Names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of 3 references

To: kdd-search@ringil.cis.ksu.edu

The KDD Lab web site is at: http://ringil.cis.ksu.edu/KDD/