Positions Available
Spring, 2001

 

Graduate Research Programmers

Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases


 

Several new hourly research positions 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:

·         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 (Artificial Intelligence) or CIS 732 (Machine Learning) or CIS 690 (Data Mining Systems)

-          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) or EECE 636

·         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 (JDK1.1.x - 1.3, Swing) and/or C++ (MS 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, PowerPC G4, MIPS R10000 (SGI) workstations and Beowulf cluster nodes, running Linux, Windows 2000, Solaris, MacOS X, and Irix. Software components of our environment include Borland JBuilder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MS Visual C++/J++, Lisp, Scheme, Alias|Wavefront Maya, Open GL, Renderman/BMRT, 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@www.kddresearch.org

The KDD Lab web site is at: http://www.kddresearch.org

This search commences 12/30/2000 and terminates 01/21/2001.  For full consideration, please submit your application by 01/15/2001.