The Web Science Digital Libraries (WS-DL) group at the Computer Science Department at the Old Dominion University at Norfolk, VA, USA is recruiting a fully supported graduate student in the PhD program. The student will be primarily working with Dr. Jian Wu, assistant professor of Computer Science, on mining scholarly big data and digital libraries. The project will leverage cutting-edge technologies in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and big data on information extraction, classification, and retrieval from scholarly big data corpora, including but not limited to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), and research papers. Specific tasks include but not limited to typed-entity and relation extraction, citation graph generation and analysis, building search engine systems, developing multiclass and multilabel classification models, and applying word-embedding on text retrieval and summarization tasks. The lab directed by Dr. Jian Wu will closely collaborate with the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech and/or the CiteSeerX group at the Pennsylvania State University in form of data and software sharing and online meetings. For more details about Dr. Jian Wu, including his research interest and publications, please see https://www.cs.odu.edu/~jwu.
The starting date of the position is Spring, 2020. Exceptions may be made if the applicants can start in Fall, 2019. The requirements include the following:
The applicant shall have a Bachelor's degree in at least one of the following subject domains: Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics. A Master's degree in above fields is a plus.
The applicant should have solid programming and algorithmic skills, preferentially in Python. Experience with packages such as scikit-learn, tensorflow, and/or NLTK is plus.
The applicant should have relevant experiences, sources, or publications, regarding at least one of the following subjects: database systems, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, and big data.
To be considered for this position, please email Dr. Jian Wu (jwu@cs.odu.edu) for a link to upload the following documents in a single PDF to box.com, following the order and naming conventions (lastname-application.pdf, all letters lowercased):
Cover letter: a personal statement highlighting the motivation to join the ODU CS PhD program and why the applicants are interested in the projects mentioned above. The letter should also mention any contributions to the publication provided (if any, see below)
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Transcript(s): preferentially official but non-official ones are acceptable
Publication: this is optional, but is a plus if there is any. A copy of previously published research paper the applicant coauthored.
Three Reference letters
Please note that submitting the above documents does not constitute a full application for admission. The applicants may be asked to provide additional documents and materials required by the ODU graduate school (see below) if they are encouraged to apply.
Graduate Admission Requirements: https://www.odu.edu/admission/graduate/requirements Graduate International Checklist: https://www.odu.edu/admission/international/process/graduate-international-checklist
The application deadline for the Spring semester is October 1st, 2019.