[US](EECS) RA positions in Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Real-Time实验室招人信息 （ZZ mitbbs）

替实验室老板发信招人，明年秋季入学为主。老板的email是binoy@vt.edu.

Applications are invited from outstanding MS students in Electrical Engineer
ing and Computer Science for PhD positions in Virginia Tech/ECE Department's
Real-Time Systems Laboratory (http://www.real-time.ece.vt.edu/). Several Ph
D positions with full financial support is available on a multi-year, US Nat
ional Science Foundation sponsored project on developing abstractions, algor
ithms, and mechanisms for distributed synchronization using transactional me
mory (TM). Many research groups have recently come to the conclusion that lo
ck-based synchronization is not scalable, seriously error-prone, and non-com
posable, and that TM promises to alleviate many of these difficulties. Furth
ermore, TM is gaining significant traction as the performance and scalabilit
y of experimental TM systems on multicore architectures -- now ubiquitous --
have been found to be excellent---e.g., most chip vendors now provide TM im
plementations (in software or hardware) for their multicore systems.


Virginia Tech's NSF project aims to build upon these emerging results and de
velop distributed transactional memory as a mechanism for distributed synchr
onization. In addition to the previously mentioned problems, lock-based dist
ributed synchronization suffers from the problems of distributed cache coher
ence, node/network failures, and node joins/leaves, and the general difficul
ty of reasoning about, writing, and debugging distributed programs---RPC and
its derivative models are notoriously hard to get right, let alone synchron
izations within such models. Distributed TM promises to alleviate these. Vir
ginia Tech's preliminary results on this can be found in Relay: A Cache-Cohe
rence Protocol for Distributed Transactional Memory, OPODIS 2009; Location-A
ware Cache-Coherence Protocols for Distributed Transactional Contention Mana
gement in Metric-Space Networks, SRDS 2009. The project's goals are to devel
op abstractions, algorithms, and mechanisms for distributed TM and roll out
distributed TM infrastructure software---i.e., run-times, virtual machines,
and OSes.


Students with prior research experience in OSes, virtual machines, compilers
, networking, and distributed algorithms are sought. Prior publication recor
d is a strong plus. Interested students must apply to Virginia Tech's Gradua
te School (http://grads.vt.edu/), and are also strongly encouraged to contac
t Prof. Binoy Ravindran (binoy@vt.edu) with a CV.

[US](CS) RA position in UTA

I am looking for graduate (PhD, Master) and undergraduate students. Financial supports are available.

Bio
I got my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My Ph.D. advisor is Professor Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. I worked on the AIM and MetaQuerier projects, in the Database and Information Systems Laboratory. I received my B.S. and M.E. degrees in Computer Science from Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China. I am a member of ACM and SIGMOD.

My interests are in the areas of databases, Web data management, data mining, and information retrieval, with an emphasis on making data retrieval and exploration in emerging applications more effective, efficient, and robust. In particular, ranking and top-k queries, Web search/mining/integration, database exploration, query processing and optimization, social networks and user-generated content, OLAP and data warehousing. Currently we are working on the following projects.

Chengkai Li


Assistant Professor
The Innovative Databases and Information Systems Research (IDIR) Lab
bigD* Data Management Group
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington

[US](Construction Management)RA in Michigan State University

One assistant professor of Construction Management program at Michigan State University (MSU) needs one PhD now. His research focus is:
(1) Designing Construction Enterprises using Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS)
(2) Performance Assessment of Construction Enterprises

PhD Assistantship at Michigan State University, School of Planning, Design and Construction. Funding is available for the pursuit of a PhD degree in Construction Management at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. The assistantship pays for tuition and a monthly stipend. The research topic is in the area of "Enterprise Design and Growth Management". The details for the admission to the PhD program are available at http://www.spdc.msu.edu/Home/Student...uirements.aspx

His website is http://www.msu.edu/~elgafy
Who can join us in Spring 2010 is preferred, but Fall 2010 is also fine.
You may contact his at elgafy@msu.edu
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[US](Civil Engineering)RA position - Clemson University

We are looking for applicants, expected to start soon, from the United States for a National Science Foundation funded project.

One Ph.D. research assistant position is available immediately in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. The position will involve working in the development of the next generation plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with ITS capabilities.

Skills Required:
· Programming Skill (C++ or Matlab or any other programming languages)
· Some background in Automotive Engineering and Computer Networking is preferable.
· Excellent background in advanced mathematics.
· Not necessary to have a Civil Engineering BS/MS degree. However, must have an engineering degree.
· Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence is useful, however, not required.

Project Description:
Work will include computer simulation and field tests of different Intelligent Transportation System applications, such as Plug-in Hybrid Electrical Vehicles, Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII), and advanced traffic management and control systems.

Anyone, with an excellent academic background, interested in the assistantship and pursuing a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering (concentration: Intelligent Transportation Systems), please contact Dr. Chowdhury immediately.

Dr. Chowdhury, Associate Professor, P.E.
+1 (864)656-3313
E-mail: mac@clemson.edu
Clemson University | Civil Engineering Department | Ronnie Chowdhury