Post Doctoral Fellow - INFO SCI TECHNOLOGY

Department

: INFO SCI TECHNOLOGY

Salary

: Commensurate with experience \& education

Description

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allow for completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization. Develops leadership and management skills.

• Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experiments or projects under control or supervisory responsibility.
• Recommends changes in research, testing or experimental procedures.
• May be responsible for a single highly technical and complex piece of research equipment.
• May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.
• May plan for and assign personnel to projects under control.
• Operates with latitude for unreviewed action.
• May receive general supervision conferring with higher levels only in unusual situations.
• Performs other job-related duties as required.

We seek a candidate with strong research experience in subsurface imaging, data analytics, scientific computing, and computational methods for complex scientific data. A Ph.D. in Geophysics, Earth Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Computational Science, or a closely related field is required. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated expertise in several of the following areas: image reconstruction, inverse problems, data analytics, numerical optimization, physics-informed machine learning, statistical learning, uncertainty quantification, multimodal data integration, scientific visualization, high-performance computing, and reproducible research software.

Experience working with seismic, acoustic, borehole, geological, or other subsurface datasets is desirable. Strong programming skills in Python, MATLAB, C/C\+\+, Julia, or similar languages; experience with modern scientific-computing environments; and strong technical communication, scholarly writing, and collaborative research skills are also preferred. Primary work location will be University of Houston, Sugar Land campus.

MQ: Requires singular knowledge of a specialized advanced professional discipline or the highest level of general business knowledge, normally acquired through attainment of a directly job-related terminal degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed.

No Experience Is Required.

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.

The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.