Background

The Network Science Group at UCSB is looking for a Research Scientist with expertise in Databases and Data mining with emphasis on graphs and network science. The position is supported by a recent grant from the Army on Information Networks, a part of the Information Networks Academic Research Center (INARC) under its Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA). Other participants in the information network center effort are the University of Illinois, IBM, City University of New York, and a number of subawardees.  

The Army has also awarded three other academic research centers under the NS CTA: Social Networks, Communication Networks, and Interdisciplinary Networks, to integrate the work of the three network-type-specific centers. The four Centers will work in close collaboration with each other and with Government researchers.

The grand challenge of NS CTA is to develop science that enables the modeling, design, analysis, and prediction of behaviors of networks, and to develop fundamental underpinnings to enable humans and networks of disparate information sources to discover and optimize information and knowledge from the full range of structured and unstructured sources.

Job description

The duties of the research scientist will be to systematically develop the foundation needed for information networks including:

• entity identification, information extraction, and data integration and uncertainty characterization of multimodal data;
• construction and access of information network systems;
• structural and statistical analysis of networks;
• knowledge discovery and dissemination in information networks, and;
• robustness, reliability, and trustworthiness of information.

Besides original research on the above topics, the research scientist will also be responsible for coordinated research across the various research groups within the information network center and across the four centers.  In particular, the scientist will work directly with data mining and database researchers at UIUC and IBM.

The UCSB team includes Ambuj Singh (Computer Science, Principal Investigator), Xifeng Yan (Computer Science), Tobias Höllerer (Computer Science), and B.S. Manjunath (Electrical & Computer Engineering).

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in computer science, demonstrated background in data analysis, data mining, and good communication skills. The length of employment can be up to five years.  To apply, please send resume to

Xifeng Yan (xyan at cs.ucsb.edu) or Ambuj Singh (ambuj at cs.ucsb.edu)

Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106