January 2018 - Infovis

Internship positions at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge
by Daniele Quercia 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

Dear all, The Social Dynamics team at Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is looking for summer interns to work on the following internship projects (also available on http://researchswinger.org/hiring.html) 1. You are what You Eat - Study food consumption data and their relationship with people well-being. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, machine learning, network analysis. 2. The Social Life of Cities - Investigate how the urban space shapes our social relationships. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, GIS tools, network analysis. 3. The Health of the City - Analyse fine-grained health data at city scale over time. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science. Experience with Python, machine learning, time-series analysis, large-scale data analysis. 4. Your New Quantified Self - Study multiple signals from quantified-self devices. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python and machine learning 5. "This is not gonna help you" - Build web apps to collect psychological perceptions of people. BSc or above in Computer Science. Experience with frontend (HTML5, Javascript, D3) and backend (Django, SQL) development, design of simple Facebook apps. Interest in Computational Social Science. 6. Visual AI - Creating new beautiful and elegant techniques to display and visualize the results of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. Experience with web design and frontend development (HTML5, Javascript, D3) To learn more about our research, please check our sites - researchswinger.org, lajello.com, and goodcitylife.org If you would like to apply, please send me your CV by *January 20th*. I would be happy to answer any question. Please feel free to forward this call to anybody who might be interested. cheers, - daniele

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26.WSCG conference - Call for Papers - EXTENDED - (includes GraVisMa & HCI-Europe confs.)
by Vaclav Skala 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

>> Call for Papers and Conferences Announcement >> WSCG 2018, GraVisMa 2018, HCI-Europe 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2018 (held annually since 1992) 26. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2018 page When: May 28 – June 1, 2018 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (the City of Beer), close to Prague Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport Includes special workshop (common for WSCG and GraVisMa) on: Radial Basis Function: Theory and Application in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Computational (including scientific computing, ODE, PDE, interpolation, approximation, graphics, vision, visualization etc.) > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- WSCG 2018 26. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: February 27, 2018 (EXTENDED) GraVisMa 2018 5. Conference on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Mathematics Computational and Applied http://www.GraVisMa.eu Submission: March 20, 2018 (Extended) HCI-Europe 2018 3. Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2018 https://www.hci-europe.eu Submission: March 20, 2018 (Extended) Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: infovis(a)infovis.org --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Faculty Positions at NYU in Data Science (VIS included) (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Level)
by Enrico Bertini 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi all, NYU is hiring in Data Science at all professorship levels (assistant, associate and full). Candidates working in visualization (especially those with a strong background in data science) are very welcome. One call is for a positions across the Center of Data Science ( https://cds.nyu.edu) and Tandon School of Engineering ( http://engineering.nyu.edu) and one for Tandon only. New faculty can join the "Visualization Imaging and Data Analysis (VIDA)" lab, which already hosts three vis-oriented faculty members (Claudio Silva, Juliana Freire and Enrico Bertini). New York and NYU have a very vibrant data science and visualization community with endless opportunities for impactful research and collaboration across NYU schools (medicine, biology, media/journalism, art, urban science, finance, neuroscience, education, etc.), public organizations and businesses. To apply you can follow these links: - Associate/Full Professor, Data Science: https://apply. interfolio.com/47433 - Data Science Assistant/Associate Faculty (CSE/CDS): https://apply. interfolio.com/47451 For more information feel free to contact me (enrico.bertini(a)nyu.edu) and/or Claudio Silva (csilva(a)nyu.edu) We'd be happy to provide more information to interested candidates from the visualization community. All the best! -- Enrico Bertini, Assistant Professor Dep. of Computer Science and Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering 2 Metrotech Center, 11201 Brooklyn, NY (10th floor) Phone: +1 646 997 3731 <(646)%20997-3731>

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