Project Title: PostDoc position in user-centred design for visualization of effective search-profiling tools Location: Monash University, Australia Annual Salary: $AUD75-80k (~$US70-74k) Start Date: early 2015 Duration: one year Our project is to build interactive visualizations of the solution process of combinatorial optimization to support profiling and development of models and solvers. Effective and easy to use tools for optimization allow us to better use our limited resources, which benefits our industry, our health system, our security and our environment. Currently solvers for optimization problems are very much "black boxes" and it is difficult for people trying to model their problems to understand how to debug the model or to give hints to help the solvers. As a result there is a need for effective profiling tools to "open up" these black boxes. We have a lot of expertise in the solver and modelling technologies and are working to develop such profiling tools. However, since these tools are very much about placing a "human in the loop" of the model-development and optimization process, we are interested in adopting a user-centred design approach. There are key questions in understanding how people perceive these models and how the solver's progress can be usefully visualized in a way that is compatible with that perception. We have funding for a postdoc with expertise in visualization or human-computer interaction to join us in this research. We are interested in people with diverse backgrounds. Somebody who is less technical/mathematical but has good design or HCI skills may well be a good fit. contact: Tim Dwyer, tim.dwyer@monash.edu -- Dr Tim Dwyer BSc BCS(Hons) PhD Senior Lecturer and Larkins Fellow Caulfield School of Information Technology Monash University, Victoria, Australia Office Address: Building H, 6.36, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Rd Caulfield East Mobile: 0481 240 767 (from overseas: +61 481 240 767) Postal Address: Faculty of Information Technology PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia