(DBWORLD) Faculty Positions

Venkat N. Gudivada (gudivada@umr.edu)
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:51:38 -0600 (CST)

FACULTY POSITIONS - COMPUTER SCIENCE

Joint Faculty Appointments in Computer Science
at
The University of Southwestern Louisiana and
Southern University- Baton Rouge

The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana (USL) and the Department of Computer Science at
Southern University-Baton Rouge (Southern) invite applications for two
tenure-track positions at the level of assistant or associate professor in
computer science. These positions are made available through support from
the Louisiana Board of Regents' Joint Faculty Appointments Program (JFAP);
the new faculty members will be designated Louisiana Board of Regents'
EPSCoR Assistant/Associate Professors. Louisiana's JFAP has received strong
support from the National Science Foundation, and has been hailed as having
the potential to become a model program for the Nation. The administrative
plan ensures that both faculty members will enjoy full association with both
partnering institutions. The startup packages will include laboratory
equipment, two years' support for summer salaries, research assistants, and
travel costs to professional meetings. USL and Southern are linked to each
other, as well as to other research universities in the state, by the new
Louisiana Audio-Visual Research Network, facilitating distance learning and
remote collaboration.

USL is the largest campus in the University of Louisiana system, and is a
Doctoral-II university. According to the 1995 National Research Council study,
CACS ranks seventh in program effectiveness and faculty quality among all
Ph.D. granting computer science departments in all Doctoral-II universities.
In a report published in the December 1996 issue of the Communications of
the ACM, USL is ranked 35th among all Ph.D. granting computer science
departments. USL is located in Lafayette, the hub of French Louisiana, which
is known for its Cajun culture. Lafayette is located about 52 miles west of
Baton Rouge, and about 129 miles west of New Orleans. Southern University is
the largest historical black university in Louisiana, and is located in Baton
Rouge, the state capital. South Louisiana is renowned for its joie de vivre,
which has given it an international reputation.

We are recruiting two candidates who have Ph.D. degrees in computer science
or in a closely related area by the date of appointment, and who have a
demonstrated commitment to research and teaching. The teaching load is one
course per semester, plus a continuing research seminar. The new faculty
members will primarily be associated with the Media Technology Laboratory at
USL and with the Multimedia Laboratory at Southern. General computing
facilities at CACS include a network of Sun workstations, with Unix as the
primary operating system. Additional facilities are available in the research
laboratories in: automated reasoning, computer vision and pattern recognition,
intelligent robotic systems, software research, and VLSI sytems.

The broad areas of specialization are in multimedia information retrieval, or
multimedia signal processing and data communications, or graphics and data
visualization. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in
some aspects of complex, distributed software systems research and development
(such as in object-oriented programming, network protocols, intelligent agents,
multimedia indexing, softbot development, networked database interoperability,
communication security, or data compression). The successful candidates are
expected to contribute to the labs goal of developing
into a highly competitive research team that can engage in comprehensive
studies of issues arising in the context of heterogeneous, networked
information sources and can provide practical solutions to large scale,
real-life applications.

Additional information about these positions can be found at
http://extreme.cacs.usl.edu/~cice/jfap.html. Interested individuals can direct
their inquiries to:

Professor Vijay Raghavan
Center for Advanced Computer Studies
The University of Southwestern Louisiana
P.O. Box 44330
Lafayette, LA 70504-4330
Phone: 318-482-6603
Fax: 318-482-5791
Email: raghavan@cacs.usl.edu

or

Professor Erold Hinds
Computer Science Department
Southern University-Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA 70813-0400
Phone: 504-771-2060
Fax: 504-771-4223
Email: ewhinds@aol.com

Applicants should send a complete vita, samples of publications, three names
and addresses of references, and a brief description of research interests to
Professor Raghavan at USL. For full consideration, applications should be
submitted by the closing date of 15 April 1997. USL and Southern University
are both EEO/AA employers.

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