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Cyberscience Cluster Hire
Areas of Priority

• Cyberscience of the earth – We seek candidates who develop new data-and computation-intensive techniques to address critical problems in the Earth sciences, with alignment to initiatives such as NSF's EarthCube. Participating departments include, but are not limited to *Geography, *Geosciences, Meteorology, and Civil and Environmental Engineering.
• Cyber-enabled engineering – We seek candidates who can advance methods and systems for data mining, optimization, control, and cloud computing, with applications to manufacturing, materials, healthcare and energy systems. Participating departments include, but are not limited to Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.
• Cyber-enabled sciences – We seek candidates who specialize in advancing scalable techniques for multi-dimensional data mining and search, and multi-scale modeling and simulation, towards deeper insights in areas such as cosmic surveys and simulations, high throughput materials discovery, and effective healthcare through metabolomics bioinformatics. Participating departments include *Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, *Biology, *Chemistry, *Mathematics, Physics, and *Statistics.

CyberScience Initiative

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the Cyberscience Task Force Report

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• Executive Summary (PDF)

Cyberscience Cluster Hire

Multiple Faculty Appointments in Computation– and Data–enabled Science and Engineering

Penn State is embarking on a transformative cluster hiring initiative in cyberscience – computation- and data-enabled science and engineering – to lead through cyber-enabled innovation in interdisciplinary research. This cross-college endeavor will coordinate multiple faculty appointments to develop new functional capabilities centered on data, models and simulation for deeper insights into the critical problems in science and engineering.

We seek outstanding faculty who can work across disciplines and in a team to advance algorithms, software and theory to exploit "Big Data" and “Big Simulations” for scientific discovery and engineering design in a variety of disciplines.

We plan to make 12 tenure-track appointments at all levels from Assistant and Associate Professors through Full Professors and Endowed Chairs. We anticipate that many candidates will have joint appointments across departments and colleges. These positions feature outstanding research space, competitive start-up packages and state-of-the-art shared instrumentation for computation- and data-enabled research.

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