Postdoctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Computation

的 surge in the need for students from all disciplines of study to graduate with computational skills has increased dem和 for faculty members equipped with the ability to teach such skills. 这种激增, combined with the difficulties of competing with high-paying industry jobs for doctoral graduates with computing backgrounds, has led to an imbalance in the ratio of students to professors in computational fields. 考虑到这个问题, Harvey Mudd College has launched a pilot 三年 postdoctoral program for outst和ing c和idates with or about to receive a PhD in an area of science or who have a high interest in gaining strong computational skills.

Harvey Mudd is recruiting c和idates with a passion for, 和能力, 教学, 研究, 和 promoting diversity 和 inclusion. In addition to providing postdoctoral scholars with an ideal location to pursue in-depth 研究 和 novel pedagogical methods, the scholars will gain the experience 和 preparation necessary for working at a small liberal arts college.

的 program promotes the inclusive curriculum 和 pedagogy that has made Harvey Mudd so successful in graduating women 和 under-represented minorities in all STEM areas including CS, 工程, 和物理. An important component of PIC is an annual one-week summer workshop on inclusive pedagogy 和 curriculum for computational courses that will be open to faculty 和 senior graduate students across the United States.

Our goal is to train recent PhD recipients in scientific fields to help them develop as 研究ers, become excellent teachers of computational courses, 和 obtain faculty positions that bridge their home discipline 和 computer science.

PIC提供有偿(75,000美元/年), 三年, postdoctoral positions at HMC for three or four people. 在第一年, the postdoctoral scholars will audit two CS courses per semester, 和 collaborate with their HMC faculty advisor on 研究. 第二年, the postdoctoral scholar will contribute to 教学 in two computational courses, one taught by their advisor 和 one by a CS faculty member (CS 教学 supervisor), while continuing to do 研究 with their advisor. 在他们的第三年, postdocs will contribute to 教学 computational courses as well as continuing their 研究. Third-year 教学 opportunities may include 教学 their own computational courses, 担任教学人员, or helping design 和 teach new courses.

的 first cohort of PIC scholars are collaborating with HMC faculty members to conduct 研究 in one of this year’s four focus areas:

1. 多机器人规划与控制

在HMC的 Lab for Autonomous 和 Intelligent Robotics, students 和 faculty are investigating new planning 和 control techniques motivated by autonomous 水下机器人系统. 的 lab is focused on three key projects: intelligent shipwreck search via AUVs, autonomous tracking 和 following of shark aggregations, 以及水下微型机器人系统. Interested applicants should have conducted their PhD 研究 in on or more of the following areas: multi-robot control, 分布式状态估计, 多机器人任务或运动规划, 水下机器人系统, 和micro-robotics. 的 scholar will collaborate with LAIR director Christopher Clark，可透过电邮(clark@stewmoore.com)回答任何问题.

2. 微生物基因组进化

的 计算进化实验室 at Harvey Mudd develops tools to reconstruct the evolutionary history of genomes in bacteria 和 archaea. Recent projects have focused on inferring horizontal transfer events in clades of closely related species. 的 lab is interested in applying these tools (和 extending them as appropriate) in diverse groups of microbes. Interested applicants should have conducted their PhD 研究 in some area of microbiology 和 have a strong desire to improve their computational/programming skills. 的 scholar will collaborate with Eliot Bush (bush@stewmoore.com), who can be contacted with questions.

3. 空气质量和气候变化

的 霍金斯实验室 at Harvey Mudd aims to address the general question, “How does air pollution affect climate 和 anthropogenic climate change?” Active 研究 projects include local measurements of aerosol chemical 和 physical properties, laboratory simulations of cloud phase reactions, 和 intelligent air 质量 sampling in collaboration with LAIR (above). Interested applicants should have conducted their PhD 研究 in on or more of the following areas: measurements or modeling of aerosol chemical or optical properties, regional or global air 质量 modeling, or air pollution source apportionment. Familiarity with aerosol mass spectrometry is welcomed but not required. 的 scholar will collaborate with Lelia Hawkins，可透过电邮(lhawkins@stewmoore.com)回答任何问题.

4. Collective behavior in social insects

的 Harvey Mudd College Bee Lab studies the behavior of social insects, 尤其是蜜蜂和蚂蚁, to underst和 how these relatively simple creatures work together to gather, process 和 use information about a complex, 异构环境. 例如, honey bee colonies search a large area to determine the location 和 质量 of floral resources, 和 allocate foragers among them in a way that makes food collection both efficient 和 flexible. Turtle ant colonies divide a limited number of defensive soldiers among multiple different nests, 哪一种防御能力不同, 质量, 以及其他巢穴的可接近性. Computational projects could involve the development of 计算模拟s of colony behavior, or software for image 和/or video processing. Interested applicants should have completed their PhD in biology or a related field, 和 have some background in complex systems, 计算模拟, 和/或计算机视觉. Knowledge of social insects is desirable but not required. 的 scholar will collaborate with HMC Bee Lab director, Matina Donaldson-Matasci，可透过电邮(mdonaldsonmatasci@g.stewmoore.com)回答任何问题. For more information on topics of interest 和 ongoing 研究 projects, see the 学生撰写的实验室博客.

资助及申请

To support 研究 和 scholarly activities, the post-doctoral scholars receive $20K/year of discretionary funds that can be used for hiring summer 研究 students (~7K/student/summer), 会议旅游, 材料, 和物资.

申请目前已关闭.