France : PhD position in Visual Analytics in Marseille, South of France

Incremental computation and interactive visualization of dependencies and anomalies discovery in extremely large databases.

Supervision: Laure Berti-Equille (IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) and Noël Novelli (UAM-Université d’Aix-Marseille)

Deadline: 08/20/2011

Project Description:
In databases of extreme size from terabytes to petabytes of data, the data exploration and discovery of interesting patterns, dependencies or anomalies is extremely challenging. Current data mining methods (e.g. for dependency inference, TANE, FUN, FastFDs) may be efficient for small to middle-size databases as long as the dataset can fit in memory but, for extra-large databases, they fall short and are completely inoperative due to memory overload. The interactive exploration of such datasets requires incremental and visual computing with a careful management of memory transfers and the repartition of the computations on-the-fly on several processing units (GPU, CPU). Additionally, advanced artifacts of visual analytics should be offered to the users, so they can easily understand the relationships discovered from the data and interactively refine the grain of the analysis. The successful candidate will examine these requirements and propose new incremental and visual mining algorithms and develop a visualization tool to test on extra-large scientific datasets in astronomy and environmental sciences.

Requirements: The PhD candidate should have or expect to obtain a MSc or equivalent in computer science. The following qualities are desirable: strong interests in data mining or statistics, information visualization and HCI; excellent record of academic and/or professional achievement; strong programming skills; good written and spoken communication skills in French or English.

Further information: The student will be based in the Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille (LIF, France) in the BDAA Team.
He/she will be supervised by Dr Laure Berti-Equille (IRD) and Dr Noel Novelli.

The studentship is funded for 3 years (currently 1400 euros per month - net income). The position is a salaried employment with the right to social benefits and paid vacations.

Application: If you are interested and believe that you qualify, please send your application to Laure Berti-Equille (laure.berti@ird.fr) or Prof Noel Novelli (noel.novelli@lif.univ-mrs.fr), before August 20, 2011. Please include:
- Curriculum Vitae with the names and contact details of at least 2 references
- A list of exams and grades obtained
- A cover letter explaining how your skills and research interests fit the project.

Application Deadline : 20 August 2011

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