[Asis-l] Additional Information Re: Ph.D position in biodiversity informatics

[Hong cui]

To clarify, we are looking for a Ph.D candidate who is interested in
information organization, especially automated semantic markup and
controlled vocabulary/ontology development, in a scientific domain, for
example biology. It normally takes 4-5 years to complete a Ph.D degree in
SIRLS.

This is not a post-doc position. Besides the skill set listed in the
original announcement (see below), the candidate must have a undergraduate
or a graduate degree, or equivalent,  in science.

More information about the project can be found at
http://sirls.arizona.edu/cui/project
More information about the Ph.D program at SIRLS can be found at
http://sirls.arizona.edu/program/phd

Thanks for your attention.

Hong

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Hong cui <hong1.cui at gmail.com> wrote:

> PhD Position : Biodiversity Informatics
>
> A PhD position is available at the School of Information Resources and
> Library Science (SIRLS), University of Arizona. The successful candidate
> will work on an interdisciplinary project investigating automated methods
> for semantic annotation of morphological descriptions of various taxon
> groups and developing software supporting automated identification key
> generation, domain ontology construction, and biosystematics authoring and
> publishing. The PhD position is fully-funded by an NSF grant and SIRLS.
> Candidates should possess a degree in systematics biology or equivalent,
> have experience programming in Java and Perl, and have basic knowledge in
> Semantic Web standards, such as XML and RDF. Knowledge in machine learning
> and/or natural language processing is desirable but not required.
>
> Interested applicant should first send a cover letter and CV with the
> contact information of two academic referees to Dr Hong Cui at SIRLS
> hongcui at email.arizona.edu by August 1, 2009.
>
> Hong Cui, Ph.D, MCS
> Assistant Professor, Information Technologies
> School of Information Resources and Library Science
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ
>
>
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