Associate Professor & Director | Air Transportation, Aviation, UAV, UAM, AAM, Homeland Security, Education Analytics | Modeling Simulation Optimization Machine Learning AI
The Analytics, Decision, and Control Lab (ADC Lab) at UCF is hiring. Through generous support from NSF, ONR, AFRL, NASA, and DHS we are actively hiring for multiple post-doc (immediate) and grad student (summer/fall) positions. One project we are hiring for includes online monitoring and estimation of threat-levels towards government officials. Using NLP and Machine Learning techniques we are developing online monitors to estimate the threat-level facing government officials (esp. election officials). Related extensions of this homeland security research seeks to assess the threat-risk to other targeted groups and to map the online space of violent anti-government groups and violent hate groups. Those with a strengths/background in NLP should apply; understanding of US politics and extremism is a bonus. (This is a high-exposure project great for a post-doc with interests in NLP and homeland security) Others include (see other posts): * Optimal teaming of human-robot systems * Cognitive monitors for human-AI systems in aviation If you are interested in one of these positions please email adan.vela@ucf.edu with a copy of your resume and unofficial transcripts. Or if you know someone that might be interested in a position please share (like and share!). Traditionally successful researchers have a background in controls and dynamic systems, operations research, machine learning, and/or applied math & probability/statistics. As an interdisciplinary lab we welcome candidates form across engineering, math/prob, and CS disciplines. For those applying to Post-doc positions with the end-goal of an academic posting our team of faculty will actively support you in this endeavor through a "post-doc first" posture, while actively facilitating connections and meaningful partnerships with our CoPIs at Gatech, Nebraska, Temple, and elsewhere. Support does not just come from project PIs but the whole IEMS department - through such joint efforts we have successfully placed a number of post-docs in tenure-track faculty positions.