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<h3>Research Assistantship Opportunities<br>
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There are multiple opportunities for funded work opportunities in
the Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory (DataSys),
starting in the summer of 2011; funding is available for 5 years,
but is contingent on good progress towards a PhD degree. If you
think you meet the <a
href="http://www.iit.edu/csl/cs/programs/grad/admission.shtml">
admission requirements</a> to the PhD program in Computer Science,
and have a desire to pursue research in distributed systems working
on real problems on some of the worlds largest systems (e.g. <a
href="http://www.top500.org/system/9158">IBM BlueGene/P</a>, <a
href="http://www.top500.org/system/10184">Cray XT5</a>, <a
href="http://www.top500.org/system/9854">Sun Constelation</a>, <a
href="http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/">IBM Blue Waters</a>,
<a href="https://www.teragrid.org/web/about/index">TeraGrid</a>, <a
href="http://magellan.alcf.anl.gov/">Magellan</a>, <a
href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon</a>, <a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/projects/index.html">current
projects at DataSys</a>), please send your resume/CV and a
personal statement to Ioan Raicu at <a
href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a>. Evaluation
of applications will start on March 1st, 2011, and will continue
until the positions are filled. Please make sure to use the
following prefix to your email subject "[DATASYS RA]". Also, in your
email body, please include the following information (even if it is
redundant from the resume/CV):
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Research interests (<30 words)</li>
<li>MS Degree (if applicable), major, GPA, dates, university name,
university city, university country</li>
<li>BS Degree, major, GPA, dates, university name, university
city, university country</li>
<li>GRE Scores</li>
<li>TOEFL Scores (if applicable)</li>
<li>Coursework (professor's name, dates taken, grade received):
<ul>
<li>Operating Systems</li>
<li>Networking</li>
<li>Architecture</li>
<li>Distributed Systems</li>
<li>Programming Languages</li>
<li>Compilers</li>
<li>Data-Structures</li>
<li>Algorithms</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Programming Languages (name, years of experience, numbers of
line of code in the largest project worked on in each language)</li>
<li>Publications (posters, workshop papers, conference papers,
journal papers)</li>
<li>Research experience: institution, mentor name, and project
title</li>
<li>Relevant work experience (institution, position title, dates)</li>
<li>Names, positions, and affiliations of people providing
recommendation letters</li>
<li>How did you hear about this position?</li>
</ul>
For more information about these positions, please see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/jobs/index.html">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/jobs/index.html</a>, or contact Ioan Raicu at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a>.
<h3>DataSys</h3>
<p>The DataSys Lab is a research lab in the CS department at IIT,
being lead by Dr. Ioan Raicu. The DataSys Lab conducts research in
various areas of distributed systems with an emphasis on
designing, implementing, and evaluating systems, protocols, and
middleware with the goal of supporting applications at extreme
scales. The lab's mission is to investigate challenging,
high-impact research projects to support both compute and
data-intensive distributed computing on a variety of systems, from
many-core systems, clusters, grids, clouds, and supercomputers.
The DataSys Lab has strong ties with the <a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Escs/home/home.html"> Scalable
Computing Software Laboratory</a> at IIT, and the <a
href="http://dsl-wiki.cs.uchicago.edu/index.php/Main_Page">
Distributed Systems Laboratory</a> at <a
href="http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/">University of Chicago</a> and
<a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/index.php">Argonne National
Laboratory</a>. </p>
<h3>Computer Science at IIT</h3>
<p>The <a href="http://www.iit.edu/csl/cs/">Computer Science (CS)
department</a> at <a href="http://www.iit.edu/">Illinois
Institute of Technology (IIT)</a> offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.
degrees in computer science and has research strengths in
distributed systems, information retrieval, computer networking,
intelligent information systems and algorithms. IIT is located
within 10 minutes of downtown Chicago, and is a dynamic and
innovative institution. The department has strong connections to <a
href="http://www.fnal.gov/">Fermi</a> and <a
href="http://www.anl.gov/">Argonne National Laboratories</a>,
and to local industry. An interesting short video clip about IIT
can be found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCg-pNGU54">here</a>.
<a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/rankings/CRA-CS-Rankings-1995-2010.htm">
The CS graduate program at IIT ranks 82 out of 126 in the latest
CRA Computer Science Graduate Program Rankings.</a></p>
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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Cel: 1-847-722-0876
Office: 1-312-567-5704
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/">http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/</a>
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