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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Postdoctoral Fellow in machine learning, big data, and
distributed computing for fluorescence nanoscopy: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The Department of Physics and Technology is
pleased to announce a vacant position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
optics group in connection with the recently funded BioTek 2021 and Nano2021
projects from Research Council of Norway (RCN). These projects pertain
improvement of throughput of modern nanoscopy approaches, specifically </span><span lang="NO-BOK"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4313" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">chip-based nanoscopy</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> and multiple signal classification algorithm
(</span><span lang="NO-BOK"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13752" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">MUSICAL</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">), and follow up by application specific big data
handling and machine learning such as </span><span lang="NO-BOK"><a href="http://domore.no/" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">DoMore</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">. The appointment is for two years and there
is opportunity to apply for overseas visiting fellowship for 3-12 months in
addition to RCN. The candidate should therefore be open for overseas
fellowship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The fellow will be a part of the team led by
Assoc. Prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia and Assoc. Prof. Krishna Agarwal. The
position pertains employing of distributed computing, big data, and machine
learning for improving the computational throughput of the nanoscopy by 100 to
1000 times from the current state, which is based on single thread execution of
computational nanoscopy and absence of data intelligence at present. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The postdoctoral
research fellow will have the following goals: </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">A</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">pply
distributed computing on MUSICAL to accelerate MUSICAL by approximately 100
times</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Design
big data handling, storage, and transport approaches for extremely large
nanoscopy images (10 to 100 GBs per image)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Design
and organize data curation for region-of-interest segmentation and sample
classification in connection to disease and its severity</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Design
distributed computing machine learning approaches for the above problems</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The project needs the fellow
to collaborate actively with biologists having diverse expertise in order to
design biology experiments that can provide sufficiently valid datasets for
supervised learning or unsupervised learning. In addition the fellow will also
have opportunity to work with other groups members in optics and physics. The
fellow will additionally be required to coordinate with the bioimaging
scientists and biologists for coordinating the data acquisition. Further, being
able to communicate data-centric needs and machine learning parlances in simple
terms to non-experts on the topics, good communication skills and ability to
explain technical things in laymen terms is important. Since the amount of data
required for such problems is huge, distributed computing and big data expertise
is quite critical. The project’s research outcomes will lead to high impact
publications as well as potential commercialization. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Contact</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">For more information about the
position and UiT, please contact Assoc. Prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia </span><span lang="NO-BOK"><a href="mailto:Balpreet.singh.ahluwalia@uit.no" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Balpreet.singh.ahluwalia@uit.no</span></a></span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">or Assoc. Prof. Krishna
Agarwal by email </span><span lang="NO-BOK"><a href="mailto:krishna.agarwal@uit.no" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">krishna.agarwal@uit.no</span></a></span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size:11pt;color:blue"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">or telephone +47
776 45157. Additionally one can visit group page <a href="https://www.3dnanoscopy.com/" style="color:blue">https://www.3dnanoscopy.com/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Qualifications</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The position requires a </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Norwegian doctoral degree
in optical microscopy,<span style="color:red"> </span>or a corresponding
foreign doctoral degree recognised as equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree.
Priority will be given to candidates who have completed their doctoral degree
no more than five years before the application deadline unless special
circumstances exist.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> Having a PhD degree is required before commencement for the position.
If you are in the process of completing your PhD, you must document that you
have submitted your PhD thesis or expected date of Ph.D thesis submission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The main qualifications<a name="_GoBack"></a>
and technical <b><i>requirements</i></b> that fellow should have are:</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Prior experience of at least two years in distributed computing, machine
learning, computer vision, and/or big data.</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Experience in more than two diverse machine learning problems such as
ROI segmentation, classification, object or template detection, event/anomaly
detection in images</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Publication record illustrating first author publication of experimental
research in tier 1 journals/conferences in the field of pattern recognition,
machine learning, computer vision, distributed computing, or big data</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Record of packaging, releasing, or supporting software packages/source
codes for research communities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">In addition, it is <b><i>desirable</i></b> that the
candidate demonstrates some of the below mentioned skills:</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Prior experience with medical images, microscopy images, or fluorescence
images</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Exposure to optics, bioimaging, or technopreneurship</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Established record of collaboration between two or more teams</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Self-motivation, enthusiasm, and independence</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Good written and verbal communication skills in English</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Excellent work ethic and commitment to the job</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Creativity, ability to think outside the box, problem solving
orientation are extremely desirable</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 22.5pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Experience in mentorship, leadership, multi-disciplinary research, and
international collaborations are desirable</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Application</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Your application
must include: </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Application letter
describing </span></li>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">why the
candidate considers oneself suitable for the position</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">what
motivates the candidate to apply for the position and what the candidate
expects from this position</span></li>
</ul>
<li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">CV, including
the projects undertaken</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Full list of
publications, including software releases. Also indicate </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">which three
publications the candidate considers the best output and why.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;color:red"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Expected start date of the position</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">: <b>1<sup>st</sup>
April, 2019</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Salary</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Remuneration of Postdoctoral
Fellow positions are in salary code 1352, and normally start at salary grade 57
on the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt">pay
scale for Norwegian state employees</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">.<span style="color:red"> </span>There is a 2%
deduction for contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Other
information</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://en.uit.no/startsida" style="color:blue">UiT the Arctic University of
Norway</a></span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:blue"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">with its main campus located in the quaint little city of Tromsø is the
northernmost university in the world. It houses the <a href="https://en.uit.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/gruppe?p_document_id=398136" style="color:blue"><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-style:normal">optics group</span></a>
in the Department of Physics and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology,
at the main campus of UiT. The optics group has experienced a great surge in
research, thanks to a constant flow of Horizon2020 funding through ERC and
MSCA-IF projects and funding from research council of Norway through diverse
projects. The group members represent various disciplines like optics,
photonics, fabrication, biology, mathematics, sensing, microscopy, nanoscopy,
chemistry, computer engineering, electronic instrumentation, etc. The group’s
core research activity targets development of cutting-edge technologies in
nano-photonics, optics-based climate sensing, microscopy, and optical and
computational nanoscopy.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The nature of the project and
the job scope is that it allows an all rounded development of the fellow. The
fellow will be encouraged and supported to build his/her resume towards their
ambition in academic, technopreneurial, or main stream industrial career. The
fellowship also offers opportunity of mentoring PhD students in the team and
involvement in teaching, if it is of interest to the fellow. There is an
opportunity for the fellow to build his/her research network through inheriting
the collaborations of the group. Major collaborators, beyond UiT and directly
relevant to the project, include USoton (UK), NTNU (Norway), UiO (Norway), IIT
(Italy), IFOM (Italy), University of Campagnia (Italy), EMBL (Germany), NUS
(Singapore), ASTAR (Singapore), BU (China), Sun Yat Sen University (China), and
IIT (India). The fellow will also be encouraged to become a member of <a href="https://digitallifenorway.org/" style="color:blue">Digital Life Norway</a> (DLN), a national
platform for multi-disciplinary research with life sciences as a focus. DLN
offers several courses and career development programs, which the fellow can
participate in as a student or an instructor.<i></i></span></p></div>