August 2021 - computational.science

Call for Papers - 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) www.hipc.org/srs in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-20, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2021 will feature the 13th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2021 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); - Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); - Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and - Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); - Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); - Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); - Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and - Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); - Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); - Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and - Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); - Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); - Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); - Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; - Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and - Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); - Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and - Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); - Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); - Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); - Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and - Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2021 > Submission Opens Sep 17, 2021 > Submission Deadline Nov 1, 2021 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2021 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2021. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers/extended abstracts, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021 The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIT Jodhpur, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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Call for Participation - International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)
by Miguel Areias 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ========================================================================= The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ========================================================================= The virtual edition of ICLP 2021 will run from September 20 until September 27, 2021. The conference will be held online and we strongly encourage all interested people to register to access the event and interact with other participants. The registration conditions are available at https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.html#registration The main program is available at https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index-program.html This year's edition includes five outstanding talks by William Cohen (Google AI), John Hooker (CMU), Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Almaden), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley) and Jeff Ullman (Stanford University) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.html#keynotes and eight affiliated events https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.html#affiliatedevents Looking forward to meet you in the ICLP 2021 virtual conference. Miguel Areias (on behalf of ICLP 2021 Chairs). ========================================================================= Any additional question can be directed towards ICLP 2021 Chairs: iclp2021(a)easychair.org =========================================================================

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Deadline Extension ScalA@SC: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems - Papers due September 19
by Engelmann, Christian 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA21: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC21: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) November 19, 2021, St. Louis, MO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. With the advent of Big Data and AI in the past few years the need of such scalable mathematical methods and algorithms able to handle data and compute intensive applications at scale becomes even more important. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers at a length of at least 6 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages and not exceeding 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically at <https://submissions.supercomputing.org>. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Accepted papers will be published with the IEEE Computer Society as part of the SC21 workshop proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and present the paper at the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair, Christian Engelmann at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov>, for more information. Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative ------------------------------------------- As part of a major initiative that aims to increase the level of reproducibility and replicability of results, ScalA20 invites authors of technical papers to submit optional appendix information that can promote better reproducibility of computational results. Authors are highly encouraged to provide a 2-page Artifact Description Appendix, which will not count toward the page limit of the submission. Notes: - A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. - The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. - Appendices should not be used to circumvent the page limit. Further information about the SC Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative can be found at <https://sc21.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…>. Important Web Sites ------------------- - ScalA21 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> - ScalA21 Submissions: <https://submissions.supercomputing.org> - SC21 website: <http://sc21.supercomputing.org/> Important Dates --------------- - Full paper submission: September 19, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2021 - IEEE e-Copyright submission (firm): October 7, 2021 - Final paper submission (firm): October 11, 2021 - Workshop/conference early registration: October 15, 2021 - Workshop: 8:30am - 12pm CST, November 19, 2021 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale, including Data Science approaches in dealing with Big Data - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2023) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience (including ones enabling Big Data processing) Workshop Chairs --------------- - Vassil Alexandrov, Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair ---------------------- - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Contact at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov> Program Committee ----------------- - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Marco Berghoff, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Yasuhiro Idomura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Paul Lin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Kengo Nakajima, RIKEN, Japan - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Valerie Taylor, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. Senior Scientist & Group Leader Intelligent Systems and Facilities Group Advanced Computing Systems Research Section Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov> / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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HiPar21@SC21: Call For Participation - Submit by August 30th!
by Francesco Rizzi 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

``` *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar21--- Sunday, Nov. 14th Held in conjunction with SC21, Nov. 14-19 2021, St. Louis, USA In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net *************************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar21 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. We welcome contributions from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures, focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. Finally, we remark that a key goal of HiPar21 is to highlight not just success stories. We welcome contributions that provide compelling results and discussions on the hardest challenges to overcome leading to exascale, the role hierarchical parallelism can play in them, as well as relevant drawbacks. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Papers Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit papers submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have NOT appeared in another conference or journal, and are NOT currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers and must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ==================================================== !!New concept!!: Algorithm Brainstorming Session ==================================================== Are you working on code/algorithms and would like to see if and how it can benefit from a hierarchical approach? Or exploring state-of-the-art hierarchical approaches and leading edge programming models and desire feedback about how to approach such problems in practice? This new idea we are proposing might be of interest to you! We invite practitioners at all levels (especially encouraging participation from junior scholars) to submit a one-page summary describing an algorithm of their interest that is NOT already exploiting hierarchical parallelism and they would like to improve/change. We will select a subset of these submissions and, on the workshop day, we will host parallel breakout sessions moderated by experts in the field, to guide the brainstorming discussions on if/how one can exploit hierarchical parallelism to improve them. The submission must be 1 page and should address (at a high-level) these sections: motivation/application, core algorithm, desired scale of execution, and current bottlenecks (if any). The single page limit only applies to the core text: figures, references, and appendices do not count against the page limit. Please note that: - We will prioritize submissions by junior people. We believe this would be most beneficial as a way of allowing more experienced engineers and researchers to share their experience and approaches to solving this sort of problem. - We expect each submission to present code/algorithms that are relevant to the person/group submitting it. For example, if you are a researcher working on CFD, we expect your submission to be related to *your* code and computational issues, not on a different group's or commercial code. - We envision holding two or three parallel sessions. Each session will be approximately 45/60 mins: 10/15 mins for the author to present the algorithm and motivation, followed by the discussion until the time ends. However, we reserve to expand the number of sessions if we receive a substantial number of submissions/interest. ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar21 follows the SC21 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC21 details can be found at: https://sc21.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative. HiPar21 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from the author's responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps reviewers and readers to understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: August 30th, 2021 (AoE) Author Notification: September 13, 2021 Camera Ready: October 4, 2021 Final Program: October 9, 2021 Workshop Date: Sunday, Nov. 14th Note that SC21 is currently planning to host the conference in person, but to also include a virtual platform to support remote attendance and to enhance the in-person activities. However, at this time the virtual platform support is still unknown, and we want to explicitly state that there is always the possibility of SC21 becoming fully virtual. Therefore, please refer to the our workshop and SC21 websites for the latest information. ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - Daisy Hollman Google - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Irina Demeshko LANL - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes TU Dresden - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Nicholas Malaya AMD - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Google ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com ```

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Call for Submissions: WHPC workshop at SC'21-- in person and virtual participation
by Mariam Umar 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

SC21: WHPC Workshop - Call for lightning talks Call for lightning talks: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 8th, 2021 AOE **Women in HPC at SC21: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies** Sunday, 14th November, 9AM – 5:30PM CST Call for Participation The 12th annual international Women in HPC workshop will be held in conjunction with the Supercomputing conference (SC21), at St. Louis, MO, USA. Once again Women in HPC, our advocates, allies, supporters, and anyone interested in improving diversity across the HPC community is welcome to join us to discuss the challenges the community faces. Activities will bring together women and male allies from across the international HPC and extended community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. Previous Women in HPC workshops at SC have been great successes, with over 150 attendees in the past year, and many submissions from early/mid-career women in the past two years. As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women to present their research in the HPC, AI, ML domain to the HPC community as a short/lightning talk. This is a great opportunity to interact with leading experts and employers across the HPC community from both academia and industry and discuss your work with them. We encourage women who are in their ‘early career’ (i.e. pursuing a graduate degree or within five years of graduation) to participate, however this opportunity is open to help everyone who feels they may benefit from presenting their work, irrespective of career stage. Each submission will be reviewed by a committee and authors shall receive 2-4 sets of review comments as feedback along with instructions needed to prepare for the talk and associate materials prior to the workshop. Submissions for the talks are comprised of a two-page submission with preliminary results, in any areas including but not limited to: - High performance computing - Data science - Machine learning/AI - Big data - Languages and runtimes - Algorithms Authors will be expected to give a short lightning talk (5 minutes) at the workshop. Benefit of Participating: - Networking: build your HPC network, meet peers and potential employers - Advice and mentoring: Receive expert advice and mentorship to help prepare for your presentation, including slides, how to structure a lightning talk for effective communication and how to make the most of the networking time afterwards. Submission All submitted abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC, ML/AI can help address and any additional research highlights etc. As an author you will have the opportunity to share your work with the workshop audience in a brief ‘elevator pitch’ talk. Depending on whether the SC workshops are held in person or in a hybrid capacity this year, if accepted, those participants attending in person will have the opportunity to present a short 5-6 minute talk. Those participants attending the workshop virtually will be asked to submit a 5-6 minute video presentation ahead of time, which will be shown during the lightning talk session. Detailed instructions on how to prepare the video will be provided at a later time. To submit your extended abstract (2 page) please prepare the following and submit via the SC21 Linklings submission site <http://submissions.supercomputing.org/> – make sure your choose ‘SC21 Workshop: Women in HPC’: 1. Author/presenter information (For all authors): 1. first and last name 2. Current institution(s) 3. short biography (max 300 words) 4. company/institution 5. photograph for website publicity. 2. Lightning talk information - Title - Two-page submission with extended abstract (up to 500 words) and preliminary results Please use the standard fonts/formatting in the ACM conference proceedings template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Submissions should be a maximum of two (2) pages, not including references. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: September 8th, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: October 1st, 2021 - Camera Ready: October 7th, 2021 If you have questions please contact Mariam Umar mariam.umar(a)intel.com, or Rey Wang ruinwang(a)amazon.com. -Mariam

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Invitation to join 2021 Summer 'Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision', 25-27th August 2021
by Ioanna Koroni 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Dear Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, you are welcomed to register in the CVML e-course on 'Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision', 25-27th August 2021: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-programming-short-course-and-workshop-on-deep -learning-and-computer-vision-for-autonomous-systems-2021/ It will take place as a three-day e-course (due to COVID-19 circumstances), hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, providing a series of live lectures and workshops delivered through a tele-education platform (Zoom). They will be complemented with on-line video recorded lectures and lecture pdfs, to facilitate international participants having time difference issues and to enable you to study at own pace. You can also self-assess your knowledge, by filling appropriate questionnaires (one per lecture). You will be provided programming to improve your programming skills. You will also have accesses to tutorial exercises to better your theoretical understanding of selected CVML topics. This course is part of the very successful CVML programming short course and workshop series that took place in the last four years. Course description 'Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision' The programming short course and workshop e-course consists of 16 1-hour live lectures & workshops organized in two Parts (1 Part per day): Part A will focus on Deep Learning and GPU programming. Part B lectures will focus on deep learning algorithms for computer vision, namely on 2D object/face detection and 2D object tracking. Part C lectures will focus on autonomous UAV cinematography. Before mission execution, it is best simulated, using drone mission simulation tools. Course lectures Part A (8 hours), Deep Learning and GPU programming Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs. Deep learning for target detection. Image classification with CNNs. Target detection with PyTorch. Part B (8 hours), Deep Learning for Computer Vision Deep learning for object/face detection. 2D object tracking. PyTorch: Understand the core functionalities of an object detector. Training and deployment. OpenCV programming for object tracking. Part C (8 hours), Autonomous UAV cinematography Video summarization. UAV cinematography. Video summarization with Pytorch. Drone cinematography with Airsim. You can use the following link for course registration: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-programming-short-course-and-workshop-on-deep -learning-and-computer-vision-for-autonomous-systems-2021/ Lecture topics, sample lecture ppts and videos, self-assessment questionnaires, programming exercises and tutorial exercises can be found therein. For questions, please contact: Ioanna Koroni <koroniioanna(a)csd.auth.gr <mailto:koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr> > The short course is organized by Prof. I. Pitas, IEEE and EURASIP fellow and IEEE distinguished speaker. He is the coordinator of the EC funded International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA <http://www.i-aida.org/> ), that is co-sponsored by all 5 European AI R&D flagship projects (H2020 ICT48). He was initiator and first Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative. He is Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was Coordinator of the European Horizon2020 R&D project Multidrone. He is ranked 249-top Computer Science and Electronics scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018). He has 33800+ citations to his work and h-index 86+. AUTH is ranked 153/182 internationally in Computer Science/Engineering, respectively, in USNews ranking. Relevant links: 1) Prof. I. Pitas: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ <https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el> &hl=el 2) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Aerial-Core: https://aerial-core.eu/ 3) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Multidrone: https://multidrone.eu/ 4) International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA): http://www.i-aida.org/ 5) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project AI4Media: https://ai4media.eu/ 6) AIIA Lab: https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/ Sincerely yours Prof. I. Pitas Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Post scriptum: To stay current on CVML matters, you may want to register in the CVML email list, following instructions in: https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai gn=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai gn=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link> www.avast.com -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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ScalA@SC: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems - Papers due August 27
by Engelmann, Christian 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA21: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC21: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) November 19, 2021, St. Louis, MO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. With the advent of Big Data and AI in the past few years the need of such scalable mathematical methods and algorithms able to handle data and compute intensive applications at scale becomes even more important. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers at a length of at least 6 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages and not exceeding 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically at <https://submissions.supercomputing.org>. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Accepted papers will be published with the IEEE Computer Society as part of the SC21 workshop proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and present the paper at the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair, Christian Engelmann at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov>, for more information. Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative ------------------------------------------- As part of a major initiative that aims to increase the level of reproducibility and replicability of results, ScalA20 invites authors of technical papers to submit optional appendix information that can promote better reproducibility of computational results. Authors are highly encouraged to provide a 2-page Artifact Description Appendix, which will not count toward the page limit of the submission. Notes: - A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. - The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. - Appendices should not be used to circumvent the page limit. Further information about the SC Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative can be found at <https://sc21.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…>. Important Web Sites ------------------- - ScalA21 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> - ScalA21 Submissions: <https://submissions.supercomputing.org> - SC21 website: <http://sc21.supercomputing.org/> Important Dates --------------- - Full paper submission: August 27, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: September 27, 2021 - IEEE e-Copyright submission (firm): October 7, 2021 - Final paper submission (firm): October 11, 2021 - Workshop/conference early registration: October 15, 2021 - Workshop: 8:30am - 12pm CST, November 19, 2021 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale, including Data Science approaches in dealing with Big Data - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2023) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience (including ones enabling Big Data processing) Workshop Chairs --------------- - Vassil Alexandrov, Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair ---------------------- - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Contact at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov> Program Committee ----------------- - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Marco Berghoff, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Yasuhiro Idomura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Paul Lin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Kengo Nakajima, RIKEN, Japan - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Valerie Taylor, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. Senior Scientist & Group Leader Intelligent Systems and Facilities Group Advanced Computing Systems Research Section Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov> / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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[Bench'21 CFP Deadline - August 6, 2021, 23:59:59 AoE] - 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing)
by haotianshu＠ict.ac.cn 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'21) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html New papers deadline: August 6, 2021, 23:59:59 AoE Conference date: Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2021 (Virtual) Submission site: https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/ ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Sponsored and organized by the International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil), the Bench conference encompasses a wide range of topics in benchmarking, measurement, evaluation methods and tools. Bench’s multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for developers and researchers from the architecture, system, algorithm, and application communities to discuss practical and theoretical work covering workload characterization, benchmarks and tools, evaluation, measurement and optimization, and dataset generation. Bench’21 conference invites manuscripts describing original work in the area of benchmarking, evaluation methods and tools in Big Data, Artifical Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Computing Architectures (Call for Papers) . All accepted papers will be presented at the Bench’21 conference and will be published in a special issue of the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluation (TBench). Sponsored by BenchCouncil, Bench’21 conference will present numerous awards, including the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), the BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award ($1000)，and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). To encourage reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from all organizations, the Bench conference presents the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using publicly available benchmarks. Each article receives a $100 prize, for up to 12 articles. Call for papers ------------------------ We solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Benchmark and standard specifications, implementations, and validations: -Big Data, Artificial intelligence (AI), High performance computing (HPC), Machine learning, Warehouse-scale computing, Mobile robotics, Edge and fog computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Data management and storage, Financial, Education, Medical or other application domains. **Dataset Generation and Analysis: -Research or industry data sets, including the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements; Analyses or meta-analyses of existing data and original articles on systems, technologies and techniques that advance data sharing and reuse to support reproducible research; Evaluations of the rigor and quality of the experiments used to generate data and the completeness of the descriptions of the data; Tools generating large-scale data. **Workload characterization, quantitative measurement, design and evaluation studies: -Characterization and evaluation of Computer and communication networks, protocols and algorithms; Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks, IoT applications; Computer architectures, hardware accelerators, multi-core processors, memory systems and storage networks; HPC systems; Operating systems, file systems and databases; Virtualization, data centers, distributed and cloud computing, fog and edge computing; Mobile and personal computing systems; Energy-efficient computing systems; Real-time and fault-tolerant systems; Security and privacy of computing and networked systems; Software systems and services, and enterprise applications; Social networks, multimedia systems, web services; Cyber-physical systems. **Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms and tools: -Analytical modeling techniques and model validation; Workload characterization and benchmarking; Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis; Sustainability analysis and power management; System measurement, performance monitoring and forecasting; Anomaly detection, problem diagnosis and troubleshooting; Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling; Experimental design, statistical analysis and simulation. Measurement and evaluation: -Evaluation methodologies and metrics; Testbed methodologies and systems; Instrumentation, sampling, tracing and profiling of large-scale, real-world applications and systems; Collection and analysis of measurement data that yield new insights; Measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior, assessment of performance bottlenecks); Methods and tools to monitor and visualize measurement and evaluation data; Systems and algorithms that build on measurement-based findings; Advances in data collection, analysis and storage (e.g., anonymization, querying, sharing); Reappraisal of previous empirical measurements and measurement-based conclusions; Descriptions of challenges and future directions that the measurement and evaluation community should pursue. Important Dates ------------------------ Submission website: https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/ -Abstract registration: August 6, 2021 -Full Papers: August 6, 2021 -Notification: September 15, 2021 -Final Papers Due: October 11, 2021 Paper Submission ------------------------ The reviewing process is double-blind. Upon acceptance, papers will be scheduled for publication in the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards, and Evaluation (TBench) and presentation at the Bench'21 conference. All accepted and eligible papers will be considered, by a panel of reviewers, for the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award and the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research. Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 12 double column pages in TBench format (All research article page limits do not include references and author biographies). For a short paper, the page limit is 8 double column pages in TBench format, not including references and author biographies. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Very short papers (of fewer than 4 pages) may be moved to the back matter. Such papers will neither be available for indexing nor visible as individual papers on SpringerLink. They will, however, be listed in the Table of Contents. Submission site: https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/ TBench Latex template: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/els-cas-templates.zip Awards --------------------- * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award ($1000) - This award recognizes and encourages superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in the broad field of benchmarks, data, standards, evaluations, and optimizations community. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers). - BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA Arne J. Berre, SINTEF Digital, Norway Program Chairs Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Germany Chen Liu, Clarkson University, USA Special Session Chair Xiaoyi Lu, The University of California, Merced, USA Publications Chair Chunjie Luo, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Registration Chair Fanda Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Technical Support Chair Ke Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Publicity Chairs Chen Zheng, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Zhen Jia, Amazon, USA Biwei Xie, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Pengfei Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China Roberto V. Zicari, Z-Inspection® Initiative， Yrkeshögskolan Arcada, Helsinki， Seoul National University, South Korea Web Chair Guoxin Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bench Steering Committees Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University Felix, Wolf, TU Darmstadt Xiaoyi Lu, University of California, Merced Wanling Gao, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCAS Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences &BenchCouncil Technical Program Committee Ben Blamey, Uppsala University Bin Ren, William & Mary Biwei Xie, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academic of Science Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Chen Zheng, Institute of software, Chinese Academy of Sciences David Bermbach, Technische Universität Berlin, Mobile Cloud Computing Research Group Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences K. Selçuk Candan, Arizona State University Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mai Zheng, Iowa State University Mario Marino, Leeds Beckett University Matthew Bachstein, University of Tennessee Miaoqing Huang, University of Arkansas Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Rui Ren, Lenovo Research Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Sascha Hunold, TU Wien Shu Yin, ShanghaiTech University Todor Ivanov, Lead Consult Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Wanling Gao, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Woongki Baek, UNIST Xiaokun Yang, University of Houston-Clear Lake Xiaoyi Lu, University of California, Merced Yu Chen, Binghamton University Yunyou Huang, Guangxi Normal University Zhen Jia, Amazon Zhihui Du, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Job Openings: Research Assistant Professor (3 vacancies) at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, and is now seeking outstanding applicants for the following positions. Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science (3 vacancies) (PR0166/19-20) The positions are created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointees will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty in the Department. They are also expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department's key research areas: (i) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; (ii) Big Data and Data Management; (iii) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; and (iv) Distributed Systems and Networking. These key research areas have a special thematic focus on (a) Health Informatics and (b) Security and Privacy-aware Computing related applications. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of two to three years. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk) More information about the Department can be found on its website at https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk <http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/>. *Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* Application Procedure: Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably *three* best ones out of their most recent publications/works. Those should also request *two* referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Human Resources Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://hro.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. Closing date: *Review of applications is on-going until the positions are filled.* URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=540

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