[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc opportunity

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: 	[SIAM-OPT] Fwd: postdoc opportunity
Date: 	Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:33:18 -0500
From: 	Laura Balzano <girasole at umich.edu>
To: 	Pekka Orponen <pekka.orponen at aalto.fi>
CC: 	Optimization SIAG mailing list <siam-opt at siam.org>

Dear colleagues,

We have a postdoc opportunity at the University of Michiganto begin in 
spring 2019. Please share with your students and have them email Laura 
Balzano girasole at umich.edu with the subject "Joining the Balzano lab -- 
postdoc 2019" if they are interested.

We are seeking a postdoc who is interested in applying optimization and 
machine learning techniques to real-time dynamic data analysis. While 
machine learning has advanced significantly over the last decade, its 
application to dynamic time-varying data is still in its infancy. This 
project will focus on three ML areas: online learning, stochastic 
gradient methods, and streaming PCA. We will work on theory to 
understand how the standard approaches behave when the data are 
time-varying, develop appropriate models for time-varying data, and 
develop novel approaches along with convergence theory. Our main 
applications focus will be power systems engineering and computer 
vision. In power systems, we will develop methodologies to infer the 
real-time behavior of aggregations of distributed energy resources from 
hierarchical, heterogeneous, and incomplete measurements of power system 
quantities. In computer vision, we will develop real-time algorithms for 
object tracking and activity recognition in video.


Thank you
Laura Balzano
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~girasole/