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<p class="MsoTitle" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Graduate Research Assistant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI) is a research center of Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering, located on the grounds of the F. Edward Hebert Research Center in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, a suburb of New
Orleans. TUBRI houses the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection and specializes in biodiversity discovery (primarily fishes) and biodiversity informatics research. Henry L. Bart, Jr., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology serves as TUBRI Director and Yasin
Bakış is Senior Manager of Biodiversity Informatics and Data Engineering for the center.
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Graduate Research Assistant is sought to support the research of the newly funded, NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution Institute project entitled,
<i>Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning</i>. The project involves using Machine-Learning methods to train neural networks to extract phenotypic trait data from images of fish specimens, aided by
a fish anatomy ontology and trees depicting phylogenetic relationships among tested fish species.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The successful candidate will actively participate in the research of the project under the mentorship of Bart and Bakış.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Working knowledge of at least 2 of the following languages (one from each group)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">{Java, C, C++, C#}, {Python, PHP, Perl}, {R, Bash, JavaScript}, {ORACLE SQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Required Education and/or Experience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">BSc in Biology, Computer Science, Information Sciences, or a related field<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Should commit to complete PhD study in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) or Interdisciplinary EEB and Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Preferred Qualifications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">MSc in Biology, Computer Science, Information Sciences or a related field<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Working knowledge of Unix based operating systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Prior experience in one of the following fields; Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Algorithms, Biodiversity Informatics, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
Biomedical Informatics, Ecoinformatics or a related field (publications)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">experience in Image Processing projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">experience in Artificial Intelligence/Neural Networks projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">experience in web-database applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">experience in Genetic Algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Other requirement for the position<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Admission the Ph.D. program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">The position is open to international candidates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Should be able to travel internationally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.4in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Strong communication and interpersonal skills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">The project is in progress, and the position is available as early as January 2022. However, we are willing to delay the start until Summer or Fall 2022 for a qualified and highly motived student.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">For additional information, please contact Henry Bart (</span><a href="mailto:hbartjr@tulane.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">hbartjr@tulane.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">)
and Yasin Bakiş (</span><a href="mailto:ybakis@tulane.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ybakis@tulane.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Register for an account here:
</span><a href="https://sse.tulane.edu/academics/graduate/admissions"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://sse.tulane.edu/academics/graduate/admissions</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Henry L. Bart Jr., Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Curator, Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3705 Main Street, Belle Chasse, LA 70037<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Voice: 504-394-1711; Fax: 504-394-5045<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">400 Lindy Boggs Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Voice: 504-862-8283; Fax 504-862-8706<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Website: <a href="http://people.tubri.org/hank/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://people.tubri.org/hank/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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