Post-doctoral Research Associate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UTK

TheGlobal Computing Laboratory (GCLab)and theEnergy People andInteractive Computing (EPIC lab) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) led by Prof. Michela Taufer and Prof. Sai Swaminathan respectively invite applications for aPostdoctoral Research Associate position to advance the next generation of intelligent adaptive and user-aware scientific workflow systems. Together our labs conduct interdisciplinary research that brings togetherhigh-performance computing (HPC) distributed systems AI/ML and human-computer interaction (HCI). Our ongoing collaborations span intelligent and explainable workflow compositiondata and workflow provenance reproducibility and trust sustainable AI Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning and personalizationedge AI-cloud-HPC convergence and scientific computing. We collaborate with national laboratories universities and industry partners to develop scalable trustworthy and efficient systems for exascale and beyond.

This position offers a unique opportunity to work across system-level and human-centered innovations contributing to open-source software co-design with domain scientists and publishing in top-tier venues such as SC ISC HPDC NeurIPS AAAI CHI UIST and IMWUT/UbiComp.

Other Job Functions

• Collaborates with faculty research staff graduate/undergraduate students and external partners.

• Designs develops and evaluates scalable software frameworks for HPC AI workflows HCI and data-intensive science.

• Engages with national laboratories funding agencies and industry collaborators to advance research goals.

• Authors research proposals to expand and sustain ongoing projects and explore new directions.

• Publishes in top-tier conferences and journals; presents research results at major venues.

• Mentors students and contributes to workforce development initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.

• Strong programming skills in C/C and/or Python.

• Experience with AI high-performance computing environments parallel systems or scientific workflows.

• Demonstrated research excellence through impactful publications technical contributions or leadership in projects.

Desired Qualifications

• Expertise in workflow orchestration AI/ML integration with HPC data management systems.

• Experience with distributed storage and I/O libraries (e.g. HDF5 NetCDF).

• Familiarity with containerization cloud-HPC convergence or exascale software stacks.

• Strong communication and technical writing skills; ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams.

Additional Information

• Occasional travel to national laboratories conferences or project meetings may be required.

Starting salary range begins at $75000 per year depending on experience and qualifications.

Contact

If you are interested in this position please apply here or contact:

Prof. Michela Taufer

Dongarra Professor in High Performance Computing

Director Global Computing Laboratory

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of Tennessee Knoxville

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