Paleonet: Paleobotany graduate position – University of Illinois Department of Plant Biology

[Punyasena, Surangi W]

Application due date: December 1, 2023

Hello everyone!

My lab is looking to recruit a graduate student (MS or PhD) to a project applying deep learning to the taxonomic analysis of dispersed leaf cuticle. Funded by an American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund New Directions grant, the project is in collaboration with Rich Barclay (Smithsonian, Natural History), Shu Kong (Texas A&M, Computer Science), Carlos Jaramillo (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute), and Hermann Behling (University of Göttingen).

Applicants should have undergraduate or graduate experience in laboratory or museum research and Python programming. Students with a strong background in statistics/probability and/or plant systematics are encouraged to apply.

Please apply directly to the Plant Biology graduate program through the University of Illinois graduate admissions website. Applications are due December 1. Instructions on how to apply may be found here: https://sib.illinois.edu/departments/plant-biology/graduate-admissions-plant-biology. More information on the department may be found here: https://sib.illinois.edu/departments/plant-biology.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<http://www.illinois.edu> is located ~120 miles south of Chicago in a metropolitan area of ~232,000 people. The campus is home to internationally recognized facilities and interdisciplinary programs including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications<http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu>, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology<http://www.igb.illinois.edu>, and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment<https://sustainability.illinois.edu/>. The University’s Prairie Research Institute<https://prairie.illinois.edu/> is home to the Illinois Natural History Survey<https://inhs.illinois.edu/> and the Illinois State Geological Survey<https://isgs.illinois.edu/>.

Please feel free to contact me (spunya1 at illinois.edu<mailto:spunya1 at illinois.edu>) if you have any questions.

Best,
Surangi Punyasena

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Surangi W. Punyasena, PhD
Department of Plant Biology
Co-curator, University of Illinois Phillips Coal Ball Collection
Affiliate faculty: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling Carl R. Worse Institute for Genomic Biology
Department of Geology, Department of Geography & GIS, Program in Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology
Illinois Informatics Institute, Computational Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
505 South Goodwin Avenue, Morrill Hall 137-139, Urbana, Illinois 61801
publish.illinois.edu/punyasena

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