[TYPES/announce] Basili Postdoctoral Fellowship Call for Applications

[David Van Horn]

UMD is seeking applicants for the Basili Postdoctoral Fellowship
program.  This is a postdoc opportunity that offers a fair amount of
freedom to pursue your own research agenda, while also developing
collaborations with the PLUM group at Maryland.  If you're interested,
please get in touch with me or Mike Hicks.

https://www.cs.umd.edu/basili-postdoc

David

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The University of Maryland (UMD) Computer Science Department has a
long history of performing cutting-edge research in software
engineering and programming languages. To help ensure its continuing
success, the UMD Computer Science Department is pleased to announce
this year’s call for applications for the Victor Basili Postdoctoral
Fellowship.  The fellowship program seeks talented, highly-motivated,
post-doctoral computer scientists to conduct research in the area of
Applied Software Engineering and Programming Languages, broadly
construed. The program supports multiple two-year postdoctoral
appointments each year for several years, allowing new researchers to
begin their careers at UMD, perform cutting edge research in applied
software engineering and programming languages, and expand our
existing CS research community. Professor Emeritus Victor Basili has
generously supplied the program’s initial funding.

Basili Postdoctoral Fellows work with faculty sponsors 1/2 time, but
are encouraged to develop their own new areas of research in the time
that remains. We believe this combination of mentored collaboration
and freedom to pursue independent interests is a secret of the
program’s success. Current UMD faculty sponsors work in areas such as
software testing, formal methods, programming language design, static
and dynamic program analysis, software security, cyber-physical
systems, empirical studies. They apply their work in diverse
application domains such as automotive and medical systems,
bioinformatics, smart agriculture, and advanced manufacturing, among
many others.

One recent Basili Fellow, Thomas Gilray (https://thomas.gilray.org),
reflecting on his experience as a Basili Fellow writes: “The Basili
fellowship has given me the opportunity to join the fantastic PLUM lab
and pursue my interests in a lively and engaging collaborative
environment. The fellowship provided enormous freedom, in an ideal
supportive context, to pursue collaborations with students doing
exciting work, continuations of my previous efforts, and entirely new
lines of research, with autonomy not usually found in a traditional
post-doc. The department has accommodated my interests to collaborate
on grant writing and to teach a class. It has also been a unique
opportunity for me to develop as a programming languages scholar
around great people who can help me to broaden myself and reach my
potential.”

Another Basili Fellow, Niki Vazou (https://nikivazou.github.io),
writes: By the end of my Ph.D., I was working on a successful project
with many open research directions. So, I was looking for a position
that would let me continue working on my favourite research project
without imposing tight constraints in my work. The Basili postdoc
program greatly met my requirement because it gives me the flexibility
to work on my own projects, while being part of the research group of
Programming Languages of University of Maryland group (PLUM). In
short, the Basili postdoc program is the best fit for me because
allows me to continue my own research while daily interact with and
benefit from  the members of PLUM.

If you are interested in applying to the Victor Basili Postdoctoral
Fellowship, you can learn more here:
https://www.cs.umd.edu/basili-postdoc

Review of applications will begin upon receipt and continue until
positions are filled.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to
basilifellow at cs.umd.edu.

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have 47 full time tenured and tenure track faculty in a wide variety
of research areas, and over 200 doctoral students drawn from top
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