The University of Alberta is looking for an industrial postdoctoral fellow funded through the Mitacs Accelerate program to develop enhanced constraint equation solution methods and 3D graphical authoring tools in partnership with a local company in Edmonton, Alberta. The field of application is educational web software for creating randomized scaled mathematical drawings, delivered in an interactive browser environment.
We are looking for a mathematician or computer scientist with a Ph.D. who preferably has practical experience in the Javascript, C++, Asymptote, and WebGL programming languages. The applicant should have skills in designing, debugging, and optimizing mathematical software. The researcher is expected to implement efficient algorithms for nonlinear geometric constraint solving, leveraging ideas from graph theory, optimization, and numerical linear algebra. In addition to this, the researcher will develop a graphical user interface for 3D object generation and manipulation using existing libraries and expanding upon them where necessary. Experience with techniques for generating curves and surfaces in vector graphics would be advantageous in developing efficient algorithms for splitting Bézier surfaces for the creation of Boolean operations with primitive objects. Where possible, the applicant will port existing algorithms to a client-side graphics processor, for faster execution of constraint solving and surface rendering.
The applicant will work jointly with an academic supervisor and a local company. The term of the postdoctoral fellowship is one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year and the potential to lead to future employment with the industrial partner. The candidate will be required to produce and test maintainable, efficient code and work in a team environment that encourages collaboration and continuous iteration.
The anticipated annual salary is $45 000 CAD. Interested applicants should send a cover letter describing past research experience and future research interests, a curriculum vitae, and the contact information for two or three references to jcbowman@users.sf.net with MITACS GRAPHICS in the subject line.
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The University of Alberta is looking for an industrial postdoctoral fellow funded through the Mitacs Accelerate program to develop enhanced constraint equation solution methods and 3D graphical authoring tools in partnership with a local company in Edmonton, Alberta. The field of application is educational web software for creating randomized scaled mathematical drawings, delivered in an interactive browser environment.
We are looking for a mathematician or computer scientist with a Ph.D. who preferably has practical experience in the Javascript, C++, Asymptote, and WebGL programming languages. The applicant should have skills in designing, debugging, and optimizing mathematical software. The researcher is expected to implement efficient algorithms for nonlinear geometric constraint solving, leveraging ideas from graph theory, optimization, and numerical linear algebra. In addition to this, the researcher will develop a graphical user interface for 3D object generation and manipulation using existing libraries and expanding upon them where necessary. Experience with techniques for generating curves and surfaces in vector graphics would be advantageous in developing efficient algorithms for splitting Bézier surfaces for the creation of Boolean operations with primitive objects. Where possible, the applicant will port existing algorithms to a client-side graphics processor, for faster execution of constraint solving and surface rendering.
The applicant will work jointly with an academic supervisor and a local company. The term of the postdoctoral fellowship is one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year and the potential to lead to future employment with the industrial partner. The candidate will be required to produce and test maintainable, efficient code and work in a team environment that encourages collaboration and continuous iteration.
The anticipated annual salary is $45 000 CAD. Interested applicants should send a cover letter describing past research experience and future research interests, a curriculum vitae, and the contact information for two or three references to jcbowman@users.sf.net with MITACS GRAPHICS in the subject line.