Academic Computational Science and Engineering Institute Associate Director
University of Wyoming
The Academic Computational Science and Engineering Institute (ACSEI) is a new entity within the College
of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) at the University of Wyoming. The ACSEI was started with
seed funding from the University and currently consists of 7 UW engineering faculty members and their
associated research groups from different departments including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Atmospheric Science. The institute is currently run by the
participating faculty who set the strategic direction for the institute, but seeks to hire an associate
director to administer the day-to-day operations of the institute. This position would be resident in the
college of engineering, but would interact heavily with the Advance Research Computing Center (ARCC)
which provides research computing facilities across campus at UW. The ACSEI associate director may
also have an office within the ARCC facility to promote interaction between ARCC and ACSEI. We
anticipate the ASCEI to grow in size over the next several years and to include members from other
colleges in addition to CEAS at UW.
The ACSEI associate director must have an academic background in scientific computing. This person will
be responsible for the daily operation of the institute which involves basic local IT support, but also
academic participation in formulating institute-wide research proposals, building relations with the HPC
industry, managing student course requirements in computational science, and participating in the
overall strategic direction and growth of the Institute.
A list of qualification and duties are given below:
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Promote Academic Computational Science Institute (ACSEI) across campus and beyond
Contribute to and implement strategic vision of ACSEI
Interface with ARCC, SER Visualization center, NWSC (NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center)
Help with common Institute proposals (possibly in partnership with ARCC)
Help with industry contacts and partnerships
Provide IT Support: desktops, licensing of software, local backups, networking in ENG building
and to ARCC/SER, research software support: ie. Maintaining SVN/GIT repositories, regression
testing systems or other special needs of individual research groups, facilitating visualization
services.
Organize or deliver short courses on Linux, programming, HPC porting etc.
Maintain web site content (possibly by delegating to web developer)
Help with hiring or subcontracting other activities needed by ACSEI
Candidate should have an advanced technical degree related to computational science
PhD Degree (desirable, not mandatory)
For consideration, please email a resume to [email protected]. We anticipate filling this position by
June 2015, although the position will remain open until filled.