Job Description

•    The successful candidates will work with Prof. Shoemaker and her group to develop, implement and/or evaluate serial and parallel single or multi objective optimization algorithms for black-box objective functions.  

•    The optimization problem can be expected to have multiple local minima/maxima. Surrogate methods are considered also since computational efficiency for computationally expensive objectives (e.g. simulations) is greatly enhanced with them.

Job Requirementst

•    PhD in an optimization/statistical/computational field (e.g. Operations Research, Industrial/Systems  
•    Extensive experience in developing complex computer codes in Python.
•    Prior knowledge of surrogate global optimization is an advantage.

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More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: College of Design and Engineering

Department : Industrial Systems Engineering and Management

Employee Referral Eligible: No

Job requisition ID : 15236