Please email the contact for the appropriate research area as specified in the full description. Contact information for all faculty may be found here.

The Department of Computing and Information Sciences accepts resumes throughout the year for temporary, part-time research positions and student internship opportunities related to ongoing research focuses within the department. If interested in applying, please email a cover letter (identifying which research area you are interested in), a resume, and three references to the appropriate point of contact listed below. Kansas State University is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees. Background check required.

If interested, please send e-mail documenting:

Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, and Math courses taken
Names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of 3 references
Overall GPA
to: bhsu@cis.ksu.edu
KDD Lab web site and current group members:
http://www.kddresearch.org

The KDD Lab in Computing and Information Sciences (CIS) at K-State is seeking undergraduate research programmers, for research projects in the areas of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing:

Bioinformatics
Biosecurity
Computer and Information Security
Data Mining and Information Extraction from Social Networks, Text, Web Documents, and Weblogs
Graphics, User Interfaces, Visualization, Virtual Environments, Critiquing and Training Systems
Necessary Qualifications

Proficiency with Java, C/C++, or C#
CIS 200 and one of CIS 208 or CIS 300, or equivalent coursework and experience
Ability to work 10-20 hours per week during the regular academic year
Ideal Qualifications

One of CIS 301 (Logical Foundations of Programming), CIS 520 (Operating Systems), or equivalent coursework or background
One of Stat 510 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics) or Math 510 (Discrete Mathematics)
Experience with any of the following is a plus:
An integrated development environment (IDE) such as Eclipse or Visual C++/C#
A GUI development environment: Swing, SWT, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), etc.
Database programming, especially ODBC or JDBC
Python or a server-side programming or scripting language (JSP, PHP, Perl), a functional programming language (Objective CAML, Standard ML, Scheme, LISP), or experience with expert system shells (CLIPS, JESS, etc.)
Introductory coursework in machine learning, knowledge-based expert systems, or DBMS
Previous work on group projects
Ideal candidates will be able to start immediately and remain with the group for at least one year

Our computing environment comprises a number of high-end AMD Opteron, Pentium 4 Xeon, Sparc, PowerPC G4 workstations and Beowulf cluster nodes, running Linux (especially Gentoo, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE), Windows Vista, Solaris, Mac OS 10 (10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.5 Leopard).

Software components of our environment include IBM Eclipse, MS Visual Studio 2008, Borland JBuilder, Lisp, Scheme; graphics packages such as Alias|Wavefront Maya and Blender and libraries such as OpenGL and OGRE; various expert system shells and scripting languages; and a vast array of visualization and computational mathematics packages (MATLAB, Mathematica, SAS, SPSS, NeuroSolutions, etc.).

Our systems are connected by high-speed networks to the computing facilities of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance.

The lab director is William H. Hsu http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu .

Compensation starts at $9 per hour with increases after 1-2 semesters, given satisfactory performance.

Questions regarding the GE Aviation co-op here in Manhattan, KS may be
sent to Maritza Muguira at maritza.muguira@ge.com.

We have openings for co-ops at GE Aviation in the Manhattan University
Development Center starting July 2010. Our engineering students work
along side experienced GE engineers. They are trained to use the latest
state of the art engineering tools necessary to complete their assigned
tasks. The Manhattan site is currently focused on software verification
of GE Aviation's Flight Management Systems and database tools through
manual and automated test procedures.

Find out more about this opportunity at http://www.ge.com/careers/UDC or
contact us directly.

Candidate Criteria:
* Minimum 3.0 on a 4.0 grade point average scale.
* Our positions require access to controlled technology. Therefore, to
abide by export control regulations, these positions require US
Citizenship or US Permanent Resident Alien Status.