<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" class="4"><div><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Researcher,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee invites applications from outstanding and enthusiastic researchers from Indian Nationals for <span class="il">postdoctoral</span> position under the mentorship of Prof. Sumanta Sarkhel focused on “<b><span lang="EN-US">Investigation and characterization of ionospheric two dimensional plasma structures over the geomagnetic low-mid latitude transition region using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</span></b>”.</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US">The<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">r</span>osp<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">e</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">i</span>ve<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">c</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">a</span>ndidate<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">x</span>p<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">ec</span>ted<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt">t</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">n</span>g <span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">b</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">c</span>k<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">g</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">r</span>ound<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">e</span>a<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing:0.6pt"> </span><strong>Atmospheric Physics/Space<span style="letter-spacing:0.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">P</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt">h</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt">y</span>sics</strong><b><span lang="EN-US"><strong>/</strong>Physics/Computer Science/Applied Mathematics/Statistics</span></b> spe<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">c</span>ial<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt">l</span>y <span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">r</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span>lat<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:0.3pt"> </span>Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Artificial Intelligence. Prior experience in working with airglow imagers and knowledge of image analyses using MATLAB/Python will get an added advantage.<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"> The c</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span>ndida<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">t</span>e<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span>should<span style="letter-spacing:0.2pt"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">x</span>p<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span>ri<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">n</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">c</span>e<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span>w<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">o</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">r</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">k</span>i<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt">n</span>g on<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">c</span>ut<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">t</span>i<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt">n</span>g <span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">d</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">g</span>e r<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">e</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">r</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">c</span>h<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span>nd<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span>must<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">a</span>ve publ<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">i</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">ca</span>t<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">i</span>ons<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"> reputed </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">p</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">ee</span>r<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">e</span>v<span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt">i</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span>w<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt"> </span>jo<span style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">u</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">a</span>ls.<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"> The selected candidate will work </span></span><span lang="EN-US">on the newly installed </span><span lang="EN-US">all-sky multi-wavelength airglow imaging system (557.7 and 630.0 nm filters) at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), Hanle, Leh Ladakh (32.78<sup>o </sup>N, 78.96<sup>o </sup>E) for the investigation of the Earth’s ionosphere. The details of the all-sky airglow imager is available at <a href="https://allsky.iitr.ac.in/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://allsky.iitr.ac.in/</a>. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span>A few details of above mentioned post is as follows:<br></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US">Emoluments: </span><b><span lang="EN-US">₹ 54,000 + HRA (as per institute rule)</span></b><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US"></span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US">2.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US">Duration: <b>One year (extendable up to three years after satisfactory progress in each year)</b></span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:150%" lang="EN-US"></span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US">3.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Job description: <b>To carry research work of the project. The work entails labeling of data, data preprocessing, and experimentation using CNNs and other architectures. Expertise in programming is essential: Python, Tensorflow/Keras, and other relevant libraries and tools.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Candidates desirin<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">g to appear for the Interview should submit their applications with the following documents to the Principal Investigator through email (<b>sarkhel@ph.iitr.ac.in</b>) only. <!--StartFragment--><span style="left: 799.867px; top: 794.783px; transform: scaleX(1.07108);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 799.867px; top: 794.783px; transform: scaleX(1.07108);">The deadline for </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="left: 163.371px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(1.00018);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 163.371px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(1.00018);">submission is extended</span><span style="left: 319.815px; top: 817.583px;" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 319.815px; top: 817.583px;"> </span><span style="left: 325.967px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(0.904583);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 325.967px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(0.904583);">to</span><span style="left: 337.217px; top: 817.583px;" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 337.217px; top: 817.583px;"> </span><strong><span style="left: 343.1px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(0.9939);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 343.1px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(0.9939);">20</span><span style="left: 359.002px; top: 817.583px;" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 359.002px; top: 817.583px;"> </span><span style="left: 363.917px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(1.11119);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 363.917px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(1.11119);">May</span><span style="left: 396.512px; top: 817.583px;" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 396.512px; top: 817.583px;"> </span></strong><span style="left: 401.9px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(1.00836);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="left: 401.9px; top: 817.583px; transform: scaleX(1.00836);"><strong>2022</strong>.</span></span><!--EndFragment--> </span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="letter-spacing:0.7pt"> <br></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US">The details of the advertisement is available in the following link:</span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br><a href="https://iitr.ac.in/Careers/static/Project_Jobs/2022/PH/adv310320222.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://iitr.ac.in/Careers/static/Project_Jobs/2022/PH/adv310320222.pdf</a> <br></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> I would request you to kindly circulate this email with your institute colleagues and prospective candidates.</span><br><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks and regards,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Sumanta</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">--</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">**********************************************************************************************************************************************</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif">Kindly note that my email address has been changed to <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb( 255 , 0 , 0 )"><em><strong>sarkhel@ph.iitr.ac.in</strong></em></span>. Please send emails to my new address only.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">**********************************************************************************************************************************************</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Sumanta Sarkhel, <em>Ph.D.</em></span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Associate Professor,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Department of Physics,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Roorkee - 247667,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Uttarakhand,</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">India</span><br><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Phone: +91-1332-284817</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Visit My Profile: https://ph.iitr.ac.in/~PH/Sumanta_Sarkhel</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Visit Our Webpage: https://allsky.iitr.ac.in</span><br><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">My Google Scholar Citation Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UotPqsMAAAAJ</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">My ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sumanta_Sarkhel/</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>