<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please help to spread the following recruiting information to anyone who is interested:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d040d3c5-7fff-17bf-f46e-ce27600964ea"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">The newly founded </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11.5pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"> led by </span><a href="http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dr. Kaiyu Guan</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"> at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is recruiting multiple research scientists, postdoctoral scholars and PhD students on ecosystem modeling and sensing (more details at <a href="http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/Guan_UIUC_recruiting_2022.pdf">http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/Guan_UIUC_recruiting_2022.pdf</a>). </span> Research topics for these positions at ASC include: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1) Advancing ecosystem modeling for coupled water, carbon and nutrient cycles in managed or unmanaged ecosystems. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The candidates will work on improving existing ecosystem models or develop new modules with new theories and observational evidence. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2) Advancing ecosystem sensing by integrating ground, airborne, and satellite data streams.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The candidates will work on generating new insights and data products from geospatial big data with radiative transfer modeling, computer vision, and deep learning. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3) Advancing model-data fusion by integrating advanced ecosystem modeling with high-quality sensing data to improve the quantification of changes in various ecosystem services. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The candidates will work on building effective, scalable and efficient model-data fusion solutions by leveraging advanced computation techniques and artificial intelligence. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">

</span></p><div class="gmail_default">Thanks a lot for the help.</div><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
Bin.</span></p></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27.2px"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">-----------</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><b>Bin Peng, Ph.D.</b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Department of
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Institute for
Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (ISEE)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>