Big Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific fellowship focuses on developing systematic approaches to extraction of science from extremely high data rates or large complex archives for missions like WFIRST and TESS. The position addresses the significant challenge of processing very large, complex data sets replete with observatory systematics and elusive astrophysical signals from wide-field astronomical surveys. NASA seeks a postdoctoral fellow with data science skills to work on machine learning for classification of astrophysical signals, artificial intelligence augmentation of spaceborne observatories, migration of science processing to cloud-based computing, development of highly accessible databases, and GPU acceleration of scientific data processing. The fellowship is designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology over a one- to three-year period at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.