The newly established NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to initiate a new comprehensive research program exploring the surrogate modeling of astrophysical systems. The Fellow, based at the University of Texas at Austin, will collaborate with CosmicAI researchers within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and with team members across the Institute to facilitate the development of cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies.

The newly established National Science Foundation (NSF)-Simons CosmicAI Institute seeks to hire two postdoctoral fellows to help initiate a new comprehensive research program to foster foundational advancements in AI through the analysis and processing of astronomical data at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), located on the grounds of the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The newly established National Science Foundation (NSF)-Simons CosmicAI Institute seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to help initiate a new comprehensive research program to foster foundational advancements in AI through the curation, analysis, and processing of astronomical data at the NSF NOIRLab, located in Tucson, Arizona. The postdoctoral fellow will lead a project on the curation and analysis of multi-epoch time-domain training data for real-time classification algorithms in the context of alert brokers, such as ANTARES, for the Vera Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This work will be carried out in close collaboration with CosmicAI team members at various institutions, including NOIRLab (Tom Matheson), SLAC (Adam Bolton), and the University of Virginia (Maryam Modjaz). Although stationed at NSF NOIRLab, CosmicAI fellows will have full access to Institute facilities and equipment (e.g., world-class computational resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, including Vista, a newly instantiated 600 GPU node cluster) and routinely collaborate with Institute members across all sites to facilitate the development of cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies.

The newly established NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to initiate a new comprehensive research program exploring the surrogate modeling of astrophysical systems. The Fellow, based at the University of Texas at Austin, will collaborate with CosmicAI researchers within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and with team members across the Institute to facilitate the development of cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies.

The NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks highly qualified candidates (within three years of the award of their PhD) for a postdoctoral position with the Explorable Universe research group. Appointments will begin Fall 2025, with a term of 1 year with the possibility of renewal. Read more about the institute and its mission here. 

This postdoctoral fellow position will perform research with the Explorable Universe team on developing next-generation generative AI copilots and agents to aid astronomy research, inclusive of text and/or multimodal foundational models. Successful candidates will be appointed within the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, and co-supervised by the team of Greg Durrett, Jessy Li, and Matthew Lease. Applicants will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

The newly established NSF-Simons CosmicAI Institute seeks to hire an outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow specializing in AI with a focus on Explainable and Interpretable AI (XAI) methods. The Fellow will play a key role in advancing research efforts aimed at creating innovative AI techniques, with a particular focus on causal inference with AI and symbolic modeling tailored for complex data analysis in astronomy. The Fellow, based at the University of Texas at Austin, will work closely with Dr. Arya Farahi and Dr. Alessandro Rinaldo at the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences and will collaborate with researchers across the Institute to facilitate the development of cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies.

The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2025.  We seek candidates who will advance our understanding of the cosmos while also furthering artificial-intelligence and machine-learning techniques.

Up to four fellows will be selected and will receive generous stipends and housing allowances to spend a full year in residence at UT Austin beginning in August 2025, during which their time will be committed fully to their research and creative pursuits. Each fellow will receive $75,000 in discretionary funds to support those pursuits while at UT, an amount unmatched by fellowship programs of its kind.

The newly launched NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks a part-time (50% Full Time Equivalent) communications director to manage all aspects of internal and public-facing communications.

The Communications Director will play a key role in managing communications for the CosmicAI Institute, enhance the Institute’s public presence, and contribute to promoting the Institute’s groundbreaking work for a variety of audiences. This position is based at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, which is housed in the Oden Institute at UT Austin.