We are looking for an outstanding candidate for a Ph.D. position in the School of Computing at Clemson University, starting summer or fall 2014. The candidate will be a part of discrete algorithms team. The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Ilya Safro on combinatorial scientific computing, graphs, network science, and large-scale optimization. The candidate will have a unique opportunity to collaborate with scientists from national labs.

Both M.Sc. and B.Sc. candidates will be considered.

Please send your application as soon as possible to Ilya Safro at isafro =[at]= clemson.edu . The application should include one pdf with
- cover letter or/and essay
- resume
- grades
- contact details of 2-3 references
The subject line must include "PhD Application (CSC)".

The School of Computing has 42 faculty members, more than 400 undergraduate majors, and over 200 graduate students collectively across its three divisions: Computer Science, Visual Computing, and Human-Centered Computing. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina, a small college town on beautiful Lake Hartwell at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, conveniently situated within a 2hr drive from both Atlanta and Charlotte. Clemson is the land grant university of South Carolina and has an enrollment of approximately 20,000. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Clemson in the Top 21 nationally among public universities, and Clemson ranks number 5 among U.S. universities in supercomputing.

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Ilya Safro
School of Computing
Clemson Univeristy
http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~isafro