The USC Integrated Media Systems Center, IMSC (https://imsc.usc.edu/) directed by Prof. Cyrus Shahabi seeks a highly motivated Computer Scientist for a leading role in studying and analyzing high-fidelity location data for applications with societal impacts. The goal of IMSC is to design and develop end-to-end data platforms to acquire, access, analyze and take action on big data, especially data with spatial and temporal attributes. To pursue this goal, we use a combined theoretical and experimental computational approach in managing and analyzing large datasets.  The current application domains are in urban planning, transportation, health and smart cities.  The position is with the Department of Computer Science in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southe