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pursuing degrees in mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering. These students possess strong mathematical and computer programming foundations and technical skills
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the physical effects of the propagation environment; computational/numerical modeling using novel and standard approaches, such as, entropy maximization, immunology, and high performance parallel processing; and
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-performance computing (HPC) systems for large-scale data processing, parallelized workflows, and computationally intensive analyses. Demonstrated experience applying phylogenetic and phylodynamic methods
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the physical effects of the propagation environment; computational/numerical modeling using novel and standard approaches, such as, entropy maximization, immunology, and high performance parallel processing; and