Project Manager, Chicago Urban Heritage Project

• →Manages Chicago Urban Heritage Project, overseeing research design and implementation, student RA hours and scheduling, and project exhibition.
• →Advances computer vision, machine learning, and GeoAI research to extract geospatial data from scanned historical maps, and remains in conversation with other research leaders in the field.
• →Designs and develops web-based, publicly-accessible research tools leveraging UChicago AI resources, such as Claude Enterprise and PhoenixAI, to streamline undergraduate researchers’ GIScience workflows to process datasets derived from the open-source CUHP GeoAI pipeline.
• →Maintains strict data quality standards to ensure that CUHP produces a cohesive dataset spanning more than one million building entries that is legible to the general public while also useful for geospatial analysis by interdisciplinary researchers.
• →Presents project progress at third-party events and conferences, and continues to publish findings in peer-reviewed academic journals.
• →Hires, trains, and supervises undergraduate research assistants and on-campus student project manager(s) to implement an educational research cohort that provides students with hands-on GIS and applied data science experiences.
• →Serves as liaison to UChicago Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship, a key partner in CUHP’s design, execution, publication, and expansion.
• →Supervises the management, training, and supervision of student researchers associated with the Chicago Urban Heritage Project, including ongoing participation in weekly team meetings and project Slack channel.
• →Develops student-, instructor-, and community-facing programming to expand recruitment, participation, and use of datasets.
• →When requested, delivers technical demonstrations of project components and findings in support of undergraduate courses and promote broader aims of Chicago Studies and its partners.
• →Collaborates with the Center for Digital Scholarship and other project partners to secure external grant funding for extension of this research initiative.
• →Helps coordinate events, researches logistics, assists with planning and preparing presentations, event outreach, and post-event write ups.
• →May assist with other administrative projects as needed and acquire higher level guidance and skills.
• →Performs other related work as needed.

• Background working with students and academic appointees, including faculty, instructors, and postdocs.
• Project management experience.

• This is a part-time position of approximately 19 hours per week.

• Resume/CV (required)

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