Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director post at University of Essex

The University of Essex (UK) is currently advertising a Senior Lecturer post in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering in the area of artificial intelligence. This is a permanent appointment with a three year secondment as Assistant Director to the Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS). The person appointed will work closely with the Director of the Institute and UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science, Prof Maria Fasli, and provide senior academic leadership in promoting and supporting a range of research activities in analytics and data science.
Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science or related area and have excellent knowledge of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning or advanced text analytics. Particular research areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- machine learning;
- reinforcement learning, neural networks, deep learning;
- data mining;
- predictive analytics;
- natural language processing and advanced text analytics;
- semantic information extraction and the Semantic Web;
- social media analysis;
- handling of data in motion (multi-stream processing and reasoning, complex event processing and reasoning);
- decision support tools and systems.
For more information and to make an application, please see here:
https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment...
The job specification can be found here:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/hr-jobpacks/science_health-...
Informal enquiries can be directed to Prof Maria Fasli (mfasli-AT-essex.ac.uk).