We would like to draw your attention to currently open call
for full-time academic position of Assistant Professor in the
field of Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
https://www.muni.cz/en/about-us/careers/vacancies/70340
Assistant Professor Position in Natural Language Processing
Department
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Deadline
30 Sep 2022
Start date
By mutual agreement.
The Dean of the Faculty of Informatics MU invites applications
for a position of Assistant Professor in Natural Language
Processing, with the Department of Machine Learning and Data
Processing.
This position is aimed to strengthen the work of the Natural
Language Processing Centre (NLP Centre - https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/)
at the Faculty of Informatics. NLP Centre conducts basic and
applied research in all areas of text and speech analysis and
knowledge engineering with applications in data analysis projects
(often in cooperation with industrial partners) and education of
future language and data analysts. Besides research and
education, the abilities to work with a team of graduate students
on research targeting top NLP conferences and to engage
undergraduate and graduate students in both educational and
research exercises are crucial.
Job description key points
- Active international cooperation, in research and education.
- Involvement in teaching in the natural language processing area.
- Supervision of Master/Bachelor theses and consultancy or
co-supervision of PhDs.
- Involvement in expanding industrial cooperation in the
natural language processing area.
Requirements
- PhD in Informatics or related discipline.
- Passion for problem solving and desire for continuous
improvement in teaching skills.
- Existing track record in both education and research in
natural language processing.
- Expert knowledge in (several) areas covered by courses:
- PA153 Natural Language Processing
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA153
- IA161 Natural Language Processing in Practice
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IA161
- PA164 Machine learning and natural language processing
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA164
- PA154 Language Modeling
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA154
- PV061 Machine Translation
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PV061
- PV277 Programming Applications for Social Robots
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PV277
- PA156 Dialogue Systems
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA156
- IB047 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Computer Lexicography
https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IB047
- Practical involvement in the development phase of software
project(s) with ability to demonstrate tools developed and
showcase data analyses performed.
- Dynamic, flexible personality, able to work well in teams.
- Languages – fluent English (both spoken and written), other
language(s) welcome.
- Experience from other countries than Czech & Slovak
republics (at least half a year).
Desired skills and achievements
- Experience with research achievements published at the top
NLP conferences or best journals publishing NLP research
results.
- Ability to work well in interdisciplinary teams.
- Successfully defended Bachelor and/or Master theses supervised.
- Experience with research project team leadership is an advantage.
- Open-source projects development and maintenance.
Other information
The starting salary for this Assistant Professor position is
76,500 CZK, and with the progress in this tenure-track
position can in no more than 3 years be modified based on the
level of involvement in research and educational projects.
Applicants should submit
- CV;
- degree documents;
- summary of work experience, publication and teaching
activities and involvement in research grants;
- cover letter explaining your interest in the position and
the IT area;
- title and abstract of a lecture that can be presented as
a part of the application process;
- names and contacts of three professional and language
referees.
Please submit your application, including all required documents,
preferably online via the MU e-application at Vacancies | Masaryk
University (muni.cz)
In case this way of submission would not be possible, we also
accept a paper application with a declaration of the reason for
the such submission.
Any queries regarding the submission shall be sent to:
[email protected].
Queries regarding the position as such can be addressed to
assoc. prof. Ales Horak: [email protected].
Further information is available
Masaryk University at https://www.muni.cz/en
Brno at https://www.gotobrno.cz/en/
--
Ales Horak
Faculty of Informatics
Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
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