We're recruiting Assistant Professors to the FP group for our new Strategic 
Research project "RAW FP". Come and work with us! Two-body problem? We've got 
two jobs!
Deadline coming up on the 18th.
John Hughes

http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/cse/pmwiki.php/FP/FP

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2 Assistant Professors in Functional Programming

The Functional Programming group at Chalmers University is seeking two 
outstanding young researchers for four year Assistant Professor positions Ref 
2011/231.

Group description
Functional programming is enjoying an unprecedented surge of interest, with 
languages such as Erlang, Scala and Haskell seeing high-profile applications in 
companies large and small. A major reason is the much improved productivity 
that software developers can enjoy, by adopting functional programming. With 
intense competition from emerging economies, productivity improvements are 
vital if the West is to retain its software industry. We have secured a large, 
five-year strategic research grant to bring these benefits to two new areas: 
signal processing and low-level control in the system layer of products such as 
radio base stations for mobile broadband, and real-time automotive software 
built around the AUTOSAR standard.

Our approach is to combine domain-specific languages embedded in Haskell or 
Erlang with rapid verification based on property-based testing (QuickCheck) and 
automated proof tools. Our work is carried out in close cooperation with 
industry, and has the potential to make a real impact in key industrial sectors.

Our group is a leading centre of functional programming research, the source of 
the QuickCheck testing tool (awarded Most Influential Paper of ICFP 2000 by ACM 
SIGPLAN), the Equinox theorem prover and Paradox model finder, and of domain 
specific languages like Lava and the Feldspar signal-processing language 
(embedded in Haskell, funded by Ericsson, the world's largest supplier of radio 
base stations). We combine strong links to industry with high academic 
standards, and thus receive funding from both basic and strategic research 
agencies. We are currently four professors (Hughes, Sheeran, Claessen, 
Jansson), five postdocs, and eight doctoral students; our new strategic grant 
will fund a significant expansion and a stream of visiting international 
researchers. The proposal that attracted the funding for these positions is 
available at 
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ms/SSF10Final.pdf<http://www.cse.chalmers.se/%7Ems/SSF10Final.pdf>

Although some changes have been made to the plan, the proposal gives a good 
indication of the research areas to which we expect successful candidates to 
contribute.

Job description
These are attractive four year full-time positions in one of the strongest 
Functional Programming groups anywhere. You will work at the cutting edge of 
research in Functional Programming, and will strengthen your qualifications, 
both for advancement in academia and for industrial research positions. After 
two years, progress will be assessed. After four years, an Assistant Professor 
who has been appointed in open competition may, under certain circumstances, be 
considered for appointment to a permanent position as Associate Professor.

You will be expected to take part in teaching and masters project supervision 
(to a maximum of 25%) and also in doctoral student supervision. The working 
language in the research group is English. The undergraduates are normally 
taught in Swedish, but the graduate level teaching is in English. You will gain 
experience of grant proposal writing, as we strive to find funding for our long 
term research. You will most likely be involved in industrial collaboration.

The positions are available from October 2011, although the start date is 
negotiable.

Required qualifications
We are looking for researchers with a strong record in functional programming 
research and practice, preferably related to domain specific languages, testing 
and/or automated reasoning. You should have a doctorate in computer science 
(normally completed at most five years before deadline for application), and 
ideally also post-doctoral experience. We have promised much in the above 
proposal, and you will be expected to help us to deliver! You should have a 
strong publication record for your academic age. We place particular emphasis 
on the communication of research results and the quality of your writing will 
strongly influence our assessment of you. Please make sure to include your 
three best papers in your application.

Application procedure
The application shall be marked with Ref 2011/231 and written in English. The 
application shall be sent electronically and be attached as three pdf-files, as 
below:

 1.  Application:
- a first page containing name, reference number 2011/231 and a list of all 
documents that have been enclosed,
- description of the applicant's research and pedagogical qualifications, as 
well as other qualifications,
- CV,
- complete list of publications,
- plans for future work within the area of the announced position, both 
scientific and educational, if appointed,
- two reference persons who can be contacted by Chalmers (describe association 
with them and give their contact addresses).
 2.  letter of application detailing your specific qualifications for the 
position.
 3.  Publications:
- copies of the applicant's best scientific publications (not more than 5),
- copies of a maximum of 5 other publications (such as pedagogy, and popular 
science) in support of pedagogical and other merits.
The application should be sent electronically. Please use the button at the 
foot of the page to reach the application form. The files may be compressed 
(zipped).

Application deadline: 2011-10-18

For questions, please contact:
Professor John Hughes, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Professor Mary Sheeran, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Department level:
Head of the Department, Catarina Coquand, 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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