The Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim, Germany, invites
applications for the following open position:
PostDoc in the field of Data Search, Data Integration, and Data Mining for
33 months
in a third party funded research project performed together with a leading
German data mining company as industry partner. The project will develop data
search methods for enabling large amounts of intranet and web data to be used
for (semi-) automatic table extension. Applicants should have a strong
background in one or more of the following areas:
* Data search, information retrieval, and efficient indexing structures
* Data integration, schema and instance matching, data fusion
* Data mining, in particular feature creation and selection
The Data and Web Science Group [1] is one of the largest research groups in the
area of data science in Germany, comprising of 6 professors and over 20
PostDocs and PhD students, and thus provides a fruitful ecosystem for
researchers.
The project builds on earlier work of the group [2-4]. As a PostDoc researcher
in the project, you will coordinate 2-3 PhD students working in the same field.
The position is payed according to German regulations (TV-L 13, >3300€ before
tax depending on your experience). The earliest possible starting date is Oct
1, 2015.
We seek to fill the position with a PostDoc researcher, nevertheless PhD
candidates with an exceptional track record are also invited to apply.
Applications should contain a CV, a publication list, university transcripts, a
link to the PhD/master thesis (or equivalent) as well as a list of personal
references. All applications received until August 21st, 2015 will receive
full consideration, but you are invited to send your application earlier.
Applications can be sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Questions
concerning the position are answered via the same email address by Christian
Bizer and Heiko Paulheim.
The University of Mannheim seeks to increase the proportion of women in
research and teaching. Preference will be given to suitably qualified women or
persons with disabilities, all other considerations being equal.
[1] http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de
[2] Lehmberg et al.: The Mannheim Search Join Engine. JWS 2015,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2015.05.001
[3] Ristoski et al.: Mining the Web of Linked Data with RapidMiner. JWS 2015,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2015.06.004
[4] Ritze et al.: Matching HTML Tables to DBpedia. WIMS 2015,
http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/lehrstuehle/ki/pub/Ritze-etal-MatchingTablesToDBpedia-WIMS2015.pdf
