POSTDOC position information retrieval

[Benjamin Hirsch]

POSTDOC position at the DAI Labor of the Technische Universiät Berlin

The DAI Labor and the chair "Agent Technologies in Business Applications and Telecommunications" under the leadership of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sahin Albayrak focuses on research and development with the goal of developing technologies for the next generation of services and distributed systems. These "Smart Services and Smart Systems" provide a number of novel features that allows them to act autonomously and intelligently.
Research in the DAI Labor is being conducted within six different Competence Centers. With this theoretical grounding the DAI Labor applies the technologies in different application areas for the development and evaluation of Smart Services. State-of-the-art testbeds allow to validate and demonstrate these services in realistic scenarios. Close cooperation with industry partners ensures an approach that is both practical and solution oriented. All of this allows the DAI Labor to develop technologies within an university environment that meets even the highest industry standards.

The Competence Center "Information Retrieval and Machine Learning" is conducting research in expert systems, knowledge management, community services and personalised newsletters. The group works in close collaboration with the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin with the goal to become one of the leading research groups in knowledge management.

The candidate will be responsible for coordinating the activities of the competence center, including leading small teams of students and PhD candidates, managing projects, writing project proposals as well as communicating with national and international partners.

Your profile:
*       a PhD in computer science or a related discipline
*       experience in information retrieval, classification, machine learning
*       knowledge databases and data description languages (such as OWL, RDF, ...)
*       motivation, be used to take the initiative, and be a team player
*       experience with project acquisitions
*       good management skills
*       excellent spoken and written English, German is a definite plus

We offer:
*       exciting topics and a vibrant environment
*       excellent state-of-the-art infrastructure with access to new and emerging technologies
*       close collaboration with university and large industries
*       a 2+3 year contract

For further information regarding this position and our institute, please see our website http://www.dai-labor.de, or contact Thomas Strecker at Thomas.Strecker at dai-labor.de

Applications including a CV, research statement, and a list of publications should be sent to Thomas.Strecker at dai-labor.de no later than 31.3.2008.