3 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in CS, Liverpool, UK

[Van Der Hoek, Wiebe]

3 academic positions, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.

2 x Lecturer (grade 8) and 1 x Senior Lecturer/Reader (grade 9) 
Salary range: £39,324 - £63,009 pa 
Closing date for applications: 05-May-2017 

The School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science invites applications for three academic positions in the Department of Computer Science. Two of the positions are at Lecturer level (grade 8) and the third is at Senior Lecturer/Reader level (grade 9). The Department is renowned internationally for excellent research in the areas of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. Within these two areas the Department has nine, more specialised, research groups on topics directly related to or spanning Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. For these posts, candidates will specifically have a track record in, or strong potential for, demonstrating the impact of their research. 

The three posts available sit within our core areas of AI and Algorithms and within these we seek candidates with research expertise in one or more of the following topics:
- Machine learning, covering: deep learning; reinforcement learning, natural language processing; statistical learning and optimisation. 
- Human-robot interaction, specifically focussed on: verification; trustworthy robots; simulation.
- AI and law, covering: knowledge representation and reasoning for the legal domain; information extraction from legal texts. 

We seek highly professional candidates who will be expected to contribute in a variety of ways to the research areas mentioned above. Consequently, candidates should have an excellent track record of (or high potential for) production of quality research outputs in the area of their expertise; a strong interest in and evidence of (or high potential for) securing research funding; ability to contribute to teaching provided by the Department and a willingness to contribute to strengthening the impact of the Department’s research. The Department is involved in a number of collaborations within and outside the University and as such is also keen to strengthen its base in interdisciplinary research. The School holds an Athena SWAN bronze award and is committed to promoting diversity and equality. 

Full details of the posts and the application form are at: https://tinyurl.com/mbt39cp
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Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek
Head of School of EEE&CS
University of Liverpool  
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/     
tel  (+44) 7970247480 
wiebe at liverpool.ac.uk