PERMANENT LECTURESHIP IN NATURAL COMPUTATION

[Riccardo Poli]

Dear All,

We invite applications from outstanding candidates for three
open-ended lectureships (equivalent to tenure-track assistant
professorship in North America) in the School of Computer Science, the
University of Birmingham, UK (see the advertisment appended). One of the
three posts is particularly relevant to members of this list, i.e.,
for someone with a strong background in natural computation (including
evolutionary, neural and other nature-inspired computations). However,
all three lectureships are open to all outstanding candidates.

The School of Computer Science has an active and strong research group
in evolutionary and neural computations, the EEBIC group, consisting
of four permanent academic staff (faculty) and two research fellows:

Julian Miller (Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning)
Riccardo Poli (Evolutionary Computation, GP, Computer Vision, NNs, AI)
Jon Rowe (Evolutionary Computation, AI)
Thorsten Schnier (Evolutionary Computation, Engineering Design)
Xin Yao (Evolutionary Computation, NNs, Machine Learning)
Jun He (Evolutionary Computation, from 1 Feb 2001)

There are other staff members in the school who are in the areas of
evolvable architectures of mind, medical imaging, robotics, and
reinforcement learning. The School has a strong AI group.

Our research has been supported by EPSRC, Marconi Communications, EU,
BT, DERA, and the Royal Society.

Further information about the new MSc mentioned in the following
ad can be found at: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/courses/mtp/

More information about the school and the posts can be obtained from
our web site or by contacting the head of school (not me), although
I'm happy to answer questions about research activities in natural
computation in the school.

Additional research posts in Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence in this School can be found at:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/school/jobvacancies



Riccardo

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                    SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
                   THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
                             England


                     Three Lecturership Posts


Applications are invited for three lectureship posts in Computer
Science, starting as soon as possible (September 2001 latest).

Postholders will be expected to contribute strongly to research,
teaching and administration within the School. As an exception,
consideration will be given for one of the posts to applicants whose
strength is mainly in teaching in an area of special benefit to the
School, for example systems analysis, software design, information
systems, human-computer interaction or natural computation (taken to
include evolutionary, neurally-inspired, and other nature-based
computational styles).

We intend one of the positions to be filled by someone able to
contribute to teaching in our new EPSRC-funded MSc in Natural
Computation.

Applicants may be in any area of research in computational
science. Generally, applicants should have, or soon expect to have, a
PhD in computer science or an appropriate, closely related field,
together with research experience as evidenced by publications in
leading international journals or conference proceedings.  However,
teaching-orientated applicants may be acceptable if they have an
appropriate, strong educational or industrial background and have a good
university degree in an appropriate field.

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For further information please see
   http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/jobs/lect01/

For the formal application procedure please see that webpage.
CLOSING DATE: 31 January 2001.
              (Late applications may be considered.)
Interviews are tentatively planned for late February / early March.

It may be possible to negotiate part-time work in special cases.

Informal enquiries may be made to

     Prof. John Barnden (Head of School)
     Tel:     (+44) (0)121 414-3711
     Email:   J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk


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