Connectionists: Canada Faculty Position in Computer Vision or Signal Understanding with Machine Learning

[Thomas Trappenberg]

Tenure Stream Position for Computer Vision or Signal Understanding with
Machine Learning

The Faculty of Computer Science (www.cs.dal.ca) at Dalhousie University (
www.dal.ca) invites applications for a tenure stream faculty position with
a focus on Machine Learning in Computer Vision or Signal Understanding. The
position is at the Assistant or Associate Professor level depending on
qualifications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, object
detection and pattern recognition, image, video, and sound analysis, and
the application of Deep Learning or other machine learning approaches to
the above.

The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University currently has more
than 25 faculty members, 738 undergraduate majors and 254 Master's and
doctoral students. It offers Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of
Applied Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Master of Applied
Computer Science, and PhD programs. The Faculty also partners with other
Faculties in the University to offer the Master of Electronic Commerce,
Master of Health Informatics, and Master of Science, Computational Biology
and Bioinformatics programs, and is an active participant in the
Interdisciplinary PhD program.

Dalhousie University is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia (
http://www.halifaxinfo.com), which is the largest city in Atlantic Canada
and affords its residents a high quality of life. Dalhousie University is a
member of the U15 research-intensive universities in Canada, and the
Faculty of Computer Science is a research-intensive faculty within
Dalhousie. The Faculty's areas of research concentration can be found
at: http://www.dal.ca/faculty/computerscience/research-
industry/research_concentrations.html.

The Faculty welcomes applications from outstanding candidates in Computer
Science. An applicant should have a PhD in Computer Science or related area
and be comfortable teaching core computer science courses. Evidence of a
strong commitment to and aptitude for research and teaching is essential.
The ideal candidate will be open to collaborative research within the
Faculty.

Applications should include an application letter, curriculum vitae, a
statement of research and teaching interests, sample publications, and the
names, email addresses and physical addresses of three referees. The
application must include the Equity Self-Identification form (see the URL
below). All documents are to be submitted to the email address below as PDF
files.

Applicants should provide their referees with the URL of this advertisement
(see below), and request that they forward letters of reference by email to
the same address.

Applications will be accepted until December 15, 2016.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and
Permanent Residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is
committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and
inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from qualified
Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons,
women, persons of minority

sexual orientations and gender identities, and all qualified candidates who
would contribute to the diversity of our community.

Submission address for application documents and reference letters:
cvml-search at cs.dal.ca

Location of this advertisement:
https://www.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/faculty/computerscience/temp/position_com
puter_vision_search.pdf

Dalhousie's Priority Research Areas:
http://www.dal.ca/research/about_research_atdal/PriorityResearchAreas.html

Self-Identification form: www.dal.ca/becounted/selfid
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