Connectionists: faculty position U. Montreal

[Yoshua Bengio]

Hello,

A faculty position opening has been posted for my department (computer 
science and operations research,
University of Montreal, www.iro.umontreal.ca). The position is in the 
area of statistical learning algorithms.
U. Montreal is French-speaking and applicants are expected to be able to 
teach in (not necessarily perfect)
French after about a year. In the department, there are currently 3 
machine learning professors
(www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa), as well as a statistical NLP group, a 
vision group, a bio-informatics group,
and a large operations research group. For detailed application 
instructions please consult the attached document.
Applications should theoretically be sent by February 15th but later 
applications will also be considered
until the position is filled.

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*Université de Montréal*

*Faculté des arts et des sciences*

*Department of Computer Science and Operations Research*

 

The DIRO (Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle - 
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research) invites 
applications for two tenure-track positions in Computer Science and 
Operations Research at the Assistant Professor level, starting June 1^st 
, 2006. Preference will be given to applicants with a strong research 
program in the following or related areas:

 

·         Learning Algorithms (Statistical learning, data mining)

·         Operations Research (Stochastic simulation, modeling and 
optimization)

 

An excellent candidate working in a field different from those 
enumerated above would also receive consideration. Beyond demonstrating 
a clear potential for outstanding research, the successful candidates 
must be committed to excellence in teaching.

 

The Université de Montréal is the leading French-speaking University in 
North America. The DIRO offers B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in 
Computer Science and in bioinformatics, several bidisciplinary B.Sc. 
degrees, as well as a M.Sc. in electronic commerce and computational 
finance.  With 41 faculty members, 400 undergraduates, 200 M.Sc. 
students, and 120 Ph.D students, the DIRO is one of the largest Computer 
Science departments in Canada as well as one of the most active in 
research. Research interests of current faculty include bioinformatics, 
teleinformatics, intelligent tutoring systems, computer architecture, 
software engineering, artificial intelligence, computational 
linguistics, computer graphics and vision, automatic learning, 
theoretical and quantum computing, parallelism, modeling, simulation and 
optimization. See http://www.iro.umontreal.ca 
<http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/>.

 

*Requirements* :                Ph.D. in Computer Science, in Operations 
Research or a related area. Ability to teach and supervise students in 
French within one year.

 

*Salary* :                             Salary is competitive and fringe 
benefits are excellent.

 

Hardcopy applications including a resume, a statement of current 
research program, at least three letters of reference, and up to three 
selected preprints/reprints, should be sent to:

 

Jean Meunier, Professor and Chair

Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, FAS

Université de Montréal

C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville

Montréal (Québec), H3C 3J7

 

by February 15^tt , 2006.*  *Applications received after that date may 
be considered until the positions are filled.__

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In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be 
given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The Université de 
Montréal is committed to equity in employment and encourages 
applications from qualified women.


-- 
Yoshua Bengio 
Full Professor / Professeur titulaire 
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms / 
titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada en algorithmes d'apprentissage statistique
Département d'Informatique et Recherche Opérationnelle
Université de Montréal, 
adresse postale: C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7
adresse civique: 2920 Chemin de la Tour, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3T 1J8, #2194
Tel: 514-343-6804. Fax: 514-343-5834. Bureau 3339.
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa