Connectionists: Tenure Track Professor in Machine Learning

[Kaski Samuel]

http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/987/

Aalto University School of Science (Helsinki, Finland) invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Machine Learning. The vacancy at the Department of Computer Science is open to outstanding individuals who hold a doctorate and are interested in an excellent opportunity to pursue a successful scientific career. The call is open on the Assistant Professor levels of the tenure track system. While we expect most successful applicants to have carried out at least one postdoctoral period, all outstanding candidates will be considered.

We are looking for a professor to either further strengthen our strong research fields, with keywords including statistical machine learning, probabilistic modelling, Bayesian inference, kernel methods, computational statistics, or complementing them with deep learning. Collaboration with other fields is welcome, with local opportunities both at Aalto and University of Helsinki. A joint appointment with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT (http://hiit.fi/), a joint research centre with University of Helsinki, can be negotiated.

Applications with attachments for the tenure track position are to be addressed to the Dean of the Aalto University School of Science and the review of the position will begin on 6 November 2016. The position will remain open until filled. Further details of the application procedure are available at http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/987/.

Aalto CS

With nine professors and ca. 100 PhD students and postdocs working in machine learning, data mining, and probabilistic modelling, Aalto Department of Computer Science is one of Europe’s leading centres of research in the field of the call. The current faculty’s strength is apparent in e.g. the high volume of extremely competitive funding from the Academy of Finland (equivalent to National Science Foundation) and the European Research Council (ERC), as well as the volume of high-achieving international students entering the MSc and PhD programs in Machine Learning and Data Mining. Furthermore, as the foremost CS educator in Finland, the department is home to the majority of the best Finnish students. In total, the department hosts 44 professors with diverse interests, forming a fertile environment for cross- disciplinary collaborations. On a larger scale, as a technology-friendly, yet small country, Finland offers ample opportunities for low-overhead collaboration with in!
dustrial and government partners as well.

Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six schools with more than 400 professors. Our campuses are located in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland.