Connectionists: 3 positions - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Media & Data Science, University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science

[Roderick Murray-Smith]

This is part of a call for 3 permanent academic posts. All posts are available at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer/Reader (equivalent to Assistant or Associate Professor), subject to eligibility.  The salary will be on the Research and Teaching Grade, level 7, 8 or 9: £35,210 - £39,610 / £43,266 - £50,132 / £51,630 - £58,089 per annum.

We are looking for outstanding academics who can work in our Information, Data and Analysis Section in areas such as Machine learning, Information Retrieval, Vision and Sensor-based systems and Data Systems, to develop, lead and sustain research of international standard in Data Science & Media; to actively engage in teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level and to play a role in developing and executing School strategy, management and organisation.

The School has existing strengths in information retrieval and machine learning applied in contexts such as politics and social media, recommender systems, music information retrieval, conversational interaction and search. As part of our plans to expand our research and teaching activities in this area and collaborate more closely with our neighbours at BBC Scotland, we aim to recruit 3 new staff in the topics of Information Retrieval/Machine Learning/Data Systems. Our primary criterion is academic excellence in the areas above, and we are especially interested in applicants that have the potential to expand our existing strengths in media (including Social Media) and data science, including but not limited to topics such as:

* core machine learning technologies (e.g. graph convolutional networks, architectures for multimedia (video or audio) content)
* conversational interaction and search
* explainability/interpretability/ethics in information retrieval and/or machine learning, algorithmic bias, especially applied in a media context
* data science for communications media
* information retrieval from digital archives
* data science for politics and social media
* social media search & analytics
* music information retrieval
* algorithmic content generation
* personalisation including (context-aware) recommendation systems/interaction
* large-scale data and/or information retrieval systems
* user engagement modelling and predictive analytics

Apply online at http://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Vacancy Reference: 025440
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/worldchangerswelcome/priorityareas/#d.en.648786<https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/worldchangerswelcome/priorityareas/>

Closing date:  Wednesday, 10th July 2019

More details on positions available at: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/worldchangerswelcome/

The Information, Data and Analysis Section is led by Professor Roderick Murray-Smith, and has 14 academics, and 35 postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and PhD students active in this area. IDA section:  https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchsections/ida-section/

For informal enquiries please contact:
Professor Rod Murray-Smith Email: Roderick.Murray-Smith at glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Roderick.Murray-Smith at glasgow.ac.uk>


Professor Roderick Murray-Smith
Head of Section, Information, Data and Analysis Section,
Inference, Dynamics and Interaction Research Group
School of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Phone: +44 141 330 4984
Web: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~rod


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