Connectionists: Permanent academic position - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Media & Data Science, University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science

[Roderick Murray-Smith]

Academic post 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.

Applications for the post are welcome in any research areas of Information, Data and Analysis (IDA) Section of the school, including Machine Learning, Data Systems, Computational Interaction, Vision & sensor-based systems and Information Retrieval. The School has recently invested in a Media & Data Science research theme, recruiting experts in information retrieval and computational political/media science. The school now aims to further strengthen Media & Data Science theme by recruiting a post-holder that can complement the existing strengths within the School, and can develop, lead and sustain research of international standard in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Data Systems/Information Retrieval; contribute to teaching, assessment, project supervision and curriculum design at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and participate in School management and organisation.

The School has existing strengths in machine learning and information retrieval applied in contexts such as Music Information Retrieval, Politics and Social media, 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, the Section aims to recruit three academic posts in the topics of Machine Learning, Data Systems, Computational Interaction and Information Retrieval that have the potential to expand our existing strengths in 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/fairness in artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithmic bias, especially applied in a media and search context
*       data science for communications media
*       data science for politics and social media
*       social media analytics
*       algorithmic content generation
*       personalisation including (context-aware) recommendation systems/interaction
*       large-scale data system engineering

Apply online at http://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Vacancy Reference: E20420
More details on positions available at: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/worldchangerswelcome/priorityareas/#/mediaanddatascience

Closing date:  12th December 2019

The Information, Data and Analysis Section is led by Professor Roderick Murray-Smith, and has 17 academics, and 46 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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