Connectionists: Postdoc Position at Bielefeld University, Germany

[Yaochu Jin]

Application deadline: March 9, 2022

The position on offer is part of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) research group of Professor Yaochu Jin, which was founded in October 2021. Within the framework of this Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, the NICE group focuses on understanding biological evolution, learning and development at a high abstraction level, and develops computational algorithms inspired from biological evolution, learning and development for real-world problem-solving, including data-driven optimization of complex systems, secure and privacy-preserving machine learning, and self-organising collective systems.

Your Tasks

*                     independent research in one of the abovementioned research areas, publishing research results as well as participation in securing new research grants (70 %)

*                     co-supervise PhD students and support teaching (20 %) possible coordination and organisation of research activities in the group (10 %).

*                     Employment is conductive to scientific qualification.
We offer

*                     salary according to Remuneration level 13 TV-L

*                     fixed-term (3 years, possibility of extension for another two years) (§ 2 (1) sentence 2 of the WissZeitVG; in accordance with the provisions of the WissZeitVG and the Agreement on Satisfactory Conditions of Employment, the length of contract may differ in individual cases)

*                     fulltime

*                     internal and external training opportunities

*                     wide range of health, consulting and prevention service

*                     reconcilability of family and working life

*                     job ticket for regional public transport network

*                     collegial working environment

*                     open and pleasant working atmosphere
Your Profile

*                     PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related discipline

*                     advanced experience in at least one of the following areas: privacy preserving machine learning, artificial life, self-organizing swarm robots, self-reconfigurable modular robots

*                     very good English language skills (written and oral)

*                     hands-on programming skills in Python or Matlab

*                     strong publication track record in mainstream conferences or high-quality journals

*                     strong interest in interdisciplinary research

*                     independent, cooperative and team-oriented way of working

*                     strong communication skills

Application Procedure

We are looking forward to receiving your application. For full consideration, your application should be received via either email (a single PDF document is required) sent to recruitment.techfak at uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:recruitment.techfak at uni-bielefeld.de> or post (see postal address). Please mark your application with the identification code: Wiss22124. Please note that the possibility of privacy breaches and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be excluded when communicating via unencrypted email. For Information on the processing of personal data.

Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yaochu Jin, Email: yaochu.jin at uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:yaochu.jin at uni-bielefeld.de>

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yaochu Jin, MAE, FIEEE
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI
Chair of Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering
Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
D-33619 Bielefeld, Germany
Email: yaochu.jin at uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:yaochu.jin at uni-bielefeld.de>
and
Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence
Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
Guildford, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
Email: yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk<mailto:yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk>

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