Connectionists: Full Professor Position in Edge AI at U. Innsbruck, Austria

[Justus Piater]

The University of Innsbruck invites applications for the position of 

  University Professor of Computer Science with focus on Edge AI
  AIM AT Endowed Professorship for Edge AI

at the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics.
Computer Science and Physics.

It is a position in accordance with § 98 of the Austrian Universities’
Act (Universitätsgesetz - UG) and will be based on a civil-law
employment contract with the University on the basis of the Salaried
Employees Act (Angestelltengesetz). The contract will be concluded for
an unlimited period; the extent of employment is 100%.

The tender takes place within the framework of an endowed professorship
funded by the “Artificial Intelligence Mission Austria Support
Initiative (AIM AT Förderinitiative)“, financed by the Austrian Future
Fund, supported by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment,
Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK).

The position integrates into an attractive environment of existing
activities including machine learning for robotics and computer vision,
IoT Edge-Cloud-Computing, HPC and low-power sensor technologies.

Responsibilities include research and teaching in the area of Edge AI,
for example on the following topics:

• federated machine learning
• energy efficient and fault tolerant methods of machine learning 
• elastic, scalable, flexible, secure and data protection-compliant edge
  computing
• load balancing, scheduling, optimization and resource planning
• algorithms and architectures for specific applications of edge AI,
  e.g. in traffic management, manufacturing or medical technology
• resource constrained embedded machine learning

Collaborations with research groups at the Department of Computer
Science, the Research Areas and in particular with the Digital Science
Center of the University as well as with business, industry and
international research institutions are expected. The candidate should
reinforce or complement existing strengths of the Department of Computer
Science.

Teaching comprises courses in all degree programs of computer science,
especially at the Bachelor level and in the area of artificial
intelligence and edge computing. Additionally, supervision of Bachelor,
Master and PhD theses is expected.

This position also involves contributions to academic administration and
self-governance as well as to the department’s and faculty’s working
groups.

Employment requirements include

a) a degree in higher education in Austria or the equivalent abroad,
   pertinent to the position;
b) pertinent habilitation or comparable qualification (e.g. senior
   lecturer, associate professor);
c) publications in leading international peer-reviewed academic
   journals;
d) proven competence in Edge AI methods;
e) evidence of involvement in international research;
f) relevant international experience;
g) experience in acquiring and managing external research funds;
h) experience in application oriented or interdisciplinary contexts
i) pronounced teaching skills; 
j) management skills;
k) the ability to teach in English;
l) The ability to teach courses in German and English or, if necessary,
   the willingness to learn German for use in the context of university
   tasks.


Your application must have arrived by *17.05.2024* at Universität
Innsbruck Fakultäten Servicestelle Standort Technikerstraße 17, A-6020
Innsbruck (fss-technik at uibk.ac.at).

The University of Innsbruck is committed to increasing the percentage of
female employees especially in leading positions and therefore
explicitly invites women to apply. In the case of equivalent
qualifications, women will be given preference.

In line with the Collective Bargaining Agreement professors are in
remuneration group A 1, i.e., for a full-term professorship the basic
salary is 6.362,50 Euro (14 times). Depending on qualification and
experience a higher salary and facilities may be negotiated with the
Rector. The university also offers attractive additional benefits
(http://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen/).

The application should include: a curriculum vitae with a description of
your scholarly and professional career; a list of scientific
publications, lectures and other academic work and projects, including
projects funded by third parties; a description of completed, current
and intended research; a teaching concept and the five most important
works (full text or abstract). All documents have to be submitted in
digital form (E-Mail with pdf attachment).

The full, authoritative text in German (published in the official
bulletin of the University of 03.04.2024) and up-to-date information on
the state of the opening can be found here:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten-servicestelle/standorte/technikerstrasse/berufung/mip/mip.html

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University of Innsbruck, Austria
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