-------- Original Message -------- Subject: JOB: Fellowship/Junior academic posts at Edinburgh Informatics Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:40:21 +0000 From: Bob Fisher <rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk> Organization: School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh To: tef@cgl.ucsf.edu Fellowship/Junior academic posts in Informatics The University of Edinburgh has announced a large number of 5 year fellowships which gradually transform into permanent academic posts over the 5 years. The academic posts will be entry level (Lecturer/Assistant Professor). The School of Informatics is one of the world's top research leaders in computer science/informatics. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top research universities, in one of the world's most pleasant cities. One of the priority areas is 'Data Intensive Research', which can include computer vision/image analysis researchers. (The other 5 non-imaging areas are listed below.) Your main focus MUST be on the 'Data Intensive' aspects, but the source of the data could be imagery/video and its linkage to other large data sources, eg web, large image databases, broadcast TV streams, etc. These posts are for top candidates only. You MUST have a minimum of 2 excellent publications, such as in PAMI or ICCV/ECCV/ACCV/CVPR oral papers. Anything less will not be considered in this recruitment round. The general advert is at : http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vac... and there are a small number of Informatics-specific details at: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.furtherdet... There are three closing dates: 16th January, 29th February and 16th April 2012. You can apply at any of them. There are 5 other priority areas in case you have colleagues who might be interested: - Software Engineering: model-driven development, testing, verification and security - Computational Cognitive Science - Systems: particularly operating systems and multicore - Networks - Data Intensive Research - Modelling & Simulation For queries about the Data Intensive area, contact me: rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk For queries about the other themes, contact the Head of School: Prof. David Robertson, dr@inf.ed.ac.uk ================ Prof. Robert B. Fisher, School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh Dean of Research, College of Science and Engineering 1.26 Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK +44-(131)-651-3441 (direct line), +44-(131)-651-3443 (secretary) Fax: +44-(131)-650-6899 E-MAIL: r.b.fisher A@T ed.ac.uk http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Robert_Fisher.html The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.