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The department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) is central to the engineering education at the Institute of Technology, one of four faculties at Linköping University, and this regards both basic and applied knowledge. The research is based on industrial needs, and ranges from basic research to direct application in collaboration projects.
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LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY
hereby advertises a position as
Assistant Professor in Machine Learning with focus on remote sensing
formally based at the Department of Electrical Engineering
Description of the subject area
We are looking for an assistant professor (tenure track) in machine learning with focus on remote sensing, addressing method research on spatial modelling and surround sensing, important areas of ISY’s occupation within computer vision. The employment will be formally based at at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY), at the Computer Vision Laboratory, and will be part of the strategic research area within IT and mobile communication, ELLIIT (elliit.se), a collaboration between Linköping University, Lund University, Halmstad University, and Blekinge University. The employee is expected to contribute to ELLIIT’s broader goals within research, graduate education, collaboration, and dissemination.
The Computer Vision Laboratory has been identified by Vinnova as outstanding Swedish research environment within AI. The division focuses on research and teaching in the area of computer vision, in particular learning and modeling of machine perception and robot vision. For further details, see liu.se/en/organisation/liu/isy/cvl.
Duties
An assistant professor ́s duties may comprise educational responsibilities or research, and administrative tasks. Teachers are also responsible for monitoring developments within their subject areas and developments in the wider community that are significant to their role as a teacher at a higher education institution. The holder of the appointment will participate in teaching at undergraduate and advanced levels.
As an assistant professor, you are expected to conduct your own and independent research in machine learning at international level, and to build an externally financed research program, with focus on methods and algorithms for remote sensing, which are considered complementary to existing research at the Computer Vision Laboratory, as well as teach machine learning for computer vision courses within this sub-area. You are also expected to be active in enabling exploitation of research results, e.g., within applications remote sensing, and to contribute to ISY’s PhD education in the area.
For this position, the languages of instruction will be Swedish and English. The candidate must have excellent communication skills in English.
Employment as an assistant professor
The purpose of the employment as an assistant professor is to give the teacher the opportunity to develop independence as a researcher and to obtain both the scientific and teaching qualifications required for employment as associate professor.
For this position you will be employed for 5 years.
Qualifications
An applicant who has received a Degree of Doctor or has the equivalent academic expertise shall be qualified for this appointment. Priority shall be given to a person who has been awarded a doctoral degree or achieved equivalent academic expertise no more than five years before the deadline for applications for employment as research fellow. A person who has been awarded a doctoral degree or has achieved equivalent expertise at a previous date may, however, be considered in special circumstances. Special circumstances is here used to describe: sick leave, parental leave, and other similar circumstances.
Grounds for assessment
As grounds for assessment when appointing an assistant professor, the level of proficiency required to qualify for the appointment shall apply. As much attention shall be given to the assessment of teaching proficiency as to other conditions of eligibility.
For this position special weight is given to scholarly proficiency, followed by teaching proficiency, in turn followed by remaining proficiencies which should be considered equally. The successful candidate is expected to have significant international experience.
Scholarly proficiency must have been demonstrated through: original research resulting in publication, through planning and managing research and third-cycle courses and study programmes and through the ability to obtain research grants Scholarly proficiency can also be demonstrated through the ability to achieve results in research through collaboration with other teachers and through the ability to provide information about research.
Collaboration with society is an integral part of the research and educational mission of the higher education institution, where the ability to use collaboration with society as a means to raise the quality of the education and research, its relevance, dissemination, accessibility and application may constitute grounds for assessment.
Collaboration within research is demonstrated by the ability to disseminate, make accessible and benefit from research through the production and dissemination of popular scientific material, collaborative projects with external non-academic actors, commissioned consulting as expert, mobility projects, commercialisation, and activities undertaken within the framework of permitted secondary employment.
It is desirable that the successful candidate with another mother tongue than Swedish should be able to teach in Swedish within two years from being appointed. The applicant must be fluent in English.
Appointment procedure
The position will be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University on the advice of the Appointments Board. A letter of intent will be required of the applicants who make the short list for the position.
Starting date
By agreement.
Salary and employment benefits
The university applies individual salaries. More information about employment benefits at Linköping University is available here.
Union representatives
Information about union representatives, see Help for applicants.
Application procedure
Apply for the position by clicking the “Apply” button below. Your application must reach Linköping University no later than September 21.
Applications and documents received after the date above will not be considered.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives - diversity enriches our work and helps us grow. Preserving everybody's equal value, rights and opportunities is a natural part of who we are. Read more about our work with: Equal opportunities.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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