Senior Lecture position in Machine Learning (ML) within the ML team at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology (LTU). The ML team, led by Professor Marcus Liwicki, is one of WASP’s new affiliated groups of excellence at LTU.
About ML team
The Machine Learning (ML) subject at the department of Computer Science and Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, is now looking for excellent researchers contributing to our growing activities. The ML team is conducting fundamental research in all the aspects of machine learning for the welfare of the society with a specific focus on sustainable machine learning for innovative industry and infrastructure.
To strengthen our team on Machine Learning, we recruit excellent researchers working in one or more of the following areas:
- Sustainable Machine Learning, e.g., resource efficient methods, specific hardware (neuromorphic computing quantum computing)
- AI on topologically complex or distributed systems (distributed ML, graph NN)
Systems of Systems AI - Physics informed machine learning
Duties
Senior lecturers (equivalent to assistant professor positions at other universities) must be involved in education, educational development and research at the University. Senior lecturers must also keep abreast of the international development of the subject and supervise doctoral students. Senior lecturers are expected to contribute to the University’s development, to contribute to obtaining external funding to the subject and to participate in/show an interest in managerial and administrative tasks.
The duties of senior lecturers also include participating in research projects, communicating the outcomes via academic publications and being active in the research community within their own subject.
Furthermore, the senior lecturer is expected to collaborate with industry and society and to contribute to the activities of the WASP program and its national activities. The senior lecturer will be given opportunity to develop their independence as researcher and gain accreditation that may allow them to take other teaching positions with higher eligibility requirements (see Chapter 4, Section 12 a of the Higher Education Ordinance). Following application, the senior lecturer can apply for promotion to associate professor in accordance with Chapter 4, Section 12 c of the Higher Education Ordinance.