TWO SALARIED PHD POSITIONS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION

TWO SALARIED PHD POSITIONS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION AT DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY - Marie Curie ITN project EXPERT

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Applications are invited for two salaried 3-year Early Stage Researcher PhD positions in corpus-based approaches to machine translation. The positions have been awarded as part of the new EU FP7 Marie-Curie Initial raining Network EXPERT
(http://expert-itn.eu), concerned with the exploitation of empirical approaches to machine translation, including statistical machine translation and example-based machine translation.

The EXPERT project puts together researchers from six European universities (The University of Sheffield, Universidad de Malaga, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Dublin City University, Universiteit van Amesterdam, and University of Wolverhampton) and five translation services and technology providers (Pangeanic, Hermes and Translated, Celer Soluciones and WordFast).

The two projects allocated to Dublin City University are:
      (i) the investigation of how individual corpus-based translation approaches (TM, EBMT and SMT) can benefit from each other; and
      (ii) investigation of the ideal infra-structure for a computer-aided translation: a pipeline with NLP tools for pre/post-processing, SMT, EBMT and TM techniques which can form the basis of a hybrid CAT tool.

The work in both projects will focus on truly hybrid data-driven approaches to MT, in order to ultimately help facilitate the work of human translators. The research will be conducted as part of the MT group at the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) (http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/mt/) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://www.cngl.ie) in Dublin City University, with opportunities for collaborative work with several of the leading universities and industrial partners in EXPERT, and with the expectation of a 6-month secondment to 2-3 partners in this project. The team聮s location at DCU, just minutes from Dublin city centre, offers a conducive environment to research, collaboration and innovation with a wealth of amenities on campus, including restaurants, the state-of-the-art University Sports Complex and swimming pool and the Helix, one of Ireland聮s most impressive arts venues with three separate auditoria.

SALARY DETAILS
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The successful individual will be employed as a salaried researcher at Dublin City University, while studying towards his/her PhD. Salary rates and additional mobility and training allowances are as per the Marie Curie programme. For employment in the Ireland, the reference figure for gross salary is 41,458 euros/year (before both employer and employee contributions to tax/pension/national insurance etc. subject to the regulations of the host country), plus additional contribution towards mobility and training. 

The post is fixed term for three years with a start date of 14 January 2013 or soon after.

REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY
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Applicants should hold, at the very minimum, a primary honours degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics) and should have experience in natural language processing, machine translation or a related area.

Please check Section III.3 of the following link for further information on the Marie Curie scheme regarding eligibility criteria: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf. In particular, candidates cannot have lived in Ireland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their appointment. More details on eligibility can also be found on the project website (http://expert-itn.eu)

APPLICATION DETAILS
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For further details, including details of how to apply , please see: www4.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/graduate_research/pdfs/PhD%20opportunities%20EXPERT_DCU_Nov%202012.pdf

Closing date for applications: 21st December 2012

FACULTY POSITION:The Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile

FACULTY POSITION

http://www.dcc.uchile.cl

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile invites
candidates to send applications for a full-time tenure track position
in Computer Science. We are seeking applicants with strong commitment
to undergraduate and graduate teaching and research in Computer
Science at international standards.

The Department of Computer Science (www.dcc.uchile.cl) of the Faculty
of Engineering of the University of Chile is a leader in scientific
research and science education in this country, as well as in Latin
America with Ph.D. and M.Sc. graduate programs.

Some of the research areas developed in this department are Algorithms
and Data Structures, Cryptography, Collaborative Systems, Databases,
Computer Education, Logic, Computer Graphics, Programming Languages,
Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Semantic Web, Image
Recognition, Information Retrieval, Data Mining  and Robotics.

A PhD degree in Computer Science is required. Candidates should have
proven research abilites, backed by top-level publications in their
area of expertise, and be fluent in English.

Teaching will be conducted in Spanish, in which candidates are
expected to be fluent or willing to become fluent within a year.
Teaching experience is desirable as well.

Applications should include a cover letter containing a research,
teaching, and service statement; curriculum vitae; PhD diploma or
certificate; copies of the 5 most relevant publications ranked by
importance; and two confidential letters of recommendation. They
should be sent directly to the address indicated below. Applications
can be submitted anytime until January 25th, 2013.

Rank and salary (in Chilean pesos) will depend on academic background
and experience, and will follow the academic standards of the
University of Chile.

For further information please contact: Prof. Gonzalo Navarro,
(gnavarro@dcc.uchile.cl) or Prof. Nelson Baloian
(nbaloian@dcc.uchile.cl), phone (++56-2) 29780652

Scientific Software Engineer "Natural Language Processing

Scientific Software Engineer "Natural Language Processing for
Interactive Linking" at UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt,
Germany The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab has an opening for

a scientific software engineer

to create natural language processing (NLP) components for linking
unstructured text documents, work on an integrated toolkit for effective
NLP software development based on UIMA, and maintain a demo platform for
NLP applications. Manually enriching the text content with links to
other knowledge sources such as forums or Twitter is a tedious task. The
resulting automatic system will support users in using these sources to
find the relevant information. This is beneficial for example for
self-directed learning as well as for traditional classroom teaching.
The languages to be processed are English and German. The resulting
software will be made available in the Darmstadt Knowledge Processing
Software Repository, documented and released for use by the research
community: www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/research/current-projects/dkpro/
The position is ideal for individuals who have just completed their
studies and aim to collect work experience in a highly productive,
dynamic scientific work environment before moving on to a scientific or
an industrial career.

The position is initially limited to two years starting at the soonest
possible date. The payment is according to the German TV-TU public
service scale. The employment contract is subject to the final approval
of the project by the funding agency.

Requirements

The ideal candidate should have a strong background in computer science
and/or computational linguistics (M.Sc. or B.Sc.) and demonstrate very
good skills in software engineering and analytical thinking. Previous
work experience in one of the topics outlined above is a definite asset,
but is not an absolute requirement. Further, we expect excellent
communication skills and the ability to effectively cooperate in a team.

Mandatory:
- strong programming skills in Java and previous experience with the
relevant technologies (e.g. Eclipse IDE, JUnit, Maven);
- experience with developing Web applications (e.g. Apache Wicket,
Apache Tomcat, HTML, CSS, Javascript).

Optional:
- background in natural language processing and / or machine learning;
- experience with component-based systems (e.g. Spring Framework, Apache
UIMA); experience with open-source development, refactoring, issue
tracking.

The focus of UKP Lab (www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de) led by Prof. Dr. Iryna
Gurevych is on semantic information management, computational analysis
of user generated content and applied lexical semantic processing.
The group features a dynamic work environment, a highly motivated and
integrated research team and a substantial industrial cooperation
network. Since its establishment in summer 2006, it has received several
awards for fundamental research and sparked several open-source software
projects widely known in the community. Darmstadt is located in the
southern part of the Rhine Main Area, which hosts one of the strongest
IT-Clusters in Germany. The city is easily reachable in the center of
Germany: not even half an hour away from the Rhine-Main International
Airport in Frankfurt.

Interested candidates should send their application (CV, certificates,
references to software projects) to Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Nicolai
Erbs (preferably by email:
{gurevych, erbs} (at) ukp (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de).
Please direct any inquiries regarding this post to Nicolai Erbs.

Application deadline: December 15, 2012
Later applications will be considered as long as the position is not
filled. Upon consideration, you will be asked to complete some
assignments in software development.

Research Scientist Position

Research Scientist Position - www.textwise.com

Location: Syracuse/Rochester, NY

TextWise is seeking a creative and energetic research scientist to work on the semantic search and analytic solutions that help customers better find, analyze and understand their content. TextWise is a small company with a start-up atmosphere.  The team style is collaborative and high energy.  You will work daily with a team of scientists and interact with software engineers, quality assurance and product management.   

Responsibilities

• Design and perform evaluations of algorithms of search systems.
• Work on TextWise semantic technologies and improve search relevance.
• Design and implement machine learning algorithms to rank search results.
• Investigate and elaborate techniques for representing the semantic content of natural language texts.
• Perform corpus analysis for the discovery of linguistic and statistical patterns and features.
• Develop and maintain content databases for development and testing.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in computer science or related area, or equivalent experience.
• Skilled in statistical modeling algorithms in natural language processing and information retrieval.  Experience in language models and neural networks a plus.
• Machine learning techniques with experience in personalization and learning to rank a plus.
• Experience in developing and applying corpus-based methods in text analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong programing skills in Java, C/C++. Experience with MySQL, Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, map reduce, distributed computing is a plus.

Compensation

TextWise offers competitive rates based on your experience level as well as the ability to participate in our benefits program which includes health care benefits and a 401(k) program.

This position reports to the Chief Science Officer. Please send resumes and cover letters to job-ref-523@textwise.com

 

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NYC startup seeks CTO and data scientists to add to founding team. Company is advised by a top expert in machine learning and big data.

Candidates should possess experience experience working with algorithms related to search and information technologies like document categorization, statistical classification/clustering techniques, automated taxonomy and ontology building, and attribute mining. Experience architecting scalable web applications a plus.

If you have a start-up mentality, this job might be right for you. This is a project with a vision that requires a necessary tenacity to execute, and you will be responsible for helping making it happen. New York and remote talent sought.

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Open Positions in Computational Linguistics at the University of Munich:

Open Positions in Computational Linguistics
at the University of Munich:
Senior Researchers, PostDocs, PhD Fellowships

The University of Munich (LMU) is repositioning and
expanding its activities in computational linguistics and
natural language processing (NLP). As part of this effort,
Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schuetze has been appointed Chair of
Computational Linguistics and head of the Center for
Information and Language Processing (CIS).  The institute
will focus on linguistically informed statistical NLP while
building on CIS's rich tradition in information extraction
and retrieval.

The University of Munich is one of the top research
universities in Europe.  It was the highest ranked
institution on several measures in the Exzellenzinitiative
funding program organized by the German national science
foundation in 2012.

Munich and the Upper Bavaria area are among the regions in
Europe with the highest quality of living. The area is also
home to a large number of high-tech, services and
manufacturing companies, including many that use NLP
technology.

The CIS team has the following openings.  Salaries are in
the range 30000-50000 euros and depend on the type of
position and prior experience.  The positions can be filled
for a variety of terms ranging from 2 to 5 years.

* eHumanities group leader.  The successful candidate will
develop and lead CIS's research collaborations with
linguistics and humanities at LMU and apply for research
grants in this area at the national and European level.
Teaching classes in CIS's computational linguistics Bachelor
and Master programs is encouraged.

* Senior researcher (``Akademischer Rat auf Zeit'').
Successful candidates are expected to develop a program of
research in their own area of interest and to apply for
research grants at the national and European level.  Job
duties include teaching courses in CIS's computational
linguistics Bachelor and Master programs.

* 2 PostDocs.  Successful applicants will conduct their own
research in the general focus area of the institute,
linguistically informed statistical NLP methods and their
applications.  Topics of particular interest include
sentiment analysis, information extraction, machine
translation and semi-supervised learning for NLP.  PostDocs
will participate in the supervision of doctoral students and
contribute to the institute's research projects.

* 4 doctoral fellowships.  These fellowships are funded from
a variety of sources, including German national science
foundation (DFG), university funds and industry grants.  The
research will be carried out in the general area of
linguistically informed statistical NLP with specialization
in one of four focus areas: sentiment analysis, information
extraction, machine translation and semi-supervised learning
for NLP.

To apply send your application to
jobs@cis.uni-muenchen.de. Please include the following.

* a CV
* a statement of research interests (this can be short if
  you are applying for a junior position)
* an indication of which position(s) you are interested in
* your transcripts if you are applying for a doctoral fellowship
* the names and addresses of two references

LMU is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to
increasing the diversity of its staff.  We strongly
encourage applications from qualified women.  Applicants
with disabilities will be given preference in case of
equally qualified candidates.

Senior Data Scientist

Job Details

Zeeto Media (zeetomedia.com) is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing online performance marketing company and use sophisticated data driven mathematical methods to optimize our marketing and ad-buying efforts.
This role requires both hands-on algorithm development as well as player-coach technical leadership. You need to be both an individual contributor as well as a thought and technical leader, mentor, and senior, trained Algorithms Scientist who can help your team solve and implement statistical and machine learning algorithm problems.  In addition, it is essential that you work well with software engineering and can use and learn related software and database tools as needed.
This position will be in our corporate office in Downtown San Diego, CA.  You must be willing to live/relocate to this amazing city within a reasonable time frame.
What is Zeeto Media?

Zeeto Media is a premium content publisher headquartered in San Diego. We specialize in unique online advertising programs across web, social, mobile, and email; with a strong focus on performance (CPA, CPC, & CPL) driven campaigns.
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We offer a challenging, but rewarding career.  We work hard and play hard!
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Requirements

Ph.D. or equivalent work experience in Statistics, Applied Math, Machine Learning, CS, EE or related engineering discipline with focus, depth and current expertise in mathematical algorithms, probability theory, statistical modeling, and machine learning.
10+ years post-academic and recent experience focused on algorithm development and statistical analysis of large datasets and real-time events.
Proven ability to balance probability and statistical theory and algorithms science with pragmatic problem solving skills, and a track record of developing and applying advanced predictive algorithms and behavior models implemented in software that solve real world data problems.
Ability to assist in hiring, growing, and mentoring other data scientists to assist in modeling efforts and to work with the software development team to implement algorithms in a production web environment.
Experience in modeling and optimizing various aspects of online advertising, as well as general familiarity with the online marketing space, are a plus.
Technical

• R, Matlab, or equivalent statistical computing platform
• SQL
• Experience with Big Data environments such as Cassandra or MongoDB a plus
• Programming/software development experience, particularly with php and/or Python, also a plus. for details see here 

Invitation for a tenure-track faculty position specialized in the area of health informatics

Job Posting Website: http://engineering.wayne.edu/cs/about/jobs.php

Organization/Institution: Wayne State University
Department: Department of Computer Science

Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position specialized in the area of health informatics at the assistant professor level beginning in Fall 2013.  Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related field and to demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching and research.  Candidates with research interests in the area of health informatics, including human-computer interaction, information retrieval and visualization, data mining, natural language processing, and health data management, for both community health informatics and personalized medicine, will receive the strongest consideration. However, excellent candidates in other areas will also be considered. This position is part of the university's effort in building Interdisciplinary Program for Obesity Research and Education, and the candidate is expected to work independently as well as to collaborate closely with faculty from the Obesity Center.

The Department of Computer Science has 23 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, with research strengths in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Graphics and Visualization, Software Engineering, and Computer Systems. The research in the department is also highly interdisciplinary with active collaborations with faculty in medicine, engineering, and sciences. The Department has six NSF CAREER recipients, and an external funding exceeding $6M annually. The department currently has over 80 full-time Ph.D. students, along with 60 Master's students, and 293 undergraduate majors. Further information about the department can be found athttp://www.cs.wayne.edu.

The Department of Computer Science is in the College of Engineering.  The College has an annual research expenditure of about $20M. Information about the College of Engineering can be found at http://engineering.wayne.edu. Wayne State University is a Carnegie Research Extensive University offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges, to more than 32,000 students. Wayne State has approximately $260M annual research expenditures and more than 11,000 graduate students. Wayne State University, in partnership with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, has a key role in Michigan's University Research Corridor initiative (http://urcmich.org/) and is closely involved with TechTown, the area's business incubator (http://techtownwsu.org/).  In addition, within a 20-mile radius of Wayne State campus, several Metro Detroit suburbs are consistently ranked in top 100 in Money Magazine's Best Places to Live (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/best-places/2012/states/MI.html).

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a cover letter, statement of research and teaching, and curriculum vitae with the contact information of three references. For full consideration, applications must be received by January 10, 2013. 

Apply online at jobs.wayne.edu (position number: 039046). Nominations and inquiries should be directed to Prof. Ming Dong, the Chair of Search Committee, at mdong@wayne.edu.

Wayne State University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer.

POSTDOC researcher in the field of WEB DATA ANALYTICS.

The Web Information Systems research group at TU Delft (the
Netherlands) has an opening for a qualified

POSTDOC researcher in the field of WEB DATA ANALYTICS.

Description: The position is in the area of web data analytics for the
social web. In the context of national and international projects,
this part of the WIS group's research is aimed at exploring novel
techniques for modeling and analyzing users on the social web, for
example for the purpose of adaptation and personalization. This
research has been published in a range of high-quality conferences and
journals in recent years such as UMAP, WebSci, SIGIR, ACM HT etc.
These research projects involve partnerships with external partners in
domains such as cultural heritage, e-learning, crisis management, etc.
(see http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/web-analytics/ ).
The position includes also the supervision of PhD students studying this topic.
Participation in education is possible.

Requirements: Candidates are required to have a completed PhD.
Specialization and a proven track record is needed in user modeling,
web mining, web science, information retrieval, or related fields.
Needed qualifications for candidates include proven research talent,
relevant programming skills, experience with programming in the social
web, and software development in a team. Candidates are expected to
have an excellent command of English, and good academic writing and
presentation skills.

Employment: More on the WIS group can be found at
http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl . The position is available for two
years, ideally starting early 2013. The terms of employment are in
accordance with the Dutch Collective Labour Agreement for Research
Institutes ("CAO-onderzoeksinstellingen"). Expats may apply for a
profitable tax ruling, which, if approved by the tax authorities,
would mean not having to pay taxes over 30% of your income.

Information and Application: For more information on the position,
contact prof. Geert-Jan Houben (g.j.p.m.houben@tudelft.nl). To apply,
applicants should send him by email (mention "PD-WDA"  in the subject)
a curriculum vitae with a list of publications. The deadline for
applications is December 1, 2012.

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

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                        SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP PDF enclosed)
                           >> Deadline: December 05, 2012 <<

                        Second International Conference on
        Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2013)
        Organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, India
                           March 09-11, 2013 Allahabad, India
                          Conf website: http://iitm.iiita.ac.in

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Dear Colleagues,

It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that IIIT Allahabad is organizing the
Second International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and
Multimedia (IITM 2013) during March 09-11, 2013 with pre-conference workshop on
08 March, 2013. We invite your good-self to contribute your original and
unpublished research findings related to the topics listed under following four
Tracks:

Track 1: Interaction Design, Innovative Methods and Devices of IITM
Track 2: Graphics, Animation, Image and Multimedia Technologies
Track 3: Cognitive Models, Softcomputing, AI and Machine Learning
Track 4: Speech and Language Processing Technologies

Each track is being coordinated by two world-renowned experts of the area. The
list of various topics is included in the attached conference Call for Papers
(CFP PDF) or can be seen on the conference website. The selected papers would be
published in the proceedings of the conference in print as well as in electronic
(on CD) form. Selected top quality papers presented during the conference, duly
extended & reformatted, would further be considered for publication in selected
international journals/ digital library.

We also request you to give it a wider publicity by forwarding the email to your
other colleagues/ researchers of academics, industrial, scientific and
engineering fraternity.


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline           :   December 05, 2012
Notification of acceptance              :       January 25, 2013
Camera-ready manuscripts due      :     February 10, 2013


For any further information regarding conference visit
http://iitm.iiita.ac.in or email us at iitm@iiita.ac.in /iitm.acm@gmail.com

Looking forward for your favorable contributions

TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S) LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S)
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

The Department of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey, seeks applications from scholars conducting innovative research in the areas of health informatics, data science, and/or interaction and design in digital environments who value a climate of cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of discoveries and new ideas in response to local and global challenges.

Health Informatics

In anticipation of the merger of Rutgers University with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers welcomes applicants with background and research interests overlapping Information Science and Health Informatics, including but not limited to:

•       Health information and communication technologies from the health provider (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals) and/or consumer perspective;
•       Technology-based interventions to improve public health through wellness promotion;
•       Innovative research in designing technologies to support healthy living of an aging population;
•       Research oriented in health applications through advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach, knowledge integration, mobile technologies, or novel user interface designs.

Data Science

The phenomenon of “big data” is spreading in both industry and academia.  We seek researchers with interests including but not limited to:

•       New technologies for analytics, modeling and visualization;
•       New methods for collaboration with working scientists to further scientific analysis;
•       Innovative research on the process of moving data to repositories, curation, management, and exploiting/mining the data;
•       Explorations of questions involving policy, ethics, and related aspects of large data collections;
•       Users of “big data” including information seeking, user education and preferences; communication with other users and with systems, and techniques for users to exploit/mine data.

Interaction and Design in Digital Environments

Individuals and groups interact with one another in a variety of digital environments, and understanding the relationship between these interactions and the spaces in which they occur is a new concern.  We encourage applicants with expertise including but not limited to:


•       User experience design in large-scale social networks;
•       Design of systems to support collaboration and interaction at a variety of scales, from small groups to large-scale social networks;
•       Understanding information and communication behaviors in large-scale digital environments.

Qualified applicants to the Department of Library and Information Science studying one or more of these areas are invited to apply for a faculty position.   Our department is ranked 6th in the United States among Library and Information Science programs by U. S. News & World Report.

The scholarship of successful candidates will connect to one or more of the four problem-based research foci that have guided our school’s hiring in recent years: health and wellness; global media and democracy; organizations, policy, and leadership; and social media interaction & collaboration. We especially seek candidates from under-represented groups who would further our commitment to scholarly excellence and community diversity.  For more information about the Department of Library and Information Science and the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, including school-wide research interests and active faculty searches in the school’s Communication and Journalism and Media Studies departments, see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu.

Qualifications: All candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant field no later than May 2013.   The ideal applicant’s program of research should complement the research foci of current faculty. Applicants should have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of top-tier peer-reviewed publication as well as evidence of effective teaching. Senior level applicants should provide evidence of integrative leadership in research, instruction, and external funding.  Letter of application should address these points, and clearly articulate the candidate’s fit to specific departmental and school-wide research interests.  Duties of the successful applicant(s) include undergraduate and graduate teaching in the candidate’s field of scholarship, an active program of research in the candidate’s area of scholarly expertise, and service contributions to the advancement of the academic profession, to the effective operation of the university, and to society at large in accordance with university policy expectations for tenure-track appointments.

Submissions: Applications may be submitted beginning November 2, 2012 and must be received no later than December 1, 2012.  Submit to: http://its.scilsnet.rutgers.edu/facultysearch/. Include letter of application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and contact information of three references (no letters at this time please). Please do not submit applications to more than one department.  If you see a potential fit in more than one department please indicate this in your application letter.

Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research universities in North America.  The School of Communication and Information is a founding member of the iSchools Caucus. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of women and minority candidates. As evidence of that, among peer public institutions (public universities in the Association of American Universities), Rutgers is 4th in the nation for full-time female faculty, 14th in the nation for full-time African-American faculty, and 15th in the nation for full-time total minority faculty. Among those same schools Rutgers ranks 2nd in the percentage of degrees earned by African Americans, 8th for Asians, and 11th for Latinos.