Postdoc position in IR at the University of Glasgow

The Information Retrieval (IR) research group of the School of Computing Science in the University of Glasgow opens a new opportunity for a full time research position. 

Research Assistant

in Information Retrieval 

Grade 6: £26,264 - £29,541 per annum

You will join the Terrier IR team to contribute to the SMART FP7 project http://www.smartfp7.eu/, which aims to build a search engine for smart cities based on social and sensor networks. You will be developing new effective and efficient information retrieval models to facilitate access to events in the physical world. Programming experience is essential, while experience in distributed large-scale data processing algorithms and concepts such as Hadoop MapReduce is desirable.

Informal enquiries/questions can be made to

iadh.ounis@glasgow.ac.uk

craig.macdonald@glasgow.ac.uk

For further information and to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/17NMS1X (Deadline for application 26 May 2013)