Tenure-Track Faculty Position at the University of Michigan School of Information

https://www.si.umich.edu/prospective-faculty/position-call-information-analysis-retrieval

The School of Information at the University of Michigan (UMSI) seeks a tenure-track professor at the assistant professor level in the areas of information analysis, information retrieval, or "big data." While we encourage applications from all areas of information analysis and retrieval, we are particularly interested in candidates with strong interest and expertise in creating novel techniques for mining large-scale text, behaviors, and scientific data and in developing visualizations or other interactive tools for data analysis. Applications of particular interest include, but are not limited to, scientific and health data analysis, text analysis, social media analysis and digital humanities. 

The mission of the School of Information is to create and share knowledge to help people use information -- with technology -- to build a better world. A successful candidate will be committed to, and will directly contribute to our goal of being the best research and teaching institution for the understanding and design of information and its technologies in service of people and society. 

The School is home to vibrant research and teaching programs, with 36 FTE professors, and over 400 students. We offer a Ph.D., a Master of Science in Information, a Master of Health Informatics (joint with the School of Public Health), and a Bachelor of Science in Information. 

Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual general fund budget of more than $1.7 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.6 billion. 

Qualifications: 

• Ph.D. in an area such as computer science, information science, statistics, informatics, computational linguistics, or related fields concerned with information analysis and retrieval 
• Demonstrated potential and strong commitment to successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level 
• Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact 
• A strong commitment to connecting information, technology, and people that values interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity 

Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. For questions about potential fit and your application please contact Dr. Qiaozhu Mei (qmei@umich.edu). 

Application materials required: cover letter, curriculum vitae (CV), research statement, teaching statement, three representative publications, and contact information for three references. For more information or to apply, please visithttp://apply.interfolio.com/27182. 

In addition to this position, the UMSI is also looking for applicants in the area of human-computer interaction, communication and technology, and health informatics.

Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Machine Learning & Big Data/Data Science at NYU Shanghai

New York University, one of the largest and most highly regarded private
universities in the United States, has established itself as a Global Network
University with three degree-granting campuses - New York, Shanghai, and
Abu Dhabi - complemented by 12 additional academic centers across five
continents. NYU has identified Data Science as one target area for growth, and
is planning to add multiple tenured/tenure track faculty members across its
campuses and across several departments.

NYU Shanghai is the first Sino-US higher-education joint venture to grant
a degree that is accredited in the US as well as in China. A research
university with liberal arts and sciences at its core, it resides in one
of the world's great cities, which is also a vibrant intellectual community
(http://shanghai.nyu.edu/). NYU Shanghai will recruit scholars who are
committed to our global vision of transformative teaching and innovative
research. New York University Faculty and students circulate within the
network in pursuit of common research interests and cross-cultural,
interdisciplinary endeavors, both local and global. The terms of employment in
NYU Shanghai are comparable to U.S. institutions. Faculty may also spend time
at NYU New York and other sites of the global network, engaging in both
research and teaching opportunities,  and have opportunities to collaborate
with the many research centers and groups at NYU, including our recently
launched centers for Data Science (CDS) and Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). 

NYU Shanghai invites outstanding applications for two tenure-track or tenured
faculty appointments in Computer Science. Applicants to the first position
should have an active research program in machine learning and be dedicated
to making fundamental technical contributions in this vital area. Applicants
to the second position should have research interests related to big data and
data science as broadly defined, including database systems, data mining,
information retrieval, natural language processing, data visualization, and
applications in areas such as medicine, business, and the natural and social
sciences. Applicants must have demonstrated excellence in both research and
teaching. When discussing their teaching experience and interests, candidates
should identify courses they could teach both within and outside their
specialty. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. or equivalent by the time
of appointment.

Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of research and
teaching interests, electronic copies of up to 5 recent relevant publications,
and the names and addresses of three or more individuals willing to provide
letters of reference, by the application deadline of Jan. 31, 2015. Please
visit our website at http://shanghai.nyu.edu/about/work/faculty-positions for
instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions,
please e-mail shanghai.faculty.recruitment@nyu.edu. NYU-Shanghai is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Faculty Position at UC Berkeley School of Information (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor)

The UC Berkeley School of Information is seeking a tenured or tenure-track professor with expertise in information organization. 

Candidates should have a demonstrated record of relevant research, with expertise in one or more of the following:

• search and information retrieval
• automated content analysis, including
• applications to normalizing data and creating metadata, and/or applications to analyzing social science text, such as political text, or other information rich text such as biomedical, legal, or marketing text; 
• practical computational approaches for analyzing information in non-textual formats;
• conceptual modeling of information systems;
• computational approaches to cognition;
• semantic representation and annotation;
• vocabulary and metadata design;
• classification and standardization including policy considerations;
• category learning at scale; 
• data wrangling.

A successful candidate will possess appropriate technical expertise and research excellence, and be committed to working on issues related to information and/or information system design and development in a multidisciplinary setting. Relevant professional or industry experience, including hands-on experience with large-scale collections, is also desirable.

Additionally, a successful candidate must be able to teach a course in the design, structure, and use of category systems, data architecture and design for information systems, metadata creation and normalization, and data interchange formats and standards. Additional instructional topics that are desired but not required are database design, natural language processing, and information retrieval and ranking.

Applications are due December 15, 2014.

For more details, see the full job description at: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/ischooljobs/faculty-info-org

One Post-doc Position in Social/Mobile Computing (Dalian University of Technology, China)

One Post-doc Position in Social/Mobile Computing (Dalian University of Technology, China)

The Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory at Dalian University of Technology (DUT Phone Lab; http://dutphonelab.org/) conducts interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research in social computing and mobile computing. The Lab now has 30+ members, including 10+ PhD students from seven countries on this planet.

We are opening one full-time post-doc position. The successful applicant is expected to work on topics like computational social science, (scholarly/social) data analytics, or mobile social networks. The salary will be around 6,000 RMB/month, plus other Benefits. We will offer excellent working conditions.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Feng XIA

Working location: Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China

Start date: ASAP (Negotiable)

Duration: 2 years

Qualifications:

1. Applicants shall have PhD in related disciplines.

2. A good command of the English language (in speaking and in writing) is required.

3. Research experience in related areas is a plus.

Application procedure:

Please submit your application via email to Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org). The application should include a detailed CV (including email addresses of two referees), a brief statement of research plan (no more than one page), and at least two best scientific documents/publications written by yourself (in English). There is no deadline for application, but we will not accept applications once the positions are fulfilled. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible. 

For further information regarding these positions, please contact Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org).

All the best,

Feng

--

Feng XIA (夏锋), PhD, SMIEEE, MACM

Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor of Computer Science

Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory  (DUT Phone Lab: http://dutphonelab.org)

School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China

Email: f.xia@ieee.org; f.xia@acm.org

URL: http://FengXia.NET

IBM University Relations BlueMix Contest

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Dear All,

In perhaps one of the largest Bluemix Campaign to reach out to the
academia, IBM India University Relations team announces a Bluemix Contest
which is open to all University students in India.

The contest is open and we are accepting entries till 15th Nov.
Please encourage your faculty contacts in urging students to participate
and win exciting prizes including some cool early Bird Prizes for the first
40 entries!

To help and support students build apps on Bluemix platform UR is
conducting a  20+ cities face to face session marathon in collaboration
with IIT Kharagpur.



Dear Sir / Madam,

In an endeavor to equip students with new age challenges and become job
providers then job seekers University Relations team of IBM India has
launched a IBM Bluemix contest for students. IBM Bluemix is a new Platform
as a Service (PaaS) offering from IBM.

The program is about providing a platform for students where they can learn
to convert their brilliant ideas in to applications and take it to the
market in the shortest possible time. To help them further we are
conducting overview sessions on IBM Bluemix at 20+ cities in India.
There are exciting Prizes to be won as part of the contest.

Details on the dates & venues of the Bluemix introductory sessions as well
as BlueMix contest are available at the following link
https://university-relations.in/wps/portal/urbluemixcampaign

Request you to please forward this information to interested students &
faculty.

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IBM India University Relations
Web: http://www.ibm.com/in/ur

Thanks & Regards,

Sundaresh Joshi

iOS Developer at GIC APPLE+IBM Factory

IBM India Pvt Limited

Research Associate: Music IR Interfaces, Nottingham UK

As part of an £5.2M EPSRC Programme Grant (FAST: http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/L019981/1 ), the Mixed Reality Lab, in Nottingham UK, is advertising the following position:

Research Associate/Fellow - Music IR Interfaces (HCIR)

- Tool oriented (e.g. web development activities) research into exploring and discovering music

- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI268514

- Deadline: 15th Oct 2014

The FAST project is a collaboration between Nottingham, Queen Mary (London), and Oxford, and has several project partners including the BBC, Microsoft, The Internet Archive & Omnifone. The project is focused on the future of music information (about how it is made, by whom, on what instruments, where, and so on), and then how people will enjoy and consume music when users can use this information to explore, discover, and understand music. Nottingham's role in the project is to study how music is produced, and then also how people might explore music with better information about it. Queen Mary are the project lead and are focusing on analysing music. Oxford is focused on supporting the process of music production with technology.

Learn more about Nottingham's Mixed Reality Lab, our world leading staff, and the exciting research we do:

- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/mixedrealitylab/index.aspx

best

Max

Research Assistant Position in Patent Mining- University of Hildesheim, Germany

The University of Hildesheim, Germany, Dept. for Information Science & Natural Language Processing offers a position as research assistant (TV-L E 13, 100%).

The employment is initially for one year as part of a maternity and parental leave replacement to work on a research project in Trend Mining in patents and scientific literature, a funded collaboration between the University of Hildesheim and FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure.
Job Requirements:

₋    A degree in Information Science or a related field (Master, Magister, or Diplom)
₋    Ability to work independently and to work in a small team environment, willingness to engage in interdisciplinary research work
₋    Excellent knowledge of English (Good knowledge of German is also desired)
₋    Programming skills (e.g. JAVA, C++, XML, GUI development)
₋    Knowledge in some of the following areas:
₋    Information Retrieval
₋    Text Mining
₋    Clustering
₋    Patents and Patent information systems
₋    Analysis of information needs and behaviour
₋    Usability Methods and Visualisation

The Endowment University of Hildesheim is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity employer. Members of the under-represented gender are encouraged to apply.

Applications from applicants with a disability will be given preference if equally qualified.

For further enquiries please contact:
Prof. Dr. C. Womser-Hacker, E-Mail: womser@uni-hildesheim.de

The application should include the typical material (Cover Letter, CV, transcripts, publications)

Closing Date: October 20, 2014

Reference: Kennziffer 2014/83

Please send your application by mail to womser@uni-hildesheim.de

online version:

http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/service/stellenmarkt/stellenanzeige/artikel/201483-research-assistant-tv-l-e-13-100/

Informatica Campus Hiring Experience

Hi Sir,

Please find below some tips for Informatica recruitment event, do share it with the juniors. 

For the written test, 90% of the questions I had were Technical types, (but my seniors had Apti for the most part) So be prepared in everything.

 

Concentrate on DBMS, OS, most of the programming concepts, puzzles, networks etc.

For the interview, make sure you are good with basics on the core concepts from above mentioned topics like UNIX commands, DBMS concepts, OS concepts, different puzzles, different programming techniques. (I have heard that you have some problems in UNIX, but that is very important, brush up everything you can)

Puzzles, problem solving and programming techniques are intended to check the approach/ logical thinking rather than the solution, basically the spot light is on the way you reach the solution or the way you proceed. So even if you dont get the solution, it still shouldn't matter if your approach is very good.

HR is normal, don't worry, just be prepared with the usual HR questions.

Be confident and positive in the interview. Dont freak out, have a cool mind. 

Keep calm and good luck !

APT cyber security course

Dear sir,

This is advanced APT cyber security course. please put it in group. this course is free for first 100 members of CSI bangalore.

https://www.udemy.com/certified-apt-defender/?couponCode=csibangalore

This course is most fast moving and current course.

PhD position in Multimedia indexing at Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France

http://www.eurecom.fr/en/content/multimedia-indexing

DESCRIPTION

This thesis is part of a collaborative project to analyze the multimedia information
that is published on the Internet about cultural festivals, either by professional
or by the public. These data are diverse (text, images, videos) and published on various
sources (twitter, blogs, forums, catalogs). The project aims at analyzing and structuring
this information in order to better understand the public and the cultural practices, and
to recombine them to build synthetic view of these collections. This thesis will focus
on the aspects of video analysis and multimodal fusion.

This thesis will tackle two problems:
- to develop techniques for the automatic analysis of video content, so that the collected
data may be categorized in predefined categories. This component will be used to structure
the collections and better understand their content and their evolution.
- to study mechanisms to recombine the multimedia content, and build synthetic views of the
collections. Several strategies will be studied, depending on whether these views are intended
for professional users or for the general public.

The research will focus in particular on mechanisms to automatically construct semantic classifiers,
and on fusion techniques for the results of these classifiers. The recombination aspects will
involve methods for the selection of important segments, followed by an assembly strategy according
to the expected objective. A specific attention will be paid to evaluation techniques that will
allow to measure the performance of different approaches.

APPLICATION

PhD applicants are expected to have a Master degree, with honors. This research
involves a strong knowledge in signal processing and machine learning, as well as
a good experience of programming in Matlab and C/C++.
English is mandatory, French is a plus, but not required.

Candidates are invited to submit a resume, transcripts of grades for at least the last two year,
3 references, and motivation for the position.
Applications should be sent to the Eurecom secretariat, secretariat@eurecom.fr, with the subject
MM_BM_PhD_REEDIT_Sept2014

EURECOM

EURECOM is a leading teaching and research institution in the fields of information and communication
technologies (ICT). EURECOM is organized in a consortium form combining 7 European universities
and 9 international industrial partners, with the Institut Mines-Telecom as a founding partner.
Our 3 fundamental missions are:
- Research: focused on Networking and Security, Multimedia Communications and Mobile Communications.
- High level education: with graduate and postgraduate courses in communication systems, plus
three Master of Sciences programs entirely dedicated to foreign students.
- Doctoral program: in cooperation with several doctoral schools, supported by our research collaborations
with various partners, both industrial and academic, and funded by various sources, including national
and european programs.

Research Associate/Assistant Post at the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University

We have a position at our lab in a project which will apply our work on Linked Data/Semantic Web and Web APis in the domains of eLearning and the Future Internet.

Duration of Post: until end of May 2016.
Salary Scale: 28,695 - 37,394 (British Pounds)

Deadline for applications is: October 23rd

More details and application forms can be found at: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/  [Post 10673]

Post Job Summary

________________________________________________________________________________

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have recently come to the fore through high profile providers such as Udacity, Coursera, edX and the OU's own FutureLearn. According to some commentators this new initiative will radically change the higher education landscape through the provision of high quality freely available educational materials. The FORGE project is applying technologies related to rich interactive eBooks, social networking learning platforms and Linked Data to turn large scale Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities into a learning resource. See http://ict-forge.eu/

The weSPOT project aims at propagating a scientific inquiry approach for science learning and teaching in combination with current curricula and teaching practices. It lowers the threshold for linking everyday life with science teaching in schools through technology. weSPOT supports the meaningful contextualization of scientific concepts by relating them to personal curiosity, experiences, and reasoning founded on a theoretically sound and technology supported personal inquiry approach. See http://wespot.net/
____________________________________________________________________________________

Best

John

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Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

phone: 0044 1908 653800, fax: 0044 1908 653169

email: john.domingue@open.ac.uk web: kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/

President, STI International

Amerlingstrasse 19/35, Austria - 1060 Vienna

phone: 0043 1 23 64 002 - 16, fax: 0043 1 23 64 002-99
email: john.domingue@sti2.org  web: www.sti2.org 

-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

AppsFluxus'15 - Cognizance IIT Roorkee Sponsored Android Apps Development Workshop & Championship

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greeting from AppsFluxus'15 IIT-Roorkee !!! 

We "Team of AppsFluxus-2015" on behalf of Cognizance’15 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee & Finland Labs as the host of this National Android Apps Championship would like to entreat you to be a part of India's biggest android apps challenge i.e. AppsFluxus’15. Click here to know about our official Zonal Center.

AppsFluxus'15 is National Android Apps Championship and a workshops series jointly being organized by Association with Cognizance’15 IIT (Roorkee) & Finland labs.  All the preliminary rounds will be held at only selected Engineering & Polytechnic institutes across INDIA in present academic year and the grand finale will be on March at IIT-Roorkee under the banner of National Android Apps Championship.  

  

   AppsFluxus-2015 Event Details

·         Stage 1st (2-days Android app Workshop will be be held at zonal centers)

·         Stage 2nd (Prelims round of AppFluxus'15 will be just after the completion of workshop)

·         Stage 3rd (Final round of all zonal center winners to be held on 27-29 March at IIT-Roorkee campus)   

AppsFluxus’15 proposed National Level Skills Development workshops

·         Android Apps Development workshop

·          Big data Hadoop workshop

·         Cloud Computing Development

·          Networking CISCO Security

·          Web Development

  

Requirement for official Zonal Center 

·         Seminar hall /Computer lab & open ground to conduct hands-on-session for all participants.

·         Projector/screen along with to cordless mikes for teaching & presentation.

·         This zonal center can only be arranged for a minimum of 60 students

How to enlist for official Zonal Center  

Make the confirmation letter on college letter head & send a scan copy of letter by mail. First-come-first-served policy will be followed for selection of Zonal Centers.