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
