[agents] Lectureship / Senior Lectureship at Imperial College London, UK

[Alessio Lomuscio]

Dear All

Please see the ad below. Note that we have other positions available in 
Robotics, Machine Learning, and Cyber-physical Systems. Please see
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/job-vacancies/
for more details.

Best

-Alessio

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Alessio Lomuscio, PhD, FEurAI
Director of Strategy and Planning
Department of Computing         http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~alessio
Imperial College London         Phone: +44 (20) 7594 8414
Exhibition Road,
London, SW7 2AZ, UK


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http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BFM320/lectureship-assistant-professor-senior-lectureship-associate-professor-in-computer-science-artificial-intelligence/


Lectureship (Assistant Professor) / Senior Lectureship (Associate
Professor) in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Applications are invited for full-time, faculty members at the
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (comparable to tenure-track
Assistant/Associate Professorships) who can contribute to research and
teaching, in particular in Artificial Intelligence (including
autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, knowledge representation and
reasoning, logic-based AI, planning and natural language processing).

Notwithstanding the above focus, exceptional candidates from any area
of Computer Science are also encouraged to apply.

Imperial College London is a world-leading university whose reputation
for excellence in teaching and research attracts students and staff of
the highest international quality. The three Faculties, Engineering,
Natural Sciences and Medicine, together with the Business School
explore the interface between science, medicine, engineering and
management.

The Department of Computing is one of the largest Computing
departments in the UK, and is at the forefront of academic research
and teaching in Computer Science. Its research has been ranked in the
top three in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework undertaken by
the Higher Education funding Council for England in 2014. The Sunday
Times University Guide ranks the Department’s research and teaching as
second in Computer Science. For further information about the
Department’s research and teaching, visit
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/.

We offer an attractive salary package (including pension schemes to
which the employer makes significant contributions) as well as
generous terms and conditions of service. In addition, we provide
numerous benefits to our staff and students, including subsidised
childcare on campus, flexible and family-friendly working policies and
opportunities for further professional development and sabbaticals.

You will have a PhD (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a relevant
field. You should be able to demonstrate an ability to establish
outstanding independent research, to contribute to undergraduate and
postgraduate teaching programmes in the Department and to supervise
PhD students.

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974,
a satisfactory (standard/enhanced/enhanced for regulated activity)
Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required for the
successful candidate. Further information about the DBS disclosure
process can be found at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs/.

For further details on this opportunity visit our website at the
following link. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/ and search using
vacancy reference number ENG00005.

In addition to completing the online application, candidates should attach:

* A full CV including a publication list;
* A list of the four most significant publications. For each of the
  four publications, please include a short statement (100 words
  maximum) highlighting the key contributions made by the applicant in
  that work;
* A research statement that describes your previous research
     contributions and future research plans (no more than two pages);
* A teaching statement that describes your previous teaching
  experience and potential contributions to teaching in the Department
  (no more than two pages).

For queries regarding the application process, applicants should
contact Margaret Hall: margaret.hall at imperial.ac.uk

Closing date: 18th December 2017 (Midnight GMT)

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on
Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion
decisions, we are determined to evaluate applicants on the quality of
their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For
more information, see
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/