[agents] Open Associate Professor Position in Japan

[Makoto Yokoo]

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Call for applications for an associate professor position
Department of Informatics,
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University, Japan
https://portal.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
***** Application deadline: March 31, 2021  *****
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Associate Professor Position Announcement
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University

1. Position: Associate Professor 

2. Affiliation: Department of Informatics,
   Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
   Kyushu University
   https://portal.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/

3. Place of work: Kyushu University Ito Campus,744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

4. Specialties: Multiagent systems, game theory, market design,
   artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimization,
   and other related topics in informatics.

5. Key Responsibilities: Research and education for the topics
   presented in 4. Education for the graduate students in the Graduate
   School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, and for the
   undergraduate students in the School of Engineering, Department of
   Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

6. Position Type: Regular full-time (not fixed-term contract),
   Trial employment period (Three months)

7. Working hours, break time and overtime work: 7 hours and 45 minutes
   per day based on discretionary labor system for professional work

8. Holiday: Saturday, Sunday, public holidays and from December 29 to January 3.

9. Salary: Annual salary system (started from April 1, 2020)
   will be applied. Base annual salary is determined based on professional
   experience, job responsibilities and other relevant factors along with
   the University’s related regulations.

10. Insurances: Employment insurance, Industrial injury insurance,
    Health insurance, and Employee pension

11. Qualifications: The candidate should
(i) have a PhD or equivalent. 
(ⅱ) be enthusiastic in teaching and research.
(ⅲ) able to teach, supervise, and give lectures in English.

12. Start date: As soon as possible after decision

13. Application Documents:
(i) Curriculum vitae including the candidate’s profile photo,
    education after high school, work experience, academic society
    memberships, social activities, awards, and other particularly notable
    entries.
(ii) A list of publications. Please categorize them based on the type
    of the publications such as peer-reviewed, proceedings of
    international conferences, tutorial papers, books, invited talks,
    patents, etc. Please also include all the coauthors.
(iii) Copies of 5 selected papers of the candidate.
(iv) A summary of the candidate’s current/past research and a research vision statement. 
(v) Teaching Statement
(vi) The candidate who belongs to a university must include a track
   record of securing research funding. Please include the name of the
   funding, the title of the project, the information if you are the
   principal investigator or co-investigator, your affiliation, and the
   amount of the funding. The candidate who belongs to an industry must
   include the details of the research projects involved.
(vii) The names, affiliations and contact details of two referees.

14. Application Deadline: Received by March 31, 2021

15. Application submission:
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please put the set of
documents to be submitted (i. e. of 13(i)-(vii)) in a folder and
compress it with a password (preferably in ZIP file) and send by
e-mail to the contact e-mail address presented in 16. Please make the
subject of the email "Application for Associate Professor". If the
file size of the compressed file exceeds 5MB, please email the URL of
a location where the complete set of documents could be downloaded
safely. Also, please email us the password for decompressing the
compressed file separately. After receiving the application, the
applicant will be notified with a confirmation of receipt. If you do
not receive a confirmation of receipt within 24 hours, please contact
the following reference. The applications received after the deadline
will not be considered for further screening.

16. Enquiries and contact:
Makoto Yokoo (tel: +81-92-802-3585,
e-mail:recruit at inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp) Distinguished Professor,
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical
Engineering, Kyushu University

17. Note:
(i) Selection will be based on a comprehensive review of applications
  and interviews of candidates. Selected applicants may be asked to have
  an on-campus or online interview. The University does not cover travel
  costs or other expenses relating to the interview attendance.
(ii) In line with the Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society
  (Act No. 78 of 1999), Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer:
   http://danjyo.kyushu-u.ac.jp
(iii) Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer and follows
   the principle of Basic Act for Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 84
   of 1970), Act on Employment Promotion etc. of Persons with
   Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 1960, revised in 2013) and Act on the
   Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Act
   No. 65 of 2013).
(iv) The system of employment of faculty members with accompanying
     spouse has been implemented at Kyushu University from July 2017.
(v) Kyushu University prohibits the smoking in the site to avoid
    exposure of environmental tobacco smoke.
(vi) Personal information included in the submitted documents will not
   be used for purposes other than screening.