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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Apologies for cross postings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">***Postdoctoral Research Fellow Post in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3-year post leading to permanent academic (Lecturer) position<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">£32,548 - £38,832 per annum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Institute for Analytics and Data Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">University of Essex, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The University of Essex (UK) is currently advertising a Postdoctoral Research Fellow post in the Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) to support the Institute’s work
in analytics, data science and big data. The post is for an initial 3-year period within IADS during which the post-holder will be on probation. On successful completion of the Fellowship and the probation period, the post-holder will be offered a permanent
appointment as a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The duties of the Postdoctoral Research Fellow include undertaking high quality independent and collaborative research that meets REF standards, applying for grants, contributing
to public engagement and impact, developing interdisciplinary collaborations within IADS, supporting the research culture of the Institute, supervising students, and supporting IADS administratively. The Fellow will also undertake a limited amount of teaching
to enable them to meet the requirements of probation, and to provide a good foundation in higher education practice for the Fellow's ongoing career. The person appointed will work closely with the Director of the Institute and UNESCO Chair in Analytics and
Data Science, Prof Maria Fasli and Assistant Director Dr Spyros Samothrakis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science or related area and have excellent knowledge of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning or advanced text
analytics. Particular research areas of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- machine learning;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- reinforcement learning, neural networks, deep learning;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- data mining;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- predictive analytics;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- natural language processing and advanced text analytics;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- semantic information extraction and the Semantic Web;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- social media analysis;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- handling of data in motion (multi-stream processing and reasoning, complex event processing and reasoning);
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- decision support tools and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information and to make an application, please see here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3d333171EkCU%1BUSESSION=DCC131C22B8346FFB7FC55A2DC3B41FD&WVID=9918109NEm&LANG=USA">https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3d333171EkCU%1BUSESSION=DCC131C22B8346FFB7FC55A2DC3B41FD&WVID=9918109NEm&LANG=USA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The job specification can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www1.essex.ac.uk/hr-jobpacks/science_health-csee/REQ00948_Jobpack_Published.pdf">https://www1.essex.ac.uk/hr-jobpacks/science_health-csee/REQ00948_Jobpack_Published.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Informal enquiries can be directed to Prof Maria Fasli (mfasli@essex.ac.uk).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Maria Fasli PhD, NTF, FHEA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director, Institute for Analytics and Data Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">University of Essex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">T +44 (0)1206 872327<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">E mfasli@essex.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Follow us on Twitter @EssexIADS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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