Academic

RCUK Academic Fellowships in Exabyte Informatics

The University of Bristol is offering three RCUK Academic Fellowships in the area of Exabyte Informatics, one available for 2006 and the other two to begin in 2007. The main responsibility of the Research Fellow is to advance the state of the art in Exabyte Informatics by carrying out world-class research on key research topics.

Exabyte Informatics is concerned with methods and techniques for exploiting the vast amounts of computer-readable data that are now available and routinely being produced in all areas of human activitiy including science, commerce, and the home environment. The challenges posed by the sheer volume of data, as well as the opportunities arising from ever-increasing computing power and connectivity of devices, require highly innovative ways of storing, managing, retrieving and mining data. The Computer Science department has initiated and is leading this University-wide research theme.

The aim of an RCUK Academic Fellowship is to provide a young researcher with a more attractive and stable path into academia, by requiring the host organisation to guarantee the Fellow a permanent academic position following the end of the 5 year award, subject to successful completion of a probationary period. We seek to appoint outstanding Research Fellows to work with leading researchers from the participating departments. This reinforces the inter-disciplinary nature of the research and provides the Fellow with an excellent environment to kick-start his or her academic career. The ideal candidate has a thorough background in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining, pattern recognition, statistics, algorithms, and discrete mathematics, and has research experience in at least two of these areas.

The closing date for applications is 9am, 4 August 2006. For further details including an on-line application form, see the advert on jobs.ac.uk. Further information can also be obtained from Professor Peter Flach. When applying, please include a Research Statement outlining how your past research and future research plans fit in with the Exabyte Informatics research theme.

Web links:
http://exabyte.bristol.ac.uk
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/acfellow/
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/QC361.html
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/