Full Professor in Machine Learning

Overview

Saarland University is a campus-based university with a strong international focus and an impressive research-oriented profile. Numerous research institutes on campus and the systematic promotion of collaborative projects make Saarland University an ideal environment for innovation and technology transfer. Internationally renowned for its excellence, computer science is one of the core research areas of the university. With its 800 researchers and more than 2,000 students from 81 countries, the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) belongs to one of the leading locations for computer science in Germany and in Europe. All areas of computer science are covered at five globally renowned research institutes and three collaborating university departments that offer a total of 24 academic programmes. To further strengthen this excellence in research and teaching, the Department for Computer Science seeks to hire

Full Professor (W3) in Machine Learning

(m/f/x; Reference: W2459)

We are looking… for a highly motivated researcher in the field of Machine Learning (ML) for a W3 professorship (equivalent to full professor level). We invite applications in all modern areas of ML, including but not limited to theoretical and applied deep learning, reinforcement learning, causal ML, trustworthy and robust ML, etc. Applicants will be assessed on the basis of their prospects for growth in scientific excellence in the areas of ML, as well as their past scientific contributions and the novelty, creativity and uniqueness of their research vision.

What we can offer you:

The position offers excellent working conditions in a lively scientific community, embedded in the vibrant and international research environment of the Saarland Informatics Campus: Saarland University has leading departments in computer science and computational linguistics, with more than 350 PhD students working on cutting-edge research topics and more than 60% of our Master’s students coming from abroad (see https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/ for additional information). We collaborate closely with a number of internationally renowned state-of-the-art research institutes in informatics: the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Center for Bioinformatics, and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. ML is already a strong research topic in Saarbrücken, with several internationally renowned research groups at the Max Planck Institutes for Informatics and for Software Systems, at CISPA, and at the Department of Computer Science itself, as well as a strong application- and transfer-oriented research focus at the DFKI. This offers manifold opportunities for collaborative research, along with internationally renowned research groups in related fields such as formal methods, algorithms, visual computing, bioinformatics, computational linguistics, etc. With the present opening, and with the upcoming opening for a tenure track professorship in ML, the department seeks to strengthen its ML focus as part of the active and growing ML landscape in Saarbrücken. Successful applicants will be considered for affiliation with MPI for Informatics or MPI for Software Systems

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Saarland University

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Level of experience (years):

Senior (5+ years of experience)

Tagged as: Academia, Computational Linguistics, Germany, Machine Learning, NLP