Open Rank Professorship

The International Society for Bayesian Analysis; Lugano; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano invites applications for a Professor (open rank) in Data Science within the Faculty of Informatics. The position aims to build a new Data Science initiative alongside two strong ML groups led by Schmidhuber and Bronstein.

Starting date is February 1, 2018 with priority for applications received by September 1, 2017. Antonietta Mira is the contact for further information.

Job description

The Faculty of Informatics is seeking to fill a position as Professor (open rank) in Data Science. Applications received by September 1, 2017 will be given priority. Targeted starting date for the position is February 1, 2018. More information can be found here
https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/press/press-call-inf-professor-open-rank-data-science.pdf

We have two very strong Machine Learning groups at USI, one lead by
Jurgen Schmidhuber
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/
and one lead by Michel Brosntein
http://www.inf.usi.ch/bronstein/

Together with these colleagues we are building a new Data Science initiative.

Salary is highly competitive.
Each professor is entitled to two PhD students supported by the University.
The Swiss National Science Foundation is very rich in terms of competitive research founding.
USI encourages supports conference participation (with cost reimbursement).

For further information feel free to email Antonietta Mira at [e-mail]