Assistant Professor - Computer Sciences
Assistant Professor - Computer Sciences
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Job Description
Role:Assistant Professor
Grade and Salary: Gradeper annum
FTE and working pattern: 1 FTE 35hrs per week Monday Friday
Holiday Entitlement: 33 days annual leaveplus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday)
About the Team
You will join the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at HeriotWatt University in Edinburgh Scotland. The department of Computer Science within the School is internationally renowned for its worldclass research across a number of areas including theoretical computer science robotics natural language processing programming languages AI data science and machine learning.
The department has an extensive portfolio of taught programmes with many programmes taught on three campuses Edinburgh Dubai and Malaysia with global course teams in charge of teaching courses. We also have teaching partnerships with Universities in China and Kazakhstan.
The School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences is committed to supporting family friendly work practices and parttime working options as part of our Athena Swan Silver award (see especially encourage women and members of underrepresented groups to apply for these positions. We welcome and will consider flexible working patterns e.g. parttime working and job share options. We are very proud of our inclusive and friendly community. We organise regular events for women in CS fora for staff and students with disabilities as well as formal and informal support groups at all levels. Our professorial staff is 46 female compared to the national average of 16.
Purpose of Role
We are looking for potentially more than one assistant professor for our Edinburgh campus. We are particularly interested in hiring people with expertise within one or more of the following areas: roboticsartificial intelligence generative AI machine learning natural language processing humancomputer and humanrobot interaction data integration databases knowledge representation parallel and distributed systems programming languages and theoretical computer science.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of School/Head of Discipline responsibilities include:
- Engaging in highquality research in your area of expertise.
- Writing and submitting grant proposals and securing research funding as a Principal Investigator and CoInvestigator. Be responsible for the management and of research projects involving academic and other (industrial public sector etc. collaborators including the School and the Universitys wider research programmes.
- Disseminating research findings in publications in toplevel conferences and journals within your field and maintaining or building an international research reputation through contributions to the international research community (e.g. by serving as reviewer referee expert witness conference chair programme committee editorship of a journal).
- Supervision and guidance of undergraduate postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers.
- Teaching undergraduate masters and doctoral level courses.
Essential & Desirable Criteria
Essential
- A PhD in computer science or closely related field
- Trackrecordofhighqualitypublications on topics that relate to the range listed above
- Track record of teaching computer science courses well and enthusiastically E4: Good interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Track record of teaching computer science courses well and enthusiastically
Desirable
- Track record in obtaining external funding
- Enthusiasmandambitiontocontributetoaworldclassacademiccommunity.
- The skills to supervise undergraduate and MSc projects
- Experience in a pastoral role towards undergraduates
How to Apply
Applications can be submitted up to midnight(UK time)on Sunday 4th May 2025.
Interested applicants must submit via the HeriotWatt online recruitment system: 1 a cover letter describing their interest and suitability for the post; 2 a full CV including a list of publications; and 3 a 2page summary where they discuss their plans and ambitions for both research and teaching.
Informal enquiries may be made to: Prof. Jurriaan Hage Head of Computer Science
We welcome and will consider flexible working patterns e.g. parttime working and job share options.
HeriotWattUniversity is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected trained promoted appraised and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all.
HeriotWattUniversity values diversity across our university community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society particularly from underrepresented groups. For more information please see our website also our awardwinning work in Disability Inclusive Science Careers our total rewards calculator: see the value of benefits provided by HeriotWatt University.
About HeriotWatt University
At HeriotWatt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.
Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with wellbeing and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.
Employment Type
Full-Time
