Birmingham Fellows:
The University of Birmingham is making a major investment to recruit post-doctoral fellows of the very highest calibre. We are conducting a global search to recruit up to 50 Birmingham Fellows in priority and interdisciplinary areas across the university. The Birmingham Fellows will be outstanding post-doctoral researchers who are on a trajectory to become the next generation of research and academic leaders. The Birmingham Fellowships have been designed to support the Fellows as they establish themselves as rounded and mature academics at the University of Birmingham.The Fellowships will be five-year appointments, giving the Fellows the time they need to engage in serious research and to establish themselves within the academic community at Birmingham, nationally and internationally. Fellows who meet their potential and perform according to the expectations agreed at the beginning of their fellowship term will be offered a permanent post at the end of the fellowship term.
Although research-focused, Fellows will be appointed to research and teaching contracts, reflecting our commitment to teaching as an integral part of an academic career. At the start of the Fellowship period, the emphasis will be on consolidating an already-outstanding research trajectory, but Fellows will be expected to engage in PhD supervision and to develop a growing teaching portfolio over their five-year term. Fellows will not be expected to engage in substantive academic management or administration during their Fellowship term.
The School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK
Computer Science at Birmingham dates back to the late 1950s with the School of Computer Science becoming one of the first academic departments in the UK to undertake research and teaching in this field. The School has around 40 academic staff, 25 research fellows, 80 PhD students and approximately 400 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Our research programmes are supported by a wide range of bodies, including UK and EU research councils, overseas governments and universities and UK and multi-national companies.The School is proud to provide and sustain a lively and purposeful research culture.
It is ranked in the top ten UK computer science departments by the Research Evaluation Exercise 2008, conducted by the UK government.
Within the School of Computer Science there are strong groups working on Nature-Inspired and Intelligent Computation, Intelligent Robotics, Computing Systems, Theoretical Computer Science, Software Engineering, Medical Imaging, and Human-Computer Interaction. There is considerable interaction between different areas, and several people work in two or more groups. The School has no divisive fragmentation into separately managed subgroups, and maintains a friendly and collaborative atmosphere with a highly consultative management style. There are normally three or four research seminars each week, with a good balance between visiting and internal speakers and between formality and informality. A significant proportion of the School's budget is used for research support, including provision for modern computing facilities, a school library to complement the main university library, funding or travel for conferences, regular visiting seminar speakers, and guest positions.
Birmingham Fellows at the School of Computer Science
Outstanding candidates in all fields of computer science are welcome to apply as long as they can demonstrate how their work will complement and enhance excellence at the school. In particular, we invite outstanding applicants in areas related to the school research strength:
Nature-Inspired and Intelligent Computation: The main interests of this group are natural computation, machine learning and data mining, medical image interpretation, theorem proving.
Intelligent Robotics: Interests include computer vision, recognition, task planning, reasoning under uncertainty, and cognitive architectures.
Computer Security: The research interests of this group include security protocols, access control systems, applied cryptography, software security.
Theoretical Computer Science: The focus of this group is on mathematical foundations of computer science such as domain theory, exact numerical computation, computational logic and logic of topology and toposes, as well as on the semantics and formal methods for programming languages.
Foundational Theory of Computation: programming languages and semantics (including concurrent systems); domain theory and applications of topology to computation (for example, exact real-number computation); topos theory (especially as applied to quantum physics and quantum computation).
Logic and Algebra: algebraic structures (such as loops and quasi-groups); computational algebra and theorem-proving; logic and model-checking (with applications to security); topological aspects of logic.
Algorithms: optimization and heuristic search (design of algorithms and their run-time analysis); theory of evolutionary computation; data analysis and data mining.
Software Engineering: Cloud software engineering, requirements, software architectures, model-driven engineering, automated software engineering and tools, security software engineering, search-based software engineering, and/or robotics software engineering.
Medical Imaging and Interpretation: focus on optical imaging for the detection of skin cancer, early signs of tinopathies, colon and breast cancer; optical tomographic imaging of the human brain and multi-modality imaging, and image coregistration.
Human-Computer Interaction: including mobile computing; interaction technologies; usability and design; research on natural language processing and understanding; document and text analysis.
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