Postdoc Scholarship in Electronics and Information Systems in Belgium at Ghent University

Ghent University is offering a Postdoc Scholarship in Electronics and Information Systems for students all over the world. Data science has already had an important effect on science, economy, and society, and its impact continues to grow as high-throughput technologies are being developed, business models adapt, and new opportunities for exploiting data for societal purposes are being developed.

About the Program:-

• Today, the uptake of data science in practice is hindered mostly by a growing skills gap. Indeed, the application of data science techniques still requires sophisticated and rapidly evolving technical skills, and the demand for such skills grows faster than the suitably trained workforce. 
• This postdoctoral position is advertised in the context of a research project aiming to address this skills gap by developing novel principles for automating data science tasks that today seem too open-ended, too domain-dependent, or involve data that is too complex, to allow doing so.
• Besides theoretical and algorithmic innovations, you will have the opportunity to create real impact in a range of applications, in the job market and human resources management through an ongoing collaboration with the Flemish regional job agency, as well as in other areas such as bioinformatics and computational social sciences (e.g. social media analysis), depending on your experience and interests.

• Ghent University offers you a postdoc scholarship for a term of 3 years.
• All Ghent University staff members enjoy a number of benefits, such as a wide range of training and education opportunities, 35 days of holiday leave (on an annual basis for a full-time job), a bicycle allowance and eco vouchers.

• You hold a thesis-based doctorate in Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related area.
• You have a research interest in methods and technologies that help to ensure that AI complies with ethical and legal standards (fairness, privacy, transparency, robustness).
• You have a strong publication record on the above-mentioned topics.
• You have a strong knowledge of state-of-the-art AI and machine learning technology stacks.
• You not only have an interest in conceptual/theoretical innovations, but also in making a genuine difference in real-life applications when the opportunity arises (particularly, though not necessarily or exclusively, in human resources management and the job market, and/or in technologies for ensuring or enforcing ethical requirements in AI), and you are willing to spend the time and effort required to create that impact.
• You are a strong team-player and able to bring the best out in others.
• You are self-motivated and able to work independently.
• You have a strong command of the English language, both in speaking and in writing.

Tasks:-

• Independent research as part of the AIDA-IDLab research group, including algorithm development, running experiments, data management, interactions with research collaborators, etc.
• Contributing to the supervision of PhD students in the AIDA-IDLab research group.
• Taking the lead in writing, finalizing, submitting, and revising, publications of which you are a co-author.
• Generally contributing to a positive, enjoyable, and productive working environment in the AIDA-IDLab research group.
• A limited contribution to the teaching duties of the AIDA-IDLab research group (around 10% of your time).
• A limited amount of your time will be spent on project management such as project reporting, setting up and organizing project meetings with internal and external partners, writing data management plans and ethics assessment as and when required, etc. (around 10% of your time).

About Ghent University:-

Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium and is a top 100 university and one of the major universities in Belgium. It has 11 faculties all of which offer more than 200 courses and conduct in-depth research within a wide range of scientific domains. Ghent University Global Campus is also the first European university in Songdo, South Korea.

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