TENURE TRACK OR TENURED POSITION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, ACADEMIA SINICA (TAIWAN)

The Institute of Information Science (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw), Academia Sinica (http://www.sinica.edu.tw), Taiwan, R.O.C. is recruiting junior and senior research fellows (equivalent to the rank from assistant professors, associate professors, to full professors) on the areas of natural language processing (NLP), in particular, Chinese language processing. All candidates for the position should have a Ph.D. degree in computer science with specialties in NLP, machine learning or semantic processing and with a good research background as well as publication record.

Academia Sinica is the highest national academic research institution in Taiwan. Led by Dr. Chi-Huey Wong, Academia Sinica conducts research on a broad spectrum of subjects in science and humanities. The Institute of Information Science (IIS) is committed to high quality basic research in computer and information science and engineering. We have a strong track record of Chinese NLP, and are considered by many to be a major base for research on traditional Chinese. In addition to research funding supported by Academia Sinica, external funding through government agencies and industry-sponsored institutions is also available.

Full-time research fellows in the Institute have no teaching obligations, and are free to pursue their own research directions. The areas of our current research include Algorithms and Computation Theory, Parallel Computing, Language and Knowledge Processing, Computer Vision and Multimedia Technologies, Bioinformatics, Ubiquitous Computing, Operating Systems and Networking, and other Internet related research. We will also launch a major collaborative research project on Web intelligence and social network.

Salary is based on individual qualifications. Additional salary support from the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship is available for applicants with exceptional qualifications. Senior candidates must demonstrate strong leadership, and have an international reputation evidenced by publications, patents, industrial practical experience, or other academic and scholarly achievements.

Application instruction is available at http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/page/recruitment/ResearchFellows.html.

For additional information, please contact Deputy Director of the Institute, Dr. Hsin-Min Wang (whm@iis.sinica.edu.tw).