Dublin City University is seeking to make a strategic appointment to support existing academic and research leadership in the area of Multimodal Information Systems within the DCU School of Computing, home of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a new post of Full Professor of Computing (Multimodal Information Systems) at DCU under the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative (SALI) Call 2019, in line with the requirements set out in the Higher Education Authority (HEA) Call document:

https://hea.ie/assets/uploads/2019/06/FINAL-Call-document-2019-06-21.pdf

The full job job description is available at:

https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/inline-files/nr029a-full-professor-of-computing-multimodal-information-processing-ad_final.pdf

The Appointee will have the benefit of interaction and collaboration with the wider ADAPT research teams -- a significant body of researchers, including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, Research Fellows and ADAPT staff -- working on aspects of Language Technology, Machine Translation, Personalisation, Multimodal Processing, VR/AR and Privacy and Ethics across the eight ADAPT partner universities.  This is an exciting time for the ADAPT Centre as it transitions from the first phase of SFI funding to the phase II extension from 2021-26. Accordingly, the successful candidate has the perfect opportunity to shape their future research goals by contributing to the envisaged programme of work during the next cycle of ADAPT.

For further information, please contact Prof. Brian Corcoran, Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Computing (brian.corcoran@dcu.ie) at DCU, or Prof. Andy Way, Deputy Director of the ADAPT Centre at DCU (andy.way@adaptcentre.ie), who will be delighted to engage with you further about this role.

The application form is available at:

https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/inline-files/dcu_application_sali-3.doc

The closing date for applications is Dec 2nd, 2020.