Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Université Côte d'Azur
- Department
- 3IA Interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligence Artificial
- Research Field
- Computer science
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Country
- France
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Hours Per Week
- 35
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- Not funded by an EU programme
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
Junior Fellows in Artificial Intelligence
EFELIA Côte d’Azur
Université Côte d’Azur and EFELIA Côte d’Azur
Université Côte d'Azur is an experimental University since January 1, 2020 and replaces both the University Nice Sophia Antipolis created in 1965 and the Community of Universities and Institutions Université Côte d'Azur created in 2015. Université Côte d'Azur now brings together 17 major academic players around the historic university core to build one of the 10 major French universities that are intensive in research.
Winner of the Idex call for projects in 2016 (UCAJEDI - Joint Excellent and Dynamic Initiative) which places it among the top 10 French universities for intensive research, it aims to build a 21st century university whose excellence will allow increase national and international visibility and attractiveness and ultimately be among the best universities in the world.
Université Côte d´Azur carries the Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence 3IA Côte d´Azur, in collaboration with INRIA, CNRS, INSERM, Eurecom and Skema Business School. 3IA Côte d'Azur is one of the four “Interdisciplinary Institutes of Artificial Intelligence” created in France in 2019. Its ambition is to create an innovative ecosystem, influential at local, national and international levels, and a focal point of excellence for research, education and the world of AI. Its main objective is to make AI expertise, algorithms, and tools available to academics, businesses, and the community, in order to have a significant impact in terms of economic value but also in public everyday life.
The positions
The Institute 3IA Côte d’Azur is currently inviting applications for several positions as “Junior Fellow in Artificial Intelligence”. The persons selected for these positions will have to share their time between a teaching duty of 128 hours ETD (equivalent exercise session) per year and a research mission in AI within one of the laboratories of Université Côte d´Azur, INRIA, CNRS, INSERM, Eurecom or Skema Business School.
The appointments will start in September 2022. The positions are for an initial two-year term, renewable once. Salary is competitive according to qualifications (up to 4000€/month gross). Notice that the teaching duties (128 hours ETD per year) are reduced compared to French university standards. At the appointment, knowledge of French is not required but it is expected that the appointee will acquire a workable knowledge of French in a reasonable time. The Institute offers resources to learn French.
Requirements
Candidate Profile:
Candidates should have:
• A PhD with a strong component in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or Statistical Learning (or a planned Ph.D. defense in 2022),
• Outstanding research in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistical Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision ,
• Publications in leading international journals (JMLR, PAMI, Statistics & Computing, IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, …) or conferences in AI and its major fields of advancement (Neurips, ICML, AISTATS, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACM Multimedia, IEEE IROS, …)ent.
• Demonstrated ability to teach courses in Computer Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, and to supervise projects/students in Data Science & AI. The successful candidate will teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and for engineers from companies.
• A research project aligned with one of the research axes of the Institute. We encourage candidates to prepare their research project with one of the chair holders of the Institute (see https://3ia.univ-cotedazur.eu/research) or the head of one of the laboratories of Université Côte d´Azur, INRIA, CNRS, INSERM, Eurecom or Skema Business School.
• A short teaching statement where the candidate exposes their vision of what teaching AI outside the fields of computer science and mathematics should encompass, and possible directions to design corresponding teaching materials.
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Level
- Basic
Additional Information
Applications:
Applications (in French or in English) should be submitted by email to 3ia@univ-cotedazur.fr, with reference 3IA/2022/EfeliaFellows as subject, not later than Decembre 1st 2022 in order to be fully considered. The recruitment process will be done on the fly and will then continue until all the positions are filled.
Documents to include:
• Curriculum vitae with a detailed list of publications
• A statement of research and teaching interests (2-4 pages),
• A research project detailing the link with the research axes of the Institute,
• Names and email addresses of three or more individuals willing to provide letters of reference.
Contact persons:
• Charles Bouveyron, Director of the Institute: charles.bouveyron@univ-cotedazur.fr
• Lucile Sassatelli, Scientific Director: lucile.sassatelli@univ-cotedazur.fr
• Vincent Vandewalle, Deputy Scientific Director: vincent.vandewalle@univ-cotedazur.fr
• Aurélie Delort, coordinator of Education program: aurelie.delort@univ-cotedazur.fr
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 2
- Company/Institute
- Université Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- City
- Nice - Sophia Antipolis
- Street
- Valrose
- Geofield
Where to apply
- 3ia@univ-cotedazur.fr
Contact
- City
- Nice - Sophia Antipolis
- Website
- Street
- Valrose