Associate Professor

Description:

University College London, Department of Computer Science is seeking a Lecturer/Associate Professor to join the Natural Language Processing Group. Successful candidates are expected to contribute to the teaching and research activities at the department. Expected duties and responsibilities include conducting research in the broader field of natural language processing, securing funding and engagement in the management of research projects, and dissemination of research through publications at top conferences/journals, talks and external engagements.

About you

Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent qualification) or have held a previous postdoctoral position in natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, or a strongly related field. Candidates are expected to have strong publication record in top conferences such as ACL, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, SIGIR. Experience in applying for research funding is not necessary, but highly desired. We also welcome applications from candidates with research experience from industry.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.