UMONS – Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Artificial Intelligence
Moniteur Belge, 2020-04-06
http://informatique.umons.ac.be/job_offers

The University of Mons announces the opening of a full-time tenure-track faculty positon in artificial intelligence at the assistant professor level. The positon is opened jointly in the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering, with a startng date of September 1, 2020. In a frst stage, the person will be appointed for a period of three years, which can be extended with two extra years. The definitive appointment will be decided during or at the end of this period. The appointed person will take the lead of a new research group in the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science.

Qualifed candidates must have a doctorate in disciplines related to computer science or computer engineering, and should have an outstanding research record in the feld of artfcial intelligence, with a specialisaton in machine learning. The selected person will develop research and teaching actvites in this domain, will collaborate with existng research groups in the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science, and will be actve in fundraising for industrial, governmental, and european projects.

The teaching dutes include the following:

• teaching actvites in “Selected topic in artfcial intelligence” (18 hours of lectures + 18 hours of practcal work) in the Master in Computer Science and the Master in Computer Engineering and Management ;

• teaching actvites in “Advanced topics in artfcial intelligence” (12 hours of lectures + 12 hours of practcal
work) in the Master in Computer Science and the Master in Computer Engineering and Management;

• a partcipaton in teaching actvites in “Seminars of artfcial intelligence” and “Challenges in artfcial intelligence” in the Master in Computer Science, the Master in Computer Engineering and Management, and the Master in Electrical Engineering.

Some of these teaching actvites can be followed by students in other disciplines. Additonal teaching dutes will be assigned at the levels of Bachelor and Master, in Computer Science, in Computer Engineering and Management, and in Electrical Engineering, so that the appointed person will eventually have the same teaching load as other faculty members in the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science. The appointed person will supervise projects, master theses, and doctoral theses in both facultes. The appointed person will also be actve in teaching actvites at the campus of the University of Mons in the city of Charleroi. The appointed person should be capable to teach in French and in English. An appointed person who is not francophone, should be capable of teaching in the French language within a period of at most two years, startng at September 1, 2020.

Candidate leters, writen in the French language, with a summary of ttles, should be sent, by registered leter with request for acknowledgement of receipt, to:

Monsieur le Recteur de l’Université de Mons, Place du Parc, 20,
B-7000-Mons, Belgique,

and by e-mail to secretariat.ca@umons.ac.be, within 30 days of the ofcial publicaton of this positon in the “Moniteur belge” (that is, no later than May 5, 2020).

Candidate applicatons should include the following documents: a motvaton leter, curriculum vitae, a list of publicatons (which should be electronically accessible), a plan for research in artfcial intelligence with specialisaton in machine learning (maximum fve pages), a statement outlining the candidate’s view on teaching (maximum fve pages), transcripts of diplomas, a copy of the fve most important publicatons, the names and addresses of three internatonal experts that can serve as references.

All additonal informaton can be obtained from Prof. Christan Michaux, Dean of the Faculty of Science (christian.michaux@umons.ac.be), and from Prof. Christne Renote, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (christine.renotte@umons.ac.be).

Selected candidates will be invited for an interview including the teaching of a lesson and a discussion on teaching and research plans.