Assistant/Associate Professor Positions in the Electronic Systems group at TU Eindhoven

The Electronic Systems group at TU Eindhoven has two positions available for qualified candidates with a research profile in nano-electronic circuit design/VLSI and efficient machine learning/deep learning systems.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Nano-Electronic Digital Circuits and Systems (V36.3406)

Position: Assistant Professor
Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronic Systems group
Department(s): Department of Electrical Engineering
FTE: 1,0
Date off: 07/10/2018
Reference number: V36.3406

Job description

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a world-leading research university specializing in engineering science & technology. The Department of Electrical Engineering is responsible for research and education in Electrical Engineering. The discipline covers technologies end electrical phenomena involved in computer engineering, information processing, energy transfer, and telecommunication. The department strives for societal relevance through an emphasis on the fields of smart sustainable systems, the connected world, and care and cure. The TU/e is the world's best-performing research university in terms of research cooperation with industry (#1 since 2009).

Electronic Systems group at the TU/e
The Electronic Systems (ES) group consists of seven full professors, ten assistant professors, several postdocs, about 50 PDEng and PhD candidates, and support staff. The ES group is world-renowned for its design automation and embedded systems research. It is our ambition to provide a scientific basis for design trajectories of electronic systems, ranging from digital circuits to cyber-physical systems. ES research is organized in three subprograms that cover the engineering, system and circuit perspectives: Model-driven engineering, smart electronic systems, and digital nano-electronics. The group is strongly involved in the electrical engineering bachelor and master programs of the TU/e, as well as in the automotive bachelor program and the embedded systems master program. The group has excellent infrastructure that includes individual computers, computer servers, state-of-the-art FPGA and GPU farms, sensor- and ad-hoc networking equipment, a cyber-physical systems lab, an electronics lab, and a comprehensive range of electronic-design software. ES has strong collaborations with industry, research institutes and other universities. Thirteen of its staff members have a second affiliation besides there TU/e-ES affiliation. The ES group has been very successful in attracting funding for its research through national and international projects and collaborations (EU programs: H2020, ITEA, CATRENE, ECSEL, Artemis, Marie Curie; national programs: NWO, TTW, RVO, contract research), for a total budget of around 2M euro per year. The ES group is a multi-cultural team, with staff members of eight different nationalities and students from all over the world.

Nano-Electronic Digital Circuits and Systems
Digital circuits and systems play a crucial role in realizing a smart and sustainable society. Nano-scale integration of electronics leads to many challenges and opportunities in terms of performance, reliability, power dissipation and cost of digital circuits and systems. Achieving the right tradeoffs between these aspects for various applications in a controlled way is a fundamental challenge. You are expected to conduct high-quality academic research in the area of digital nano-electronics, resulting in publications in top conferences and scholarly journals. We expect this position to close the gap between embedded computer architectures and VLSI integration, with Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things as the main application domains. You will teach courses at the bachelor and/or master levels (both in English), and you will be involved in supervising Bachelor, master, PDEng, and PhD candidates. You are expected to acquire external research funding from (inter-)national funding bodies or industry. In the ES group we value cooperation so we expect colleagues to support and coach each other. Further we expect you to participate in international academic networks and organizations.</p

Job requirements

• We are looking for excellent candidates that add value to the ES group and match the following profile:
• A PhD in electrical engineering or any other relevant program from a leading university, specializing in digital electronics.
• Hands-on experience in circuit design and the realization of working circuits.

Postdoc and/or industrial experience.

• A clear research profile demonstrated by publications in leading conferences and journals.
• A team player willing to work in multidisciplinary multicultural teams.
• Teaching experience and the ambition to contribute to teaching in bachelor and master programs.
• Excellent English language skills (writing, presenting, teaching).
• Experience in guidance of (BSc, MSc, PhD) students.
• Preferably, a track record in defining and attracting research projects and funding.

Conditions of employment

We offer a position in a research group with an excellent reputation. Assistant professors are appointed in a tenure track for five years with a perspective to reach a tenured position. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, including:

• A gross monthly salary of at least EU3.475, depending on your experience.
• Additionally, 8% holiday and 8.3% end-of-year annual supplements.
• A minimum of 41 holidays per year (excluding bank holidays, for a full-time employment of 40 hrs/week)
• Additional benefits, including excellent technical infrastructure, child care, holiday savings schemes, and sports facilities.
• Management development and teaching qualification programs designed for assistant professors.

Information and application

Information
If you are interested in working in an exciting, dynamic, high-tech environment, where you will contribute to creating the society of the future, then apply through the button on this page and upload an extended curriculum vitae including a complete publication list, a well-motivated application letter, a research statement, a teaching statement, and the three publications that you consider your most valuable work so far.

For more information on the position, please contact prof.dr.ir. Twan Basten, chair of the Electronic Systems group (a.a.basten@tue.nl, http://www.es.ele.tue.nl/~tbasten).

For more information on working at the TU/e and employment conditions, see https://www.tue.nl/universiteit/werken-bij-de-tue/ or contact Mr. Paul Hulsen, HR advisor P.H.W.Hulsen@tue.nl).

Two assistant/associate professor tenure positions in Artificial Intelligence (V32.3288)

Position: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
Department(s): Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
FTE: 1,0
Date off: 26/10/2018
Reference number: V32.3288

Job description

TU/e is a highly ranked university in both research and teaching. The basic and the application-inspired research are equally valued here. TU/e is often ranked exceptionally high based on scientific co-publications with industry and the impact of its scientific research.

TU/e has identified Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of the key multi-disciplinary research opportunities in the taskforce TU/e 2030. Various research groups at Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and other departments of TU/e have been active and visible within the area of AI and its applications. There is an ongoing initiative at both the university level and the faculty level to strengthen our AI research and AI education.

The department of Computer Science is looking for two Assistant /Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence who have an ambition to build their own research groups in AI.

Your profile:
We search for top candidates in all areas of AI, including but not limited to deep learning, symbolic AI, Ubiquitous AI, Explainable and responsible AI, AI with human in the loop as well as subareas targeting specific applications in healthcare, robotics, education or sciences.

The precise research focus will be left to you, and your personal research interests and preferences.

As a newly appointed faculty member, you will start in the Data mining group with support to grow your own AI group. Next to your research quality, your educational skills are very important since we expect you to develop and teach AI courses at all levels.

However, in the first years of employment, your teaching duties will be reduced to 30% leaving 70% of your time for research, developing collaboration with other research groups and industry, and building your own research group.
Job requirements

The candidate is expected to have the following qualifications:

• A PhD degree in AI, machine learning, or other relevant areas in computer science,
• Publications in top journals and conferences.
• Excellent communication, organization and leadership skills demonstrating the potential of building an own research group.
• Strong cooperation skills and ability to work in a team; successful candidates are expected to collaborate with colleagues in other fields of Computer Science, as well as with colleagues from other faculties working on AI applications.
• A successful candidate is expected to have a clear vision on education, and to consider teaching equally important as research. Excellent skills in developing and teaching academic courses (preferably in AI, machine learning, data mining) are essential.
• A successful candidate at the Associate Professor level is expected to have an international academic reputation in a well-defined or an emerging area of Artificial Intelligence.

Conditions of employment

We offer:

• a challenging job in a dynamic and ambitious university;
• a tenure track appointment for a period of five years;
• a start package including reduction of teaching load from 50% to 30%;
• a salary depending on your experience and according to Dutch CAO (a starting salary of assistant professor is EU3.475);
• a yearly holiday allowance of 8% of the yearly salary;
• a yearly end year allowance of 8.3% of the yearly salary;
• a broad, attractive package of fringe benefits (including an excellent technical infrastructure, child care, and excellent sports facilities).

Information and application

Information:
Further information with respect to the signature of the position is available from prof.dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy (m.pechenizkiy@tue.nl).
Further information concerning employment conditions can be obtained from Mrs. Arianne Boekema, HR Advisor M&CS, (pzwin@tue.nl).

Your application:
If you are interested in the position of tenure-track assistant/associate professor, and would like to apply, please send us your application by using the 'apply for this job'-button at the top of this page. Your application must contain the following documents (all in English):

• A letter of interest;
• A full CV including your publication list;
• A research statement;
• A teaching statement;
• Contact details of at least two references.

Please send us your application before October 26, 2018

Please keep in mind; you can upload only 5 documents up to 2 MB each.

Screening of applicants will start as soon as applications are received and will continue until the positions have been filled.