| National ICT Australia (NICTA) is seeking an outstanding Research Program Leader to provide inspirational leadership for a Program in Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition in its Sydney Research Laboratory. The Program concentrates on symbolic approaches to research in machine learning and knowledge acquisition and is motivated by the need to make sense out of the explosion in data and device complexity. The program currently has a strong group of early career researchers in robotics and learning and has participation from the machine learning and knowledge acquisition researchers in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. The Program Leader will be expected to build on the current strengths and broaden the research profile of the program.
The Program Leader will be responsible for:
• Providing research leadership for the Program; • Contributing to the development of research priorities, research training, supervision of PhD students, and collaborative project formation; • Attracting and hiring research staff for the program; • Building linkages to other institutions, industry (both Australian and international), relevant government agencies and promoting commercialisation activities.
Further information, which details the information required from all applicants, is available on the NICTA website (http://www.nicta.com.au).
Applications for this position should be submitted to [email protected] by 31 March 2004.
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