Job: Senior Research Fellow in Information Retrieval

Senior Research Fellow in Information Retrieval
Royal Academy of Engineering/Microsoft Research

Ref: 13332/DPO/A3
Salary: £41,544 - £46,758

The Information Retrieval group at Glasgow, led by Professor Keith van
Rijsbergen, plays a leading role in the international information retrieval community. Research is based on both theory and experiment, aiming at giving end-users novel, effective, and efficient access to the world of multi-media information.

The Department of Computing Science provides a world leading environment for research, with research focussed in 7 groups (Bioinformatics, Computer Vision & Graphics, Embedded, Networked, and Distributed Systems, Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms, Human Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval and  Software Engineering and Technology).
This post is a five year senior research fellowship, leading to a permanent Readership in Computing Science.

For further information about the information retrieval group and the
Department,  see the websites at http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/ and
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/.

Potential candidates are encouraged to make informal enquiries to Professor Keith van Rijsbergen (tel. 0141 330 4463, email [email protected]) or
Professor Muffy Calder (tel. 0141 330 4969, email [email protected]).
Applications should be submitted to

Jacqui Brannan,
Department of Computing Science,
17 Lilybank Gardens,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow,
G12 8QQ

Closing date: 29 June 2007