Open position: PhD Researcher in EU FP7 project RENDER

Dear All,

the Semantic Technology Institute ( http://www.sti-innsbruck.at ) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) is currently seeking candidates for the following position:

PhD Researcher in EU FP7 project
RENDER

STI Innsbruck is a research institute at the University of Innsbruck
and established itself as one of the key players in the area of
semantic technologies, with excellent ties to other relevant public and
corporate research institutions worldwide.

We offer:

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The stimulating
environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web,
Semantic Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures and formal
languages and reasoning.

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Long-term collaboration
to well-known academic institutions and major companies around the
world.

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A multicultural working
place with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources including
funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer
schools, etc.

We expect:

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A researcher (PhD
student) with a strong background in Computer Science or Information
Technologies and focused research interest and expertise in at least
one of the following areas: knowledge representation, information
retrieval methods, reasoning, formal languages, data mining,
visualization algorithms.

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Interest in working for
the EU FP7 project RENDER.

The RENDER project addresses
the challenges arising when analyzing the dynamics of online
information. An amazing diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mind sets
and backgrounds can be extracted from Web content. Large scale data
management calls upon fundamental challenges with respect to the
purposeful access, processing and management of the Web’s dynamic
information avalanche, in particular when leveraging the diversity that
inherently unfolding through world wide scale collaboration.

RENDER project will engage
with these challenges by developing methods, techniques, software and
data sets that will leverage diversity as a crucial source of
innovation and creativity, whilst providing enhanced support for
feasibly managing data at very large scale, and for designing novel
algorithms that reflect diversity in the ways information is selected,
ranked, aggregated, presented and used in popular communication and
collaboration platforms such as MediaWiki, Twitter, WordPress and
Google Wave.

RENDER will help to realize a
world where information is acquired and shared in a fundamentally
different manner than the consensual approach promoted by movements
such as Web 2.0, and where communication and collaboration across the
borders of social, cultural or professional communities are truly
enabled via advanced Web technology, supporting one of the credos of
European society: “United in diversity”.

The project consortium is an
interdisciplinary team of engineers and researchers in Computing
Science, Web Science and Knowledge Management from all over Europe. The
contribution of STI Innsbruck is on semantic technologies for
knowledge/diversity representation, lightweight reasoning and
information retrieval methods. The aim is to develop representation
paradigms and algorithms to make diversity-rich information cognitively
accessible by taking novel approaches to data analysis and
visualization into account. This will help end users to understand and
access diversity features, and to effectively process complex data sets.

The project will run for 36
months starting in October 2010.

For further information
regarding our organization, research and projects, please see http://www.sti-innsbruck.at .

We kindly invite you to
submit your application to [email protected] .
Please include a current resume, a list of publications (if
applicable), and digital versions of your most relevant works (such as
graduation thesis or latest publications).

In case of any further
questions regarding this position please contact Reto
Krummenacher .