Lecturer in Computer Science x2

Job id: 086426. Wage: £51,974 to £61,021 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 15 March 2024. Cut-off date: 14 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: Pure, Mathematical & Engineering Sci. Division: Informatics.

Contact particulars:Professor Luc Moreau. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Educational & Educating.

Job description

The Division of Informatics is seeking to recruit two Lecturers in Pc Science.

That is an thrilling time to affix us as we proceed to develop our division and realise our imaginative and prescient of a various, inclusive and progressive division of Informatics at some of the prestigious universities within the UK. We search candidates who will assist us in our ambitions in inclusivity and variety.

As we proceed to develop and strengthen our division, we’re searching for to nominate a lecturer in pc science. Whereas we welcome functions from candidates who’ve a global profile in analysis in any of the core areas of Pc Science, we’re significantly concerned with analysis experience within the following areas:  software program engineering, devops, testing and verification, software program efficiency engineering, software program architectures, cloud and net computing, programming methods, programming languages, and databases.

To understand our mission, we have a look at pc science challenges with a broad perspective and usually sit in this system committees of and publish in top-tier and well-known venues in pc science. Prime-quality analysis establishes members of the Division as leaders of their fields, however it’s its transformative facet that gives the chance to serve the society whereas supporting King’s as an excellent establishment in science and expertise. As such, the Division has robust hyperlinks with trade, which engages with us in collaborative analysis tasks.

We provide undergraduate and postgraduate schooling (in each pc science and synthetic intelligence), catering for the wants of our college students and the industries by which they are going to work.  It’s important that candidates have the passion and dedication wanted to make sure the success of those programmes. The profitable applicant for this put up shall be concerned in delivering instructing in core areas of pc science.

The profitable candidate shall be invited to affix one in all our analysis teams and could have the chance to contribute to cross-cutting hubs (see https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/analysis/index.aspx ). Analysis collaboration throughout analysis teams, with departmental hubs and with different Departments within the School and throughout the School is strongly inspired.

For additional details about the Division of Informatics at King’s, pleas see https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/luc.moreau/informatics/overview.pdf .

This put up shall be supplied on an indefinite contract

It is a full-time put up – 100% full time equal

Key duties

• ​​Undertake a self-directed programme of analysis and scholarship at a degree commensurate with present worldwide customary.
• ​Improve the analysis profile of the Division by tutorial outputs, together with publications and scientific conferences, scholarship, tutorial and industrial collaboration, affect and different externally going through actions.
• ​Supervise and practice postgraduate college students and postdoctoral analysis employees to make sure their efficient improvement.
• ​Enthusiastically contribute to tutorial administration and assist the administration and improvement of the division to additional its schooling, analysis actions, and ambitions.
• ​Ship a superb scholar expertise by progressive instructing and evaluation strategies for each undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes, in core pc science and a specialism in pc science or synthetic intelligence.
• ​Be answerable for the wellbeing and pastoral care of scholars, together with appearing as Private Tutor.
• ​Interact with and contribute to division, school, and institutional degree initiatives in accordance with technique in any respect ranges of the organisation.
• ​Actively promote and take part in equality, variety, and collegiality.

​The above listing of duties is probably not exhaustive, and the put up holder shall be required to undertake such duties and duties as could fairly be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the put up. ​

Expertise, data, and expertise 

Important standards

1.       PhD in pc science, software program engineering, synthetic intelligence or associated discipline.  

2.       Means to outline and lead a analysis space and a rising analysis document in pc science as evidenced by publications in prime quality journals and conferences; analysis expertise and good popularity in related analysis discipline; potential to amass analysis challenge funding; means to oversee analysis college students. 

3.       Means to show undergraduate and postgraduate modules in core areas of pc science. 

4.       Means to make a big contribution to administrative work. 

Fascinating standards

1.       Educating and analyzing expertise. 

2.       Expertise in attracting exterior analysis funds. 

3.       Administrative expertise. 

4.       Means to construct relationships and networks with colleagues and exterior stakeholders throughout the School and externally. 

Our employees and college students come from all around the world and the Division is pleased with its pleasant and inclusive tradition. Range is positively inspired with plenty of family-friendly insurance policies, together with the operation of a core hours coverage, the correct to use for versatile working and assist for workers getting back from durations of prolonged absence, for instance maternity go away. The Division of Informatics is dedicated to making sure an inclusive interview course of and can reimburse as much as £250 in the direction of any further care prices (for a dependent little one or grownup) incurred on account of attending an interview for this place. 

The choice course of will embody a presentation and a panel interview. The candidates may also have the chance to fulfill members of the division. Interviews are scheduled to be held in week beginning tenth June 2024. Displays scheduling shall be confirmed as soon as shortlisting has taken place. Conferences, shows and interviews shall be held on-line.