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As a Junior Lecturer you will assist with teaching in courses that are related to your research project, in particular AI: Principles & Techniques, Programming 1, and Programming 2. Apart from course management tasks you will have the opportunity to further develop your teaching skills in individual supervision, guest lecturing, and course development, culminating in obtaining the university teaching qualification (BKO) in the course of this appointment. The course coordinators will also be the supervisors of your research project described below. You will be expected to spend 60% of your working time on the research project, with the aim to obtain a PhD. In addition, 40% of your time should be spent on teaching within the AI programme.
Inspired by the structure of the brain (largely parallel computations in neurons, communicating with each other via synapses), neuromorphic architectures co-locate computation and memory in artificial spiking neural networks. The spiking behaviour allows for potentially energy-lean computations. A vital research challenge, however, is to understand and utilise the potential (and limitations) of these new architectures. Your research project contributes to this and aims to understand which types of computational problems in scientific computing can be efficiently solved by energy-lean computations on neuromorphic hardware and which types of problems are inherently energy-expensive. We seek to identify and utilise brain-inspired energy-efficient computing primitives, design patterns, and algorithmic approaches that are particularly promising for scientific computing (e.g. graph optimisation problems, partitioning and routing problems, matrix multiplications, scheduling problems). You will develop new data structures and algorithms, obtain lower and upper bounds on resource usage, and extend our formal model of computation with new insights.
Fixed-term contract: six years.
You will work as a junior lecturer in the Artificial Intelligence programme. You will be given the opportunity to obtain your university teaching qualification (BKO) and work towards your PhD degree as well. The AI programme offers a BSc in AI, a pre-Master's programme, and an MSc in AI, with specialisations in Cognitive Computing and Interactive Technology. Our fully English-taught programmes show a continuing steady growth in student numbers and are among the top AI programmes in the Netherlands. We have the ambition to be among the top European programmes in Cognitive AI.
You will conduct your research at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. The Donders Institute is a world-class interfaculty research centre, that houses more than 700 researchers devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of the human mind. Research at the Donders Institute is focused around four themes: 1. Language and communication, 2. Perception, action and control, 3. Plasticity and memory, 4. Neural computation and Neurotechnology. Excellent, state-of-the-art research facilities are available for the broad range of research that is being conducted at the Donders Institute. The Donders Institute has been assessed by an international evaluation committee as 'excellent' and is recognised as a 'very stimulating environment for top researchers, as well as for young talent'. The Donders Institute fosters a collaborative, multidisciplinary, supportive research environment with a diverse international staff. English is the lingua franca at the Institute.
More specifically, you will be embedded in the Brain Inspired Computing group at the Donders Centre for Cognition. The members of this group are interested in the foundations and applications of neuromorphic computing, particularly with respect to algorithm design and the development of a formal neuromorphic complexity theory.
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