Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

at  University of Sheffield

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Lecturer (~Associate Professor) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to join the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. The post is supported by a PhD studentship (paying UK student fees and stipend for 3.5 years) and a generous startup package for equipment and travel.
You will work within our internationally leading NLP Research Group. Established in 1993, the group is one of the largest and most successful language processing groups in the UK. It currently comprises 13 academics, with research interests that span foundation models, machine learning for NLP, computational social science including social media and disinformation analysis, machine translation, language resources and architectures for NLP, dialogue systems, information retrieval, and text summarisation inter alia.
There is also the opportunity to work with The Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI), which is a strategic initiative supported by a £3.64m investment, dedicated to the transformation and acceleration of research, innovation, and teaching on and with AI, and collaboration with the Insigneo Institute and the Healthy Lifespan Institute.
You should hold a PhD in NLP, machine learning or a related area with a strong publication record in top conferences/journals such as ACL, EMNLP, TACL, NAACL, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML. You should be able to conduct research to the highest standards. This will include securing research funding, publishing in high impact journals and conferences, supervision of research students and research project management. In addition, you will play a key role in maintaining our reputation for high-quality teaching by designing, delivering and assessing undergraduate and postgraduate level programmes in NLP and other topics in computer science.
We pride ourselves on being a friendly place to work, where mutual respect for diversity and equality is a shared value. We were one of the first Computer Science schools in the UK to achieve an Athena SWAN Silver award – recognising our success at improving the gender diversity of our staff and student cohort. More information on the School of Computer Science can be found at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cs.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University. We also welcome applications from candidates with industrial research experience.
We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
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