School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
It is an exciting time to get involved with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, located on UQ’s St Lucia campus. The School is ramping up its investment in teaching, research and engagement to create an inspiring, diverse and flexible workplace. The direction is backed by a bold, new strategic vision to ensure the School is at the forefront of meaningful research outcomes and pedagogy across its core impact areas of health, data, automation and energy. Boasting strong student enrolments in professionally accredited programs, combined with world-class researchers and facilities, the School is focused on strengthening its position in the global computer science and engineering communities. By attracting the brightest minds and fostering a truly innovative and collaborative work environment, the School will develop global solutions to contemporary issues and mentor the leaders of tomorrow. Details of the School may be accessed on its website at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au.
About This Opportunity
The successful applicant will actively contribute to innovative research solutions and developments within the scope of conversational search. The project aims to identify how conversational agents might help answer grain growers and farmers’ questions and make better farming decisions.
This position is located at the UQ St Lucia campus, renowned as one of Australia’s most attractive university campuses, and located just 7km from Brisbane’s city centre. Bounded by the Brisbane River on three sides, and with outstanding public transport connections, our 114-hectare site provides a perfect work environment – you can enjoy the best of both worlds: a vibrant campus with the tradition of an established university.
Our Ideal Candidate
Successful applicants should possess a PhD in the field of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, or Machine Learning on Textual Data.
You should have demonstrated expert knowledge in relevant empirical research methods, including Knowledge Graph creation, question answering, answer generation and ranking, abstractive summarisation, interactive information retrieval, intent understanding, user-based evaluation (evaluation of IR systems with users). Research experience with conversational search and conversational agents, domain-specific search, and task-based retrieval will be beneficial and highly regarded.
You would have a demonstrated publication record in quality research outlets in relevant fields; examples include ACM SIGIR, ACM WSDM, The Web Conf, ACL, NAACL-HLT, EMNLP, AAAI, ACM TOIS, ACM TIST, TACL.
You would also have showcased ability to successfully work in a research team to deliver outputs to industry and outstanding effective communication and interpersonal skills.
You must have ongoing unrestricted work rights in Australia to apply for this opportunity.
We value diversity and inclusion, and actively encourage applications from those who bring diversity to the University. Our Diversity and Inclusion webpage contains further information if you require additional support. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to recruitment@uq.edu.au.
What We Can Offer
This is a full-time fixed term position at Academic level ARA106.
The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $81,827.77 - $90,982.26, plus super of up to 17%.
You will be able to take advantage of UQ Sport Facilities, salary sacrificing options, on-campus childcare, discounted private health insurance, cheap parking, development programs and many other benefits.
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