JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Večna pot 113, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Job position: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor

Employment for:

• 1 position for an indefinite period with full-time work or
• 2 positions for an indefinite period with shorter working hours (50% or 20 hours per week) or
• 4 positions for an indefinite period with shorter working hours (25% or 10 hours per week).

Conditions for the position:

a) Required education:

• PhD degree (previous one) in computer science, information systems and technologies or relevant technical disciplines,
• PhD degree (third Bologna cycle) in computer science, information systems and technologies or relevant technical disciplines;

b) valid habilitation title of assistant professor/associate professor/professor or guest teacher:

• If the candidate does not meet none of the above requirements, but meets the minimal quantitative and qualitative criteria for the appointment to the title, the candidate has to enclose a statement that he/she agrees with the employment application to be also considered as an application for election to or recognition of the title;

c) Knowledge of Slovenian language on B2 level (CEFR). If the selected candidate does not comply with this condition, it must be fulfilled at the latest in three years after the assumption of duties;

d) Functional skills: rhetorical skills, innovation skills, organizational abilities for one’s own work and the work of co-workers.

Short job description:

• design and update of curriculum and adaptation of study programs to university and higher education rules,
• organization and co-organization of all activities relevant to the execution of study courses in accordance with curricula and developments in the professional field, coordination of work and supervision of the work of other course collaborators (assistants, technical and other staff),
• performance of course lectures, seminars and other educational activities within study programs,
• guidance in, evaluation and correction of tests and exams,
• mentoring students in their seminar papers, diploma theses and other works,
• participation in other education activities in the professional field (nostrification, etc.),
• scientific research work, study and development of concepts, theories and methods,
• care for safe and healthy work of the employees and students in the unit, their adequate education and training of people who come in contact with dangerous substances regarding personal protection equipment and other safety measures,
• performing other tasks falling within the wider professional field of the workplace.

Deadline to submit application: December 2 2024.

Application:

Candidates submit their application with required documentation to kadrovska@fri.uni-lj.si, adding »VU – Name Surname«. State the desired employment percentage.

The University of Ljubljana promotes gender equality in employment and work. The employment contract will be concluded with a candidate who meets the requirements for the position.

The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, reserves the right, in accordance with contractual freedom under Article 24 of the Employment Relationships Act (ZDR-1), not to select a candidate even if they meet the requirements. The Faculty also reserves the right not to fill all advertised positions.

Contact person at the Faculty:

HR department

e-mail: kadrovska@fri.uni-lj.si

RESEARCH ANd ASSIsTANT POSITIONS

The Faculty of Computer and Information Science is creating new researcher positions in the context of calls for research projects, and will also be recruiting teaching assistants in the new academic year.

Most of them require a degree in a relevant professional field (mainly computer science and informatics, but also other technical and natural sciences). These positions are particularly suitable for those who are pursuing a doctorate - as the tuition fees (partly or fully) are covered by the faculty or the research laboratory, and the performance of the post is also partly adjusted to accommodate the workload.

If you are interested in participating, please get in touch with the contact persons below as soon as possible.

Computer Communications Laboratory

Type of work: 50% research assistant, 50% teaching assistant,

Additional requirements: The candidate is expected to contribute to teaching lab sessions in courses related to Android programming and/or computer networks.

Duration of employment: 4 years.

Job description: Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, have been trained on huge swaths of publicly available data and have been shown to contain a tremendous amount of the, so called, world knowledge. While this allows LLMs to handle diverse complex queries, the models nevertheless remain general and ill-suited for many specific use cases that rely on specialised data collected in a specific context (e.g., detecting critical events in physiological sensor readings taken from wearable devices a person carries). In this work, building upon federated learning, we will devise novel approaches for distributed resource-efficient fine-tuning of LLMs, so that they can be custom trained for various use cases in ubiquitous computing. The work will be practically implemented on a testbed of Android and single-board computer devices.

Research area: Context-aware AI through distributed LLM fine-tuning on mobile devices  

Contact: Assoc. Prof. Veljko Pejović (veljko.pejovic@fri.uni-lj.si)

Laboratory for Cognitive Modelling

Type of work: researcher, doctoral student.

Duration of employment: at least 3 years.

Research area: machine learning with a focus on explainable artificial intelligence, large language models.

Additional requirements: knowledge of machine learning and statistics, good programming skills.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Marko Robnik Šikonja (Marko.RobnikSikonja@fri.uni-lj.si)

Type of work: researcher, doctoral student.

Duration of employment: at least 3 years.

Research area: Natural Language Processing.

Additional requirements: knowledge of natural language processing or machine learning, good programming skills.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Marko Robnik Šikonja (Marko.RobnikSikonja@fri.uni-lj.si)

Computer Vision Laboratory

Type of work: researcher, doctoral student.

Duration of employment: 4 years.

Research area: computer vision; participation in projects related to image biometrics.

Additional requirements: knowledge of computer vision, deep learning, Python.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Peer (Peter.Peer@fri.uni-lj.si)

Laboratory for Data Technologies

Tip dela: researcher, doctoral student.

Čas trajanja zaposlitve: 4 years or more.

Research area: language and speech technologies; work on applied and research projects related to the use of language and speech technologies.

Desired skills: indicative knowledge of the research area (language and speech technologies), knowledge of programming (Python), basic knowledge of Linux.

Contact: prof. dr. Marko Bajec (marko.bajec@fri.uni-lj.si)

Computer Structures and Systems Laboratory

Tip dela: researcher, doctoral student.

Čas trajanja zaposlitve: 4 years or more.

Research area: language and speech technologies; work on applied and research projects related to the use of language and speech technologies (speech recognition and synthesis, text processing, large language models, model learning and adaptation, high-performance infrastructure management, inference and microservices).

Desired skills: indicative knowledge of the research area (language and speech technologies), knowledge of programming (Python), basic knowledge of Linux, containers, microservices and devops.

Contact: Assoc. Prof. dr. Iztok Lebar Bajec (ilb@fri.uni-lj.si)