Jobs

Our major objective is to establish Semantic technologies as a core pillar of modern Computer Science, thereby providing interoperability and scalability for Semantically Enabled Service Orientated Architectures. STI Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the following positions:

PhD student in EU projects PeerAssist and PlanetData

The Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck (http://www.sti-innsbruck.at), formerly known as DERI Innsbruck, was founded in 2002 and has developed into a challenging and dynamic research institute of approximately 40 people. STI Innsbruck collaborates with an international network of institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA, as well as with global industrial partners.

STI Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the position of a PhD student.

We offer:

The stimulating environment of a leading research institute in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures and formal languages and reasoning.
Long-term collaboration to well-known academic institutions and major companies around the world.
A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc.

We expect:

A strong background in Computer Science or Information Technologies and focused research interest and expertise in at least one of the following areas: knowledge representation, ontology engineering, semantic technologies, social networks and web communities research, mobile and RFID-enabled services, information retrieval methods, reasoning, formal languages, data mining, visualization techniques, human-computer interaction.
A formal degree and interest required for pursuing a PhD at the University of Innsbruck.
Interest in working for the EU projects PeerAssist and PlanetData.

The main objectives of the PeerAssist project are the conceptualization, design, implementation and demonstration of a flexible Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform, which will allow elderly people (not necessarily familiar with ICT technologies) to build virtual communities dynamically based on interests and needs they share. The PeerAssist platform will facilitate establishing on demand ad-hoc communities with friends, family, neighbors, caregivers, facilitators, care providers, etc., based on shared interests and communication needs. The community building and the P2P interaction will be achieved using information extracted from peer roles, profiles and user modeling, context that describes the overall user environment, and the specific request initiated, or service provided, by a peer, all of which are represented semantically in a machine understandable form.

PlanetData (http://www.planet-data.eu) is an EU Network of Excellence coordinated by STI Innsbruck. Its main aim is to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way. PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data management and its application to the creation of useful, open data sets.

The projects’ consortia are interdisciplinary team of engineers and researchers in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Web Science and Knowledge Management from all over Europe of industrial and academic organizations. The contribution of STI Innsbruck is on semantic technologies for context-aware knowledge representation, capturing and processing of the information arriving from sensors, as well as on the design, prototyping and end-user evaluation of novel mobile and augmented reality services that comprise information about the communities and social networks. As part of the projects, the candidate will be also involved in community building, workshop and symposium organization, contributing to roadmaps and white papers, as well as supporting the provision of semantic and service infrastructures to the wider research community.

The projects will run for 24 (PeerAssist) and 48 (PlanetData) months, while starting in September-October 2010.

We kindly invite you to submit your application to hr@sti2.at. Please include a current resume, a list of publications (if applicable), and digital versions of your most relevant works (such as graduation thesis or latest publications).

In case of further questions regarding this position please contact Dr. Anna Fensel (anna.fensel@sti2.at).

EU Project manager (part-time or full-time)

Major tasks

EU projects require an extensive management of scientific and administrative tasks in international cooperation with small and large companies and universities. The collaboration with diverse European partners demands social skills and organizational abilities. The management and reporting in European projects demand, in particular, flexibility and endurance. In certain circumstances travelling to project meetings within the EU are required.

We expect

Excellent English: fluent in spoken and written
Good computer skills
Team-minded, communicative, flexible
Preferred: Students of Information Systems, Production and Logistics Management, and/or Computer Science.

We kindly invite you to submit your application (including CV and photo) to hr@sti2.at

PhD student in EU FP7 project RENDER

We offer:

The stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures and formal languages and reasoning.
Long-term collaboration to well-known academic institutions and major companies around the world.
A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc.

We expect:

A PhD student with a strong background in Computer Science or Information Technologies and focused research interest and expertise in at least one of the following areas: knowledge representation, information retrieval methods, reasoning, formal languages, data mining, visualization algorithms.
Interest in working for the EU FP7 project RENDER.

The RENDER project addresses the challenges arising when analyzing the dynamics of online information. An amazing diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mind sets and backgrounds can be extracted from Web content. Large scale data management calls upon fundamental challenges with respect to the purposeful access, processing and management of the Web’s dynamic information avalanche, in particular when leveraging the diversity that inherently unfolding through world wide scale collaboration.

RENDER project will engage with these challenges by developing methods, techniques, software and data sets that will leverage diversity as a crucial source of innovation and creativity, whilst providing enhanced support for feasibly managing data at very large scale, and for designing novel algorithms that reflect diversity in the ways information is selected, ranked, aggregated, presented and used in popular communication and collaboration platforms such as MediaWiki, Twitter, WordPress and Google Wave.

RENDER will help to realize a world where information is acquired and shared in a fundamentally different manner than the consensual approach promoted by movements such as Web 2.0, and where communication and collaboration across the borders of social, cultural or professional communities are truly enabled via advanced Web technology, supporting one of the credos of European society: “United in diversity”.

The project consortium is an interdisciplinary team of engineers and researchers in Computing Science, Web Science and Knowledge Management from all over Europe. The contribution of STI Innsbruck is on semantic technologies for knowledge/diversity representation, lightweight reasoning and information retrieval methods. The aim is to develop representation paradigms and algorithms to make diversity-rich information cognitively accessible by taking novel approaches to data analysis and visualization into account. This will help end users to understand and access diversity features, and to effectively process complex data sets.

The project will run for 36 months starting in October 2010.

For further information regarding our organization, research and projects, please see http://www.sti-innsbruck.at.

In case of any further questions regarding this position please contact Reto Krummenacher.

Post-Docs and Senior Researchers

To strengthen our team we are seeking for a senior researcher with a strong background in knowledge representation, logics and formal specification languages. Experience in algorithmic aspects within these domains are a particular plus for respective candidates.

We offer:

The stimulating environment of a leading research group in this area

Excellent ties to research groups worldwide

Up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences

We expect:

An excellent PhD degree, or equivalent academic degree, in Computer Science or related disciplines.
Research interest in at least one of the areas Knowledge Representation, Logics (e.g. Description Logics, First-order Logics, Logic Programming), Ontology Languages, or related Semantic Web topics.
Practical experience in computational aspects of logics and the construction of respective software systems are a definite plus for applicants.
The willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in projects funded by the European Commission and national Austrian agencies.

We are looking for individuals who will be able to continue their existing field of research within our ongoing and new research projects. The senior positions will also include management responsibility for a research cluster of 3 – 6 junior researchers.

For further information regarding this position and our institute, please see http://www.sti-innsbruck.at. We invite you to submit your application to hr@sti2.at. Please include a current resume, a list of publications, and digital versions of your most relevant works.

In case of any questions regarding this position please contact Anna Fensel.

PhD-Researchers

We offer

A stimulating environment of a leading research group in the fields of Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, formal languages and reasoning
Excellent ties to research groups worldwide
Up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including funding for attending international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc.
Standardized international exchange programs such as BIT
Opportunity to work in nationally funded integrated research projects
Opportunity to take part in FP7 1^st Call international research projects focusing on topics such as Web 2.0, service-oriented computing, formal languages and reasoning, ontologies and ontology engineering
Opportunity to work with internationally established academic and industrial partners
Multicultural working place with modern infrastructure and facilities

We expect

A strong background in Computer Science or related disciplines
Willingness to work in an international environment
The ability to take part in large-scale international research projects
Willingness to combine formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to solve real-world problems
Research interest and expertise in at least one of the areas: Formal languages and reasoning (Description Logics, Logic Programming), ontology languages, Semantic Web services, ontologies, business aspects of semantic systems.

In case of any questions regarding this position please contact Anna Fensel.

Student researchers

We offer:

Work in an international team
Interesting research topics related to the area of Semantic Web and Web Services
Supervision of bachelor/master theses
The possibility to learn about scientific methods
The possibility to work in international research projects
Excellent ties to research groups worldwide
Flexible working hours

We expect:

The willingness to learn about and further develop new technologies
Experience and interest in software development
Background in Java and Web applications
The willingness to work in a multi-cultural team
The ability to work autonomously
Fluently written and spoken English

Applications including a CV should be sent to hr@sti2.at.

In case of any questions regarding this position please contact Anna Fensel.