Two Postdoctoral Fellowships available in Information Retrieval

These two postdoctoral fellowships will be funded jointly by the Early Researcher Award, the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation and York University. Salary will be competitive. The initial appointment is one-year and most likely will be renewed in the second year. The successful applicants are expected to complete his/her Ph.D. in related disciplines no later than six months after beginning their fellowships.

Applicants should submit a letter describing their relevant research, experiences and research interests, a curriculum vitae, links to representative papers to jhuang AT yorku.ca and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to Prof. Jimmy Huang, School of Information Technology, 3048 TEL Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3.

Deadline: Applications must be received by July 31, 2009. Interviews will be conducted in early August. Only top candidates will be contacted. It is expected that the successful applicants will begin postdoctoral research with Prof. Huang at York University by December 31, 2009.