Description
L'École de technologie supérieur (ÉTS) is a rapidly evolving university in engineering and technology located in downtown Montreal. ÉTS offers undergraduate and graduate programs focused on applied engineering as well as state-of-the-art research infrastructure. ÉTS is also home to the Centech, a business incubator, offering support services for researchers wishing to commercialize their research.
By joining l'ÉTS, you will be joining a team of highly active professors and researchers in the school's various research chairs, labs, institutes and groups. Your work will make a tangible contribution to scientific progress and the development of Quebec's productivity and competitiveness, as well as the training of a highly qualified workforce.
What we offer :****
A start-up and an equipment fund to support your scientific career
Financial support for research and teaching (supervision of student's recognition, teaching credits, correction help, etc.)
A personalized onboarding process
A structure to promote your research as well as networking activities to make yourself known and help you recruit students.
A work environment favorable to your career development, for both research and teaching.
A mentor program for all faculty members offered at your arrival and throughout your career.
Support for the immigration process and a relocation program for your family
A full-course program to learn French.
The Systems Engineering Department offers multidisciplinary study programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels that are tailored to the needs of businesses regarding the optimization of operation and services, organization work, digital transformation, computerization of production systems and industrial automatization. Courses are focused on the integration of computer and technological systems using mechanics, electronics and control, computer science and industrial engineering.
The department is recruiting a professor in intelligent systems engineering. The desired person must have general knowledge in the field of systems engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science related to artificial intelligence.
Your expertise should be oriented towards one or more of the following fields of research:
machine learning;
deep neural networks;
natural language processing;
data science;
reinforcement learning;
intelligent and autonomous systems;
computer vision;
signal processing;
pattern recognition.
You will have to demonstrate advanced skills and competencies in large linguistic models (LLM), vision-language models (VLM), and foundation models, multimodal learning, as well as deep transformative models that are the basis of many LLMs.
Depending on your expertise and research interests, you could join the team at the LIVIA - Imaging, Vision and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, whose mission is to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques to solve complex problems related to medical imaging, document analysis, biometrics, affective computing, health, video analysis, etc.
As part of the research team, selected candidates will:
Teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in fields related to Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science;
Mentor graduate students;
Carry out funded, potentially interdisciplinary research projects with local, national and international partners;
Develop a research program;
Publish scientific articles;
Complete grant applications, particularly those directed at NSERC and FQRNT.
Hold or be about to obtain a Doctorate (PhD) in Engineering in a relevant field for this position;
Be a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) or be eligible to join the OIQ and undertake the necessary steps to become a member before submitting an application for full professorship;
Have experience in conducting research in collaboration with industry or solid experience in industrial R&D;
Demonstrate excellent skills related to training highly-qualified personnel through research projects and teaching;
Be proficient in French (oral and written), in compliance with the ÉTS Language Policy (in French), or demonstrate a willingness to learn French and register to a French program with the support of ÉTS.
Depending on the candidate's availability
All applications will be processed in strict confidentiality.
ÉTS will take into account any leaves that may result in career interruptions or delays. Therefore, we encourage you to mention any such leave that may have affected your professional path. We will take this information into consideration when evaluating your application.
In case of a disability, we may offer accommodation measures during the hiring process.
Interested candidates are invited to submit their application **before 5:00 p.m. (EST) on September 9, 2024
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Each application must include the information indicated below in a single PDF document, in the following order :
An automated (dynamic) Table of Contents;
A cover letter;
Your curriculum vitae;
A statement of your teaching objectives;
Your research plan, including an indication of how your work complements the areas of research targeted by a department or research group at ÉTS;
A sample of your research achievements (e.g.: recent scientific articles).
If you require more information, please contact bap-candidatures@etsmtl.ca You must submit a complete application for it to be considered. Only those candidates who are retained for an interview will be contacted.
This is a tenure-track position. The process and benefits will be determined in accordance with the applicable collective agreement convention collective de l'Association des professeurs de l'ÉTS (APÉTS) .
In compliance with the immigration requirements in effect in Canada, ÉTS invites all qualified individuals to apply. However, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. When submitting an application, it is important to indicate whether you are able to work in Canada, so that the applicable immigration procedures can be planned accordingly.
