Full Professor Position for Games Engineering / Immersive Games at the HCI Group Würzburg

We currently have an open full professor position at our HCI group in Germany: 

http://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de

The condensed information is as follows (the full official announcement is attached):

The professorship will be in the area of Games Engineering. The HCI group starts a new games engineering program starting fall 2016 and the position is assigned to complement the existing staff and expertise of our group to run this program. 

This is a tenured position at the W2 level with a base salary as described here: 
https://www.lff.bayern.de/bezuege/besoldung/

Base salaries usually are complemented with a competetive bonus depending on the candidates qualification. Additional German civil service amenities apply.

Potential candidates will have to have a PhD in computer science or a comparable degree and should either habe a habilitation or have a good research record, preferably of at least two years after their PhD to qualify as a so-called habilitation equivalent. Teaching experience is desirable.  

If you have any further questions about this position, please contact Marc.

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Würzburg is a lovely city in the northern part of Bavaria in Germany. It is close to many regional and national cities like Frankfurt, Nürnberg, and Munich. The city’s climate is more on the sunny side, Würzburg has a long-standing tradition in wine production. It is a vibrant city due to a high percentage of young people and students which shape the picture and the social life of the city. More information can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Würzburg

About the University:

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/new/

The roots of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg reach back as far as 1402. In that era, it was the sixth institution of higher education to be founded in the German-speaking regions of Europe, after the Universities of Prague, Vienna, Heidelberg, Cologne, and Erfurt. Today, Würzburg's University is counted among the medium-sized institutions of higher education in Germany. It comprises ten faculties with about 400 professors and 28,000 students.

Würzburg University is one of the leading institutions of higher education in Germany – this is verified by the rankings of domestic and international research organisations as well as international expert committees. On an international level, too, the University of Würzburg ranks in the top bracket of academic institutions in many scientific disciplines including biology, medicine, physics, and psychology.

Funded Master or PhD student position in 3D environments and HCI

A fully funded graduate (Master or PhD) student position on Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction and Teleoperation in the Graduate Program of Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Appointment: 34 months (with possible upgrade from Master to PhD and extension)
Monthly scholarship: R$ 3.065,00

Please note that the scholarship value for this project is far above the regular CNPq and CAPES values.

Requirements: to present a bachelor or master diploma in Computer Science or related area

An ideal candidate for this position has excellent programming skills, including experience with engines such as Unity3D and must have experience in at least two of these topics:
(i) human-computer interfaces,
(ii) 3D environments modeling and simulation,
(iii) computer vision, image processing and other sensor data applications.

The project goal is to develop, demonstrate and evaluate new interfaces for monitoring and controlling an in development robotic system for the oil industry in partnership with a large oil company (Petrobras). Sensor fusion data analytics and safe interface approaches will be considered. This is a three years research project in collaboration with several partners: SENAI-SC, SENAI-RS, UFRGS-Faculty of Engineering, UFRGS-Institute of Informatics.

Excellent candidates must submit a presentation letter, CV and contact information of at least two professional references (e.g. former advisor, employer, supervisor).

Start: immediate
Location: Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

For further information please contact:

Prof. Anderson Maciel (amaciel@inf.ufrgs.br)
Prof. Luciana Nedel (nedel@inf.ufrgs.br)

Funded masters and PhD positions in Digital Media at Carleton University

New Master's and PhD of Information Technology in Digital Media in the School of Information Technology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

We are very pleased to introduce our new graduate programs with a specialization in Digital Media. These unique programs let students focus on areas dealing with the development of content and technology for entertainment, education and communication.

Application deadline for funding: June 1st

*Digital Media (Master's)*

Students entering the DM program will have an undergraduate degree in one of the related three primary disciplines of Technology (e.g. Computer Science/Engineering and Information Technology), Content (e.g. Arts and Humanities), and People (e.g. Psychology, Communication and Business). We will also consider applicants who have gained intermediate undergraduate level computer programming skills through relevant professional experience. Other applicants will need to take a set of additional courses that fulfills this requirement (stipulated on a case-by-case basis).

*Digital Media (PhD)*
Applicants to this program will normally hold a Master's degree in one of the three related disciplines (Technology, Content, and People) but demonstrate the ability to work in multi-disciplinary groups and have some general technology (digital media) background.

For more information, see www.csit.carleton.ca/grad.

IT position at PSiDEO

Based in Geneva (HQ) Singapore and Bangalore, operating in more than 30 countries, PSiDEO provides a wide range of premium outsourced IT services to global customers and develops business software solutions for targeted vertical markets.
Our core activities are the strength of our company:
Delivering full Enterprise IT as a Service by providing packages including hardware, software and IT services: NGIT-Managed Services. Managing IT infrastructures – Adaptive Outsourcing: audit, consulting, design, implementation, maintenance, training, strategic outsourcing of IT operations (including IT dpt management roles). Software development of large business solutions among which our leading product B-Com Community and Event Management platform (10 years of development, more than 1000 tables, largely more than 5Mio lines of code).
We are looking for creative and passionate computer science engineers (BSc or MSc) with a solid technical background able to join our IT and software development teams. Our strong engineering culture allows people with high potential to fully deliver their unique contributions to our projects and allows these contributions to be recognized.
Qualifications required: For software engineering jobs: Profile

• Bachelor / Master diploma in computer sciences
• Good communication skills
• Eager to understand and solve complex business and technical problems
• Perfect command of English

Skills

• Software architecture: client-server, n-tiers, SOA
• Object oriented programming, C# / .NET expert level
• Database design: MS SQL Server, Oracle (entity-relationship model)
• Modern web, mobile and API clients architecture and development experience
• Design patterns and methodologies

For IT jobs: Profile

• Bachelor / Master degree in Computer Sciences
• Excellent customer care and communication skills
• Eager to understand and solve complex technical problems
• Flexible and able to prioritize workload
• Perfect command of English

Skills

• Large Windows infrastructures design and operation
• System Center Management Suite (SCOM & SCSM)
• Cloud operations/support (private, hybrid and public)
• Virtualization: VMware ESXi and associated management tools
• Server based computing: Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View, Remote Desktop Services
• Complex LAN / WAN / Wireless networks, VPN and security (Cisco, Check Point)
• Backup solutions (VERITAS NetBackup)
• (Oracle, MS SQL Server)

Bonus skills :

• Unified communication (VoIP, ToIP, IM,VC)
• Storage (SAN, NAS - HPE, Cisco)

http://www.psideo.ch/Careers

Full Professor Position for Games Engineering / Immersive Games at the HCI Group Würzburg

The HCI Group at Würzburg in Germany currently has an open full professor position:

http://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de

The professorship will be in the area of Games Engineering with a specific focus of immersive games. The HCI group starts a new games engineering program starting fall 2016 and the position is assigned to complement the existing staff and expertise of our group to run this program.

This is a tenured position at the W2 level with a base salary as described here:
https://www.lff.bayern.de/bezuege/besoldung/

Base salaries usually are complemented with a competetive bonus depending on the candidates qualification. Additional German civil service amenities apply.

Potential candidates will have to have a PhD in computer science or a comparable degree and should either habe a habilitation or have a good research record, preferably of at least two years after their PhD to qualify as a so-called habilitation equivalent. Teaching experience is desirable. 

Würzburg is a lovely city in the northern part of Bavaria in Germany. It is close to many regional and national cities like Frankfurt, Nürnberg, and Munich. The city’s climate is more on the sunny side, Würzburg has a long-standing tradition in wine production. It is a vibrant city due to a high percentage of young people and students which shape the picture and the social life of the city. More information can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Würzburg

About the University:

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/new/

The roots of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg reach back as far as 1402. In that era, it was the sixth institution of higher education to be founded in the German-speaking regions of Europe, after the Universities of Prague, Vienna, Heidelberg, Cologne, and Erfurt. Today, Würzburg's University is counted among the medium-sized institutions of higher education in Germany. It comprises ten faculties with about 400 professors and 28,000 students.

Würzburg University is one of the leading institutions of higher education in Germany – this is verified by the rankings of domestic and international research organisations as well as international expert committees. On an international level, too, the University of Würzburg ranks in the top bracket of academic institutions in many scientific disciplines including biology, medicine, physics, and psychology.

University of Bremen, Germany: PhD research position

PhD research position

with the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Group

at the University of Bremen, Germany

Job Description:

The work in this position will comprise research on 3D geometric algorithms, virtual reality, and 3D visualization techniques. In many of the application areas we are currently working on (e.g., space mission simulation or operating rooms), efficient collision detection, penetration computation, and collision handling algorithms are important enabling technologies. In addition, visualization and interaction techniques are necessary for providing good understanding of the progress and the results of the simulation. Often, both the visualization and the interaction take place in 3D virtual environments.

The work will comprise the design and development of those techniques and algorithms, in collaboration with a small team working already on various interactive and VR simulator projects.

The tasks will also comprise a small amount of help with teaching in the computer science program (e.g., as teaching assistant).

More information can be found at  http://cgvr.informatik.uni-bremen.de/jobs.shtml

PostDoc at the University of Florida

"The Media Effects and Technology Lab at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications (http://www.jou.ufl.edu) has an opening for a postdoctoral fellowship. The primary responsibilities of the fellow will be to help build the virtual reality (VR) component of the lab, including managing hardware and software, designing and running studies, analyzing data, assisting with grant proposals, and conducting training modules/sessions. The fellow will have a Ph.D. in hand (or should defend and join the lab by August 2016). The ideal candidate would have extensive experience (e.g. 4-5 years of graduate studies) developing research-quality *immersive* virtual reality applications, preferably in Unity3D, involving commercial head-mounted displays and wide-area tracking systems. Experience incorporating embodied conversational agents (e.g., 3D models, animation, and artificial intelligence) into social applications is desirable, as is the ability to network together multiple virtual reality systems into collaborative virtual environments. An understanding of experimental methods and statistical skills are a plus. 

Salary is competitive. The fellowship is for one year, with the opportunity to renew for a second year. For more details about the position, please contact Sri Kalyanaraman at: sri@jou.ufl.edu.