The University of Warwick is one of the founding partners in New York's recently announced Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP).

http://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/center-for-urban-science-progress.html

CUSP is an applied sciences institute focused on creating new transdisciplinary solutions for ‘smart urban environments’.

At full strength, CUSP will house 30 faculty, 400 Master’s students, 100 PhD students and 30 post-docs, researching areas including intelligent transportation, managing urban services and infrastructure, public safety and security, health informatics, and efficient, responsive and resilient buildings.

The University of Warwick is seeking to make several appointments in support of this initiative.

We welcome interest from Computer Science researchers with excellent research track records in areas including:

Information Analytics;
Sensors and Mobile Infrastructures;
Data Visualization;
Security and Surveillance;
Real-time video processing;
Adaptive control and machine learning;
The Internet of Things.

Other research areas with clear application to smart cities and urban science will also be considered.

You will play a leading role in the development and direction of the research, administration and teaching in the Department of Computer Science at Warwick. You will have particular responsibility for the University of Warwick's commitment to the Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in New York.

You will have a PhD or equivalent in Computer Science or a discipline related to smart urban environments, and you will have an excellent track record of research in this area. You must be able to demonstrate an ability to secure funded research grants. You will have interdisciplinary interests with industrial research experience. Although you will be based at the University of Warwick in the UK, you must be prepared to make regular visits to New York for teaching and research purposes. You will also be required to work with industry partners, and develop and lead industry/university research projects as part of the CUSP research program.

Please quote job vacancy reference number 71909-052.

Closing Date: 2 July 2012

Salary Negotiable

More details can be found here.