Professor in Hard Real-Time Embedded AI for Autonomous Vehicles

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Professor in Hard Real-Time Embedded AI for Autonomous Vehicles

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• In this position, you expand the scope of PSI-EAVISE towards hard real-time embedded artificial intelligence, with particular attention to the area of sensing for autonomous vehicles. Within the EAVISE research group at campus De Nayer, specialized in industrial applications of state-of-the-art image and audio processing techniques and artificial intelligence, we see an increasing demand from industry for hard real-time solutions. In many industrial applications such as inspection and production, maximum cycle times must be effectively guaranteed. Also in safety-critical applications such as visual systems that guarantee the safety of people, a guaranteed reaction speed is of prime importance. Intelligent vehicles offer an obvious application domain of hard real-time sensing, where it must be ensured that the interpretation of sensor signals must be available within a predefined time, without sacrificing accuracy. This is the case for a broad range of solutions, from driver assistance systems for passenger cars to fully self-driving cars, but certainly also for autonomous robots and drones, vessels and other transportation systems.
• In terms of functional performance, the state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms are certainly able to handle many industrial questions, but the missing link is often the translation of these complex algorithms into a hard real-time framework on specific embedded hardware with limited resources (microcontroller, ASIC, FPGA, embedded GPU). This will require an extension of the current research at EAVISE towards embedded and hardware research. This vacancy focuses on hardware-informed embedded software, rather than on the development of hardware itself. Specific research topics this vacancy targets include hardware-aware optimization of AI algorithms, embedded hardware-software co-optimization and compilers for custom AI accelerators.
• You engage in targeted scientific research, resulting in PhD’s and publications that meet international standards and lead to broad international recognition.
• You develop an international level research program in hard real-time embedded AI, applied in particular to sensing for autonomous vehicles.
• You support or initiate a network of companies through the valorisation of research results and by delivering industrial services, aimed at strengthening industrial innovation. You also give the necessary attention to the social valorisation of your research results.
• As part of your research programme, you develop international partnerships, within the academic world as well as with industrial partners.
• You acquire competitive funding, both project-based government funding as well as industrial funding.

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RequirementsResearch Field Engineering Education Level Master Degree or equivalentLanguages ENGLISH Level GoodAdditional InformationBenefitsWe offer full-time employment in an intellectually challenging environment.KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research. Our university is highly focused on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and strives for international excellence. In this regard, the university actively works together with research partners in Belgium and abroad and provides its students with an academic education that is based on high-quality scientific research.You will work at the KU Leuven De Nayer Campus, an academic campus located about 45 km from Leuven and centred on technology and industry focused research and education. Other campuses will be able to make use of your expertise in teaching.Depending on your record and qualifications, you will be appointed to or tenured in one of the grades of the senior academic staff: assistant professor, associate professor, professor or full professor. In principle, junior researchers are appointed as assistant professor on the tenure track for a period of 5 years. At the end of this period and a positive evaluation, they are permanently appointed (or tenured) as associate professor.To facilitate scientific integration and research in the first phase, a research position equivalent to a PhD fellowship for 4 years is made available. If you have no other substantial funding available, you can also apply for a start-up grant of EUR 100,000, on the condition that you are appointed for at least 50%.KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration & administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching, …Eligibility criteria

• You have a degree in engineering or an equivalent degree, and a PhD where the subject of your doctoral thesis relates to the research domain.
• You have a strong research track record in the discipline, evidenced by your publications or by your research experience in industry. You have the ambition to contribute to the valorisation of research in industry and in society. International experience is an important advantage.
• You have verifiable qualities related to academic education. Teaching experience is an advantage.
• You possess organisational skills and have a cooperative attitude. You also possess leadership competencies in a university or industry context.
• A good command of English is required. KU Leuven provides courses in academic English.

The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of your employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in meetings and to acquire the level of Dutch that is required for tenure.
Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch resp. English to the required standard.Selection processFor more information on the contents of the job, please contact:* Prof. dr. ir. Georges Gielen, departmental chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, tel.: +32 16 32 40 76, email: or * Prof. dr. ir. Raf Dewil, campus chair of the De Nayer Campus, tel.: +32 15 68 82 29, email: .
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Add to your application following documents in English (more information is available on the KU Leuven job site):- your biosketch in which you indicate your added value as an academic for research, education and service to society of your past career and of your future activities (maximum 2 pages);- a file on your five most important publications or realizations;- an extensive cv including a full publication list and if applicable a portfolio of your architectural projects;- your research plan with focus on the development of your research line and research team in relation with the colleague-researchers of the entity of employment (maximum 4 pages);- your vision on academic education and its organization (maximum 2 pages);- your contribution to society by outreach and public communication on science and technology, internal representation in boards and councils and service activities directly in relation to your developed expertise (maximum 1 page);- your vision on … For more information seeWork Location(s)Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute KU Leuven Country Belgium State/Province Antwerpen City Sint-Katelijne-Waver Postal Code 2860 Street Sint-Katelijne-WaverWhere to apply WebsiteContact State/ProvinceSint-Katelijne-Waver CityAntwerpen StreetSint-Katelijne-Waver Postal Code2860STATUS: EXPIRED

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Wavre-Sainte-Catherine, Anvers

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Sat, 01 Jun 2024 06:37:14 GMT

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