December 17, 2023
Junichi Murata, Dean,
Faculty of Information Scienceand Electrical Engineering,
Open Position for Associate Professor (Tenure Track),
Department of Informatics,
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University, Japan
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Open Position: Associate Professor (5-year tenure track)2.

Affiliation: Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information Science and ElectricalEngineering, Kyushu University ( https://www.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e/ )3.

Workplace: Kyushu University Ito Campus, 744 Moto’oka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.

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Area of Expertise: Foundations of Computer Science (including but not limited to: data structure andalgorithms, automata and formal language theory, complexity theory, data compression), Applied Mathematics (including but not limited to: discrete mathematics, combinatorics).

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Key Responsibilities: Research and education on the topics shown in Item 4. Education forgraduate students in the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,and for undergraduate students at the Informatics Course in the Department of Physics, andundergraduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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Contract: This is a 5-year tenure-track position: The successful candidate will be reviewed inthe third year (the midterm review) and in the fifth year (the final review). If approved after thefinal review, the candidate will obtain a tenured position at the end of the fifth year.

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Recruitment Requirements:(1) A PhD degree or equivalent;(2) Enthusiasm in teaching and research in the aforementioned field(s);(3) Ability to teach and supervise students in English.

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Start Date: April 2024 or later.

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Required Documents:(1) Curriculum Vitae including a profile photo of the candidate, education after high school,
work experience, academic society memberships, social activities, awards, and otherparticularly notable entries.
Applicants who received disciplinary action in the past for sexual violence and/or sexual
harassment against students have to write its nature and its specific reasons. False
statements may result in cancellation of employment or disciplinary action.
(2) List of Publications: Categorize them based on the types of publications such as peerreviewed journal papers, refereed papers in the proceedings of international conferences,tutorial papers, books, invited talks, patents, etc. Applicants are strongly recommended
to provide their h-index, a copy of the front page of their Google Scholar profile, and otherstatistics (e.g. impact factors, citation indices) of their work. As for papers and patents,
show all the authors' names in the order as appeared in the articles/documents.

(3) Copies of 5 selected papers authored by the candidate.
(4) Summary of the past and current research of the candidate (around 1000 words).
(5) Statement for education and research vision (around 1000 words).
(6) The candidate who belongs to a university must include a track record of securing
research funding. Please include the name of the funding, the title of the project, theinformation if you are the principal investigator or co-investigator, your affiliation, andthe amount of the funding. The candidate who belongs to an industry must include thedetails of the research projects involved.
(7) The names, affiliations and contact details of two referees.
10. Application Deadline: January 22, 2024 (JST).
11. Application Submission: Send an email to the email address shown in Item “16. Inquiries andContact” for the upload link. The documents must be merged into a single PDF with all thefonts embedded, and then be submitted via the provided upload link.
12. Interview: Selected candidates will be asked to have an in-person or online interview. Kyushu
University does not cover the travel expenses.
13. Working Conditions:(1) Working Hours, Break Time, and Overtime Work: 7 hours and 45 minutes per day
based on the discretionary labor system for professional work.
(2) Holidays: Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and days from December 29 to January3.
(3) Salary: Annual salary system. The base annual salary is determined based onprofessional experience, job responsibilities and other relevant factors along with theUniversity’s related regulations.
(4) Insurances covered: Employment insurance, industrial injury insurance, healthinsurance, and employee pension.
14. Notes:(1) In line with the Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society (Act No. 78 of 1999),
Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer: http://danjyo.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
(2) Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer and follows the principle ofBasic Act for Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 84 of 1970), Act on Employment
Promotion etc. of Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 1960, revised in 2013) andAct on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 65of 2013).
(3) The system of employment of faculty members with accompanying spouse has been
implemented at Kyushu University since July 2017.
(4) Kyushu University prohibits smoking on the premises to avoid exposure ofenvironmental tobacco smoke.
(5) Personal information included in the submitted documents will not be used forpurposes other than screening.
15. Inquiries and Contact:
Shunsuke Inenaga(phone: +81-92-802-3790, email: inenaga.shunsuke.380@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Professor, Department of Informatics,
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University