Full-Time Faculty Position in EE/CS (Computer Vision) (Advert Reference Code: EE-CS-2018)

The Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) at Sabancı University invites applications for a full-time Assistant or Associate Professor position in the field of Computer Vision. Research areas of interest range across the whole spectrum in computer vision, in particular, visual object tracking and recognition, 3D reconstruction, visual modeling, image and video understanding, video analytics and visual data mining, as well as other imaging modalities and processing. Application domains of interest include, but are not limited to defense, security, robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, biomedical imaging and biometrics.

The candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with a strong research and publication record in the general area of computer vision. Applications are sought at Assistant or Associate Professor levels.

Candidates who can bring new research perspectives to FENS, and also demonstrate the potential to collaborate with existing FENS faculty members will be preferred.

Sabanci University, a privately funded premier academic institution, started instruction in the 1999-2000 academic year in its new state-of-the-art campus located in suburban Istanbul. The University offers 12 undergraduate programs and 23 graduate programs in three faculties (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Management). The University aims at establishing a high standard of academic excellence and a research-oriented atmosphere both for its faculty and for its students, while nurturing productive relationships particularly with the industries in the region which constitute the industrial heartland of Turkey. The medium of instruction is English.

Sabanci University was ranked as the best University according to the "University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Index" compiled by the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology since 2015, and ranked 2nd in 2013 and 2014. It is also the first Turkish private university to be included in the top 200 (182nd place) of the Times Higher Education (THE) 2014 Rankings and is ranked 13th among the universities under 50 years old worldwide.

Applicants are invited to submit their application (CV, research and teaching statements, representative publications and two letters of references) at http://sucrm.sabanciuniv.edu/academiccv/application.php?advertcode=EE-CS-2018 (Reference Code:EE-CS-2018)

For full consideration, applications should be received until October 31, 2018. The positions have a desired start date of January 2019.