The Big Data Research Center, Henan University

Position ID:	Henan University-The Big Data Research Center-POSTDOC
Position Title: 	Postdoctoral Fellow
Position Location:	KaiFeng, Henan, China
Subject Area: 	Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition
Application Deadline:	(until December 31st, 2019)

Position Description
Three postdoctoral positions are immediately available at the research group (The Big Data Research Center) of Prof. Chongsheng Zhang and Prof. George Almpanidis at Henan University of China. 

Requirements/Qualifications
1. The successful candidates should hold a PhD degree in machine learning/data mining, or computer vision/pattern recognition, or other related fields. 

2. At the time of appointment, the applicants must graduate within the last 2 years and should be no more than 35 years old in age.

3. The applicant should have good publication records in the above-mentioned fields.

4. Programming skills and knowledge of deep learning frameworks (tensorflow, pytorch) would be appreciated, but not mandatory.

Duration of the contract
The duration of the contract is 36 months, which can be extended up to 48 months.

Salary
a) The monthly income of the Postdoctoral researcher is around 18,000 RMB (2300 EUR at the current exchange rate) before tax (the tax ratio is about 3%-10%), paid by the University. Accommodation will be provided by the University. 

b) Additionally, the University will provide a total of 100,000 RMB as the candidate’s research funding, which can be used for research purposes such as conferences, meetings, etc. 

About KaiFeng and Henan University
KaiFeng is a historical city (capital of Song Dynasty) and a famous tourist destination, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng. Henan University has a history of 107 years, and has been selected as the “Double First Class” University by the Ministry of Education of China, see http://en.henu.edu.cn/. 

How to apply

Applications are only accepted via email. 

All the following documents must be sent to Prof. Chongsheng Zhang and Prof. George Almpanidis simultaneously, at chongsheng.zhang@yahoo.com and almpanidis@ieee.org, with the email subject “postdoc application”.
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•	A cover letter
•	Full CV and list of publications
•	Two reference letters. 

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Prof. Chongsheng Zhang and Prof. George Almpanidis via Email.