PHD STUDENTS IN THE AREA SOCIAL COMPUTING RESPONSIBILITIES For a number of research and industry project, we need motivated PhD students in the Area Social Computing, who will have an opportunity to complete a PhD degree in Computer Science at Graz Technical University. QUALIFICATIONS • Completed University Diploma/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Development and Economy, Telematics or Technical Mathematics (mandatory) • Prior knowledge in Social Media Analysis, Web Science, Recommender Systems, Social Semantic Web, Social Network Analysis, Science 2.0, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval (highly desirable) • Experience in object oriented programming in Java, with databases (preferably MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL) (mandatory) • Experience with frontend technologies (XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5) (highly desirable) • Experience with Matlab/Octave, R, Python, PHP, Weka, Apache Solr (highly desirable) • Team work and self-reliance (mandatory) • Fluent English (mandatory) INTEREST IN • Social Semantic Systems, Analysis of Social Media and Interactions in the Social Web, Social Network Analysis, Recommender Systems, Science 2.0, Web Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning WE OFFER • an opportunity to obtain a PhD degree in Computer Science at Graz University of Technology • young, dynamic, creative team • informal and stimulating working environment • on the job training, professional and personal development • excellent career prospects, both scientific and technical career paths are possible • compensation of 2,065 per month and up, depending on your education and work experience We are looking forward to your application. Please email it to us together with relevant attachments at career@know-center.at -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Head of the Social Computing Research Group @Know-Center Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 13, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at Tel: +43 316 873 30840 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info Have an interesting EU-Project on User Modeling & Personalization? Present your Project at UMAP2014: http://umap2014.cs.aau.dk/ -------------------------------------------------------