National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Technologies

School of Information Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), founded in 1958 as the only university under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), offers advanced science and technology programs, unique management studies, and well-tailored disciplines in humanities. Many USTC alumni have become world leaders in academia and industry. For more information about USTC, please go tohttp://en.ustc.edu.cn.

National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Technologies in the School of Information Science and Technology of USTC, established recently and approved by National Development and Reform Commission of China, invites applications and nominations for a number of Chair Professor Positions in broad areas of speech and language science and technology, including but not limited to:

-Audio and acoustic signal processing

-Human speech production and perception

-Speech/audio coding

-Multimodal human-computer interaction

-Automatic speech recognition

-Speech synthesis and enhancement

-Automatic speaker recognition and spoken language identification

-Spoken language processing and understanding

-Spoken language translation

-Spoken information extraction/retrieval

-Computer aided language learning

-Multilingual spoken language processing

Candidate must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field of research with good communication skills and a track record for quality teaching and research. USTC offers a competitive compensation package for the Chair Professor Positions.

Applicants and nominators should submit a cover letter, a detailed curriculum vitae of the candidate including a list of publications, as well as the names, addresses (regular mail and email), and phone numbers of five references to:

Ms. Ashley Fan (fansh@ustc.edu.cn)
School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China,
443 Huangshan Road, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China, 230027