Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in AI and Games

The Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media wishes to appoint a permanent Lecturer in AI and Computer Games.

De Montfort University (DMU) is a vibrant, ambitious institution. DMU achieved a TEF Gold ranking for its teaching quality and prestigious awards for its #DMUGlobal initiative. Located within Leicester’s cosmopolitan city centre DMU’s £136 million campus transformation is creating the modern, inspiring environments our students and staff deserve.

Faculty / Directorate

The School of Computer Science and Informatics is based within the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media. It offers a wide range of courses to other undergraduates and postgraduates in line with emergent demand and the nature of these fast-moving, competitive disciplines. We have a solid track record of ground-breaking research, and in REF2021, nearly 2/3 of the School’s research output was considered to be world-leading or internationally excellent. Computer Science at DMU is ranked 201-300 worldwide in the Shanghai Ranking and 301-400 in the THES World University Rankings due to the international nature and high relevance of its research. Alongside the university as a whole, we have huge ambitions for the future in terms of our offering to students and the quality and scale of our research.

The Artificial Intelligence research area is concerned with one of the three research strands of the School and has contributed some of the most cited publications for the REF2021. The AI group has a strong track record in computational intelligence, data science and its applications to transportation, vision, medicine and game AI. The institute is a world pioneer in fuzzy sets, grey systems, and evolutionary computing.

Role

Excellent teaching is at the heart of our commitment to professional, creative and vocational education. Our passionate and enthusiastic lecturers have earned 18 National Teaching Fellowships, making DMU one of the top universities in the UK on this measure of teaching excellence. It is our goal to become the leading provider of professional and creative education with research that pushes boundaries and improves lives. We wish to attract more talented, professional and creative academics to our campus.

Ideal Candidate

Applicants will be expected to teach modules on courses in the Artificial Intelligence and Games areas. You will be expected to lead, develop and redesign modules to update as required. Your research is expected to contribute to the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI).

To discuss teaching aspects of the role, please get in touch with Mrs Joanne Bacon, Subject Group Leader for Games, Maths, and Intelligent Systems (joa@dmu.ac.uk).

For research, please contact Prof Daniela Romano, Research Institute director (daniela.romano@dmu.ac.uk).

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