[Proof Complexity] Tenure-track assistant professorship in foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning

[Jakob Nordström]

Dear colleagues,

I would be most grateful for any assistance in spreading the information below regarding a tenure-track assistant professorship in the foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning at Lund University.

Best regards,
Jakob Nordstrom

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Tenure-track assistant professorship in foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning (application deadline Jan 26)

The Department of Computer Science at Lund University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning.

The assistant professor will be working at the Department of Computer Science, where research into the foundations of computer science is conducted by professors Susanna de Rezende and Jakob Nordstrom. Jakob Nordstrom leads the research group Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/miao-group), which is also active at the University of Copenhagen. The research has a unique profile in that it spans a wide range of questions from the theoretical, mathematical foundations of efficient computation all the way to state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This creates a very special environment, where the research projects do not only go deep into different theoretical and applied topics, but where different lines of research cross-fertilise each other and unexpected and exciting synergies often arise.

This position focuses on algorithms for foundational problems within logic, automated reasoning, and combinatorial optimization. This includes design and implementation of algorithms for computational problems within Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, constraint programming, mixed integer linear programming, and/or satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solving. In addition to algorithm construction, another topic of interest is to develop a scientific understanding of the practical performance of automated reasoning algorithms, and to investigate relations between empirical observations and theoretical results in algorithm analysis and computational complexity theory. Yet another related area concerns methods of ensuring that algorithms compute provably correct results, which can be used to develop trustworthy solvers for automated reasoning and combinatorial optimization.

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. Lund Technical College (LTH) forms the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, where research of the highest international standard is conducted.

The Department of Computer Science at LTH is a partner in the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), which is Sweden's largest ever individual research program and addresses research on artificial intelligence broadly construed, and also in the ELLIIT Excellence Centre focused on basic and applied research in information technologies. Furthermore, there are extensive collaborations across the Oresund Bridge with the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre at the University of Copenhagen as well as with the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

The application deadline is January 26, 2024. See http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/AsstProf-Lund-240126.html for more information and instructions how to apply. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be sent to jakob.nordstrom at cs.lth.se.


Jakob Nordström, Professor
University of Copenhagen and Lund University
Phone: +46 70 742 21 98
http://www.jakobnordstrom.se