Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Communication & Infomation Engineering Group

Applications are invited for faculty positions in Communication and Information Engineering at the Assistant/Associate Professor level. Applicants should have an earned PhD degree with clearly demonstrated strength or potential in research and must have a strong commitment to teaching. Appointees will be required to teach Communication, Information and Computer Engineering courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and general courses in the core Electrical & Computer Engineering undergraduate curriculum. In addition, supervision of graduate research students at both the Masters and Doctoral levels will be required.

Applicants with research experience in the following and related areas are specifically of interest to us:

  1. Embedded Systems: development of architectures, tools, and technologies for processing information; including computer architecture, embedded system design methodologies, specialised hardware designs, distributed operating systems, and programming methodologies;

  2. Computer Networks: protocols for wired and wireless networks, support for Quality-of-Service guarantees, smart space technologies, middleware, network management;

  3. Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems/Interfaces: for making interaction with computer-based information systems easier and more effective;

  4. Communication Systems and Technologies: modulation & coding (with emphasis on SS/CDMA), transmission aspects of multimedia signal processing (with emphasis on source-matched transmission), channel estimation & modelling, and wireless communications.

The Communication and Information Engineering Group currently has 31 faculty members in the four subgroups: Digital Communications, Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Computer Systems. Opportunities therefore exist for exceptionally strong applicants to establish credible and exciting research programmes as well as to collaborate with current faculty members in the target areas of interest.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has a 100-member teaching staff, 700 graduate students, and admits 430 beginning undergraduate students to the B.Eng. (Electrical) programme each year. It also offers a Computer Engineering programme at the undergraduate level, which admits 100 students each year. Excellent teaching and research facilities are available. Opportunities exist for collaborative research with other faculty departments, national research institutes and the university hospital. Substantial research funding is available from the University, Ministry of Education and the National Science and Technology Board of Singapore.

Starting rank and salary will depend on qualifications and experience. Initial appointment will be on a renewable three-year contract. Appointees will be eligible for tenure after serving two contracts. Subsidised accommodation and gratuity on completion of contract are available where applicable.

Please send applications to the Chairman of the Communication & Information Engineering Search Committee, c/o Mdm Oh Chew Ling, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Block E4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Fax: (65) 779 1103, email: eleohcl@nus.edu.sg. A completed application form should be accompanied by (i) a statement of the candidate's research interests indicating the scope of the research and its importance to basic technical and scientific knowledge or to specific technological needs; (ii) a statement of teaching interests; (iii) two representative publications or patents.

Please visit our web-site at http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg for links to information on the Department, the University, terms and conditions of service, and the application form.
Deadline for submission: 3 weeks upon advertising