Lecturer A in Computer Science - closing date 1st October 2019. Full details.

Peter Wood has been awarded £250,000 as part of the UKRI GRCF Action against Stunting Hub, an £18.27 million project which aims to alleviate child stunting globally.

We are pleased to announce the availability of a PhD studentship in the area of Advanced Database Technologies funded by Neo4j, starting in October 2019. Neo4j are developers the popular Neo4j graph database system and an industry leader in graph data management. Full details

The next Logic Day organised by London Logic Forum will take place on Wed 17th July in room 151, Main Building, Birkbeck.

Congratulations to Hubie Chen whose three papers have been accepted by the prestigious ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data June 30 - July 5, 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

On Monday June 10th Magda Piatkowska gave an illuminating talk about how the data science is driving "disruption" within the supply side of the BBC i.e. journalists, newsroom etc. The talk is available here on youtube.

Graduate Teaching Assistant (3 years, part-time in conjunction with full-time PhD)

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Stelios Sotiriadis nominated for BBKSU Best Lecturer award

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Michael Zakharyaschev has been awarded £453,015 by EPSRC for his project quantMD: Ontology-Based Management for Many-Dimensional Quantitative Data with co-investigators Roman Kontchakov and Vladislav Ryzhikov. The project is in collaboration with the University of Liverpool.

We are now looking to appoint a lecturer in Computer Science to help develop our participation in the Institute of Coding (www.instituteofcoding.org), a new, exciting, national initiative that brings together over 60 universities, industry, training providers and professional bodies to address the UK’s digital skills gaps.

The IoC is developing accredited degree schemes and short courses aimed at professionals in a wide range of sectors, working to widen the participation of women, returners to work and hard to reach groups.

We are particularly seeking applicants with a growing reputation for research in Data Analytics/Data Science, who will also contribute to one or more of the interdisciplinary research themes of the Birkbeck Knowledge Lab (www.klab.bbk.ac.uk/research) and the Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics (www.bida.bbk.ac.uk).

Full details Closing date for applications is 11-Mar-2019 (Ref No 280)