[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc position at the University of Twente, The Netherlands - Ultra fast crawling for real-time webscale market intelligence platform

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Subject: [DMANET] Postdoc position at the University of Twente, The 
Netherlands - Ultra fast crawling for real-time webscale market 
intelligence platform
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:27:14 +0000
From: Nelly Litvak <n.litvak at utwente.nl>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de <dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de>

Fully funded postdoc position at the Mathematics of Operations Research 
group at the University of Twente, The Netherlands 
(https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/mor/) More information can be found 
here: 
https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/!/1038438/postdoc-weblnsight

PROJECT
Ultra fast crawling for real-time webscale market intelligence platform 
(WebInsight)

JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a new postdoc to appoint for two years at the 
Mathematics of Operations Research group at the University of Twente, 
The Netherrlands (https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/mor/) in the project 
`WebInsight’; funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the 
European Commission. The project is a collaboration between several 
companies based in France and the University of Twente.
Together with our industrial partners, we aim to deliver high-value 
analysis of World-Wide-Web (WWW) content. The project focuses on the 
introduction of predictive elements in web crawling, scoring websites & 
pages through continuous processing of data for semantic 
characterization.  As a postdoc, you will play an important part in the 
creation of scoring methods that will be usable in the prioritization of 
the crawling process. This research involves a combination of 
mathematical modeling, statistics, network science, and machine 
learning. We expect you to design novel scoring functions, and then 
prototype, evaluate and test them on the web data obtained from the 
industrial partners.
The MOR group is a part of the Digital Society Institute and the Data 
Science network at the University of Twente. You will benefit from our 
broad national and international network of academic contacts and 
research programs of the MOR group and the WebInsight consortium.

YOUR PROFILE
• You are a highly motivated and enthusiastic researcher (F/M); • You 
have a PhD Degree in the field of Mathematics, Computer Science, Data 
Science, Physics, or related fields; • You have excellent mathematical 
skills, programming skills and are able (willing to learn) to work with 
(very) large datasets; • You are highly motivated to work in 
interdisciplinary environment and are willing to expand your horizon in 
network science, theory of random graphs, machine learning, and 
applications in web crawling applications by interacting with partners 
in the WebInsight consortium; • You are an independent and original 
thinker with a creative mindset; • You have good team spirit and like to 
work in an internationally oriented environment; • You are fluent in 
English.

INFORMATION AND APPLICATION
Please contact prof.dr. N.V. Litvak (n.v.litvak at utwente.nl) if you have 
any questions.

Interested? Applications, including a CV and motivation should be 
uploaded through the link below. The deadline for the application is 
November 8th. 2019:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/!/1038438/postdoc-weblnsight

OUR OFFER
You will be appointed for two years within a very stimulating scientific 
environment. The university offers a dynamic ecosystem with enthusiastic 
colleagues.
• Salary and conditions are in accordance with the collective labour 
agreement for Dutch universities (CAO- NU); • You will receive a salary 
between €3.255,- and €4.274,- gross per month, depending on your work 
experience; • Excellent benefits including a holiday allowance of 8% of 
the gross annual salary, a year-end bonus of 8.3% and a solid pension 
scheme; • Minimum of 29 leave days in case of full-time employment; • We 
provide excellent mentorship and a stimulating research environment to 
accelerate your further professional and personal growth; • The 
University of Twente is situated on a green and lively campus with lots 
of facilities for sports and other extracurricular activities.

THE ORGANIZATION
The University of Twente. We stand for life sciences and technology. 
High tech and human touch. Education and research that matter. New 
technology which leads change, innovation and progress in society. The 
University of Twente is the only campus university of the Netherlands; 
divided over five faculties we provide more than fifty educational 
programmes. We have a strong focus on personal development and talented 
researchers are given scope for carrying out groundbreaking research. We 
are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We 
do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national 
origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability 
status. Because of our diversity values we do particularly support women 
to apply.
The faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science 
(EEMCS) comprises three disciplines that shape Information and 
Communication Technology. ICT is more than communication. In almost 
every product we use mathematics, electronics and computer technology 
and ICT now contributes to all of societies' activities. The faculty 
works together intensively with industrial partners and researchers in 
the Netherlands and abroad and conducts extensive research for external 
commissioning parties and funders. The research which enjoys a high 
profile both at home and internationally, has been accommodated in the 
multidisciplinary research institutes: Mesa+ Institute, TechMed Centra 
and Digital Society Institute.