Chair of Junior Professor in Ai

**About the position**

**Contract type**:_Chaire de Professeur Junior_**_[1]_**_. _Successful applicants will first be hired on a ‘CDD de projet’ contract and tenure will occur at IMT Professor level. _
- Location: IMT Atlantique, Brest campus_
- Partners: Ifremer, Inria, _

**Thematic and research challenges**

**Eco-system and context**:
IMT Atlantique internationally recognized for the quality of its research, is a leading technological university ranked in the three main international rankings (THE, SHANGHAI, QS).

IMT Atlantique has privileged relationships with major industrial national and international partners, as well as a dense network of SME, start-ups and innovation networks. With 290 permanent faculty members, 2000 students among which 300 PhD students, IMT Atlantique produces every year 1000 publications and raises 18M€ of research funding.

The position is opened on the Brest campus of IMT Atlantique within the Mathematical and Electrical Engineering Department (MEE) and attached to the CNRS Research Unit Lab-STICC and Odyssey Inria team in the context of high-impact research initiatives such as ERC STUOD, AI Chair OceaniX as well as EU projects Edito Model Lab and AI4PEX.

**Education**:
The education program of IMT Atlantique has been recognized as amongst the most innovative in French High Education and Research and offers large possibilities of developing innovative engineering curriculum and educational approach.

**Expected competences**:
The chair holder will actively engage in Open Science including publishing in Open Access journals, publishing experimental data as well as developing open data challenges.

**Indicators for monitoring the deployment of the project and the methodology for their monitoring.**

The Chair holder will update his or her scientific strategy and success indicators (publications, prizes and awards, financial management, recruitments, valorization of research results) on a yearly basis. A formalized interview, containing follow-up indicators, will be carried out annually with a scientific manager in order to follow the evolution of the work and the concordance of the results with the targeted goals. The interview will conclude with the definition of improvement actions concerning the scientific strategy and the good management of human and financial resources. Intermediate meetings may be agreed upon if necessary.

**Success indicators at the end of the tenure track period**
- Scientific advising: 5 (co)-advised PhDs (defended or ongoing)
- Scientific production:

- 10 publications in major international scientific journals, top-tier international ML conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, AISTATS) and/or patents.
- 15-20 presentations in international conferences at the interface of AI and OAC sciences (e.g., EGU, AGU, Climate Informatics, ML4PS )
- Individual excellence: submission of an ERC starting grant, or ANR JCJC project
- Participation and active contribution to local, national and international research animation (e.g., French GDRs Omer and “Défis Théoriques pour le Climat”)
- Partnership dynamics
- Submission of collaborative projects (at European or national level)
- Development of a research collaboration with international partnerships
- Teaching dynamics: Development/Management of a course, development of online teaching resources

[1] As defined by Article L952-6-2 of the French Education Code

**Expected competences**:
The chair holder will actively engage in Open Science including publishing in Open Access journals, publishing experimental data as well as developing open data challenges.

**Indicators for monitoring the deployment of the project and the methodology for their monitoring.**

The Chair holder will update his or her scientific strategy and success indicators (publications, prizes and awards, financial management, recruitments, valorization of research results) on a yearly basis. A formalized interview, containing follow-up indicators, will be carried out annually with a scientific manager in order to follow the evolution of the work and the concordance of the results with the targeted goals. The interview will conclude with the definition of improvement actions concerning the scientific strategy and the good management of human and financial resources. Intermediate meetings may be agreed upon if necessary.

**Success indicators at the end of the tenure track period**
- Scientific advising: 5 (co)-advised PhDs (defended or ongoing)
- Scientific production:

- 10 publications in major international scientific journals, top-tier international ML conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, AISTATS) and/or patents.
- 15-20 presentations in international conferences at the interface of AI and OAC sciences (e.g., EGU, AGU, Climate Informatics, ML4PS )
- Individual excellence: submission of an ERC starting grant, or ANR JCJC project
- Participation and active contribution to local, national and international research animation (e.g., French GDRs Omer a