Detailed information
Work location : Hokkaido district - Hokkaido
Date of publication : 2025/06/24
Position for Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Autonomous Systems Engineering, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
D125061885
Hokkaido University
Research field : Informatics - Intelligent informatics
Associate Professor : Regular employee - Tenured - Non-tenure track - Probationary period present
Job description
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Background of the recruitment and description of the project
Our school's philosophy of research and education is to contribute to the development of society and to create a knowledge-based society for the next generation. By creating and adopting the principles of information science, we aim to train engineers who have a broad and deep knowledge of this field, as well as an international sense. In this way we will cultivate highly creative scientists who independently carry out significant research and development.
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Work content and job description
Duties in education and fields:
(Immediately after hiring) Lectures, seminar, experiments, and exercise courses related to computer science and information technology (see Appendix 1). Administrative tasks of the faculty, graduate school, and undergraduate school.
(Scope of change) Duties as determined by the University.
Appendix
1.The successful applicant will partly or fully give the lectures listed below, for which the Laboratory of Autonomous Systems Engineering is responsible.
(1)Subjects in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology:
Autonomous Systems Engineering, Laboratory seminar, and others
(2)Subjects in the School of Engineering:
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, Computer Programming II, Experiment in Computer Science and Information Technology I, Exercise in Technical English, and others.
(3)Subjects in the general education: Statistics, The World of Science and Technology and others.
2.The Laboratory of Autonomous Systems Engineering provides education and research in a wide range of information technologies related to the understanding of biological intelligence and the design and implementation of systems that can be implemented in society, based on the technologies of artificial intelligence and artificial life. Specifically, the research and development of machine learning methods such as deep learning, combinatorial optimization, and other information technologies applied to various fields is covered. The research and development of flexible and robust autonomous distributed systems, such as multi-agent systems inspired by swarm intelligence. -
Assigned department
Existing departments
(Immediately after hiring) Laboratory of Autonomous Systems Engineering, Research Group of Synergetic Information Engineering, Division of Computer Science and Information Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University. (Scope of change) Location as determined by the University
Job type
- Associate Professor
Research field
- Informatics - Intelligent informatics
Wages
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Annual Salary : 7 million yen ~ 10 million yen
National University Corporation Hokkaido University Salary Regulations for Faculty Subject To Annual Salary System
Working hours
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Working hours :08:30-17:00
Break time :12:15-13:00
Holidays : Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and year-end and New Year holidays (12/29 - 1/3)
Overtime and other explanations : Discretionary labor system* for professional work based on the employee’s agreement or Fixed working hours system
* The working hours for a day is deemed as 7 hours and 45 minutes.
Application requirements
Qualifications
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Education and Degree Requirements
Ph.D. / Doctor
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Description
(1)Applicant should have a doctoral degree or Ph.D.
(2)Applicant should have the ability to provide instruction in subjects described in “Duties in education” both in Japanese and English.
(3)Applicant should have the ability to undertake administrative tasks for the faculty, graduate school, and undergraduate school in Japanese.
Employment Type
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Regular employee
Contract period
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Tenured - Non-tenure track
Probationary period present
Trial period 3 month.
Work location
- 060-0814 Hokkaido Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo
Compensation
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Various systems
Pay increase system : available
Retirement allowances : available
Transportation expenses : available
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Insurance
Employees' Health Insurance : available(Mutual Association of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Employees' Pension Insurance : available
Worker's accident insurance : available
Employment insurance : available
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Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace
Smoking in designated areas only
Application Considerations
Number of hired
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Job content supplemental explanation
Scheduled stating date of employment: January 1st, 2026, or later
1 person(s)
Hiring date : 2026/01/01
Starting date : 2026/01/01
Application period
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2025/06/24~2025/08/29 Deadline for receipt
Application method
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Attached documents
Application Form : Online Submission(1)CV with recent photo, including contact details (address, phone, and e-mail), academic record, job experience, and international society activity;
Remark:
・Applicant who has been employed by Hokkaido University from April 1, 2013
(any position, including Part-time Lecture, TA, TF, RA and Short-term Support
Assistant, etc.) should provide full details of your employment history.Achievements and Activities : Online Submission(2)List of academic accomplishments
Please make a list in reverse chronological order
1.Reviewed journal articles (e.g., Articles published in academic journal)
2.Reviewed conference papers (e.g., Papers in the proceedings)
3.Survey articles
4.Book (including coauthor)
5.Keynote/invited talks
6.Other papers/presentations
7.Patents
8.Awards
9.Grants (Please add information whether the applicant is principal investigator of the grant or not)
10.Other accomplishments (e.g., Joint research with private company or public organization, free software)
Remarks:
・For papers, please underline the applicant's name. Additionally, if there is a
corresponding author (responsible author), place a circle or bullet before their name.
・For papers, it is permissible to include impact factor (IF) and/or the number of citations, if needed.
・For patents and similar contributions, please underline the applicant's name, and for key contributors, place a circle or bullet before their name.Other online application forms
(3)5 selected publications and their abstracts within 100 words (in English or Japanese).
(4)Summary of the applicant's research history and achievements within 1 page (in English or Japanese).
(5)Summary of the applicant's teaching history and future plan for education within 1 page (in English or Japanese).
(6)Summary of the applicant’s future research plan within 1 page (in English or Japanese).
(7)The names of two references for the applicant, showing his/her name, institution, position, telephone number, and e-mail address.
How to submit the above application documents (WEB Application Only):
Please submit the application documents by making a single ZIP file and uploading through the JREC-IN portal. The ZIP file should contain PDF files of (1) – (7) and be named “Your Name.zip”. -
Return of application documents
We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.
URL of this job posting
Selection / Notification of result
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Selection
Please note that an interview may be conducted if necessary. In that event, the applicant is responsible for any travel expenses.
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Notification of result
The faculty member in charge will notify the successful candidate by phone or e-mail.
Contact details
Hokkaido University
Division of Computer Science and Information Technology
Atsuyoshi Nakamura
0117066945
csit-kobo-2025(at)elms.hokudai.ac.jp
* Please change (at) to @ and send it.
Please contact us by e-mail.
Notes
At Hokkaido University, we are actively promoting both education and research activities while relying on diverse human resources and gender equality. Therefore, we explicitly invite women qualified in research field to apply. We are also actively supporting a satisfying work-life-balance and are thus creating ideal environments for people to reach their full potentials.
