Director and Chief Scientific Officer

Job description

Description The Johns Hopkins University [JHU] Human Language Technology Center of Excellence [HLTCOE] is a world-class research organization that addresses a unique set of exciting challenge problems to advance the state of the art in human language technologies. The JHU HLTCOE seeks a highly respected, peer-recognized, leading researcher to serve as its Director and Chief Scientific Officer. Reporting to the School of Engineering’s vice dean for research, the director is charged with leading the research activities of the HLTCOE to ensure it both maintains its leadership position and aligns with the needs of its government sponsor. This includes working collaboratively with HLTCOE researchers to extend their significant record of technical accomplishments, setting strategic directions, and identifying, recruiting, and mentoring new research staff. HLTCOE researchers develop advanced algorithms for analyzing speech, text, and multimodal data in multiple languages, extracting useful information from massive amounts of text and speech over a wide range of languages and genres, striving to advance the state of the art in HLT in speech and text. Current problems focus on improvements...