香港科技大学智能晶片与系统研发中心招收博士后 ACCESS Post-doctoral Fellow

香港科技大学智能晶片与系统研发中心招收博士后

智能晶片与系统研发中心（ACCESS，AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems Limited）是香港科技大学（HKUST）全资拥有的一所研发中心，由香港科技大学、香港中文大学（CUHK）、斯坦福大学（Stanford）、伊利诺伊大学香槟分校（UIUC）和香港大学（HKU）等本地及海外大学的国际知名教授携手成立。研发中心紧密协调跨领域研究，专注于促进集成电路设计技术发展，推动以数据为本的崭新运算模式，设计高效能的人工智能硬件平台，以支撑一系列的人工智能应用。研发中心坐落于香港科技园，具备世界一流的办公和研发环境，並将容纳逾90名专职人员，包括具備学术和行业经验的高级研究人员、博士后研究员、研究生、访问教授和学者，以及管理人员等。

研发中心已经启动四项研究计划，探索四大技术领域前沿，包括突破硬件瓶颈的新兴技术、架构与异构系统整合、人工智能辅助电子设计自动化，以及硬件加速的人工智能应用。为了加强各个专业领域及它們之間的协同效应，ACCESS拥有一支由超过30位世界一流的知名专家组成的跨领域专家团队，成员包括三所本地大学和两所美国大学的知名教授，以及来自全球的世界顶尖专家，统筹和协调各个研究计划和研究项目，让硏究的发展方向和策略保持高度一致性，共同努力实现跨领域的技术突破。 研究计划和项目的负责教授会同时招收与指导ACCESS研究方向的博士生和研究硕士生，重点培养具有跨领域研究能力的科研人才。

ACCESS的研究计划包括前沿基础研究，并涵盖应用研究、技术原型研发和应用落地，促进及实现业界性的技术转移、合作研发，以及创业孵化。透过前述各项与国际专家和工业伙伴的紧密协作，ACCESS团队的研究人员将会在过程中获得跨领域技能的提升。另外，研发中心将与本地和国外合作大学举办工作室、专题培训等多种形式的活动，并邀请国际知名专家前来讲学与交流，让中心研究人员在拓展专业视野的同时，亦协助业界人士了解行业最新技术趋势、提升专业技能和扩大国际合作机会。ACCESS亦会与国际合作伙伴开展人员交流活动，为本科生提供实习机会，让他们参与最先进的研究项目工作。

ACCESS现向全球招募博士后研究员（Postdoctoral Fellow），于研发中心和港科大从事相关领域的研究和开发工作。欢迎相关专业的博士毕业生加盟，在国际知名专家带领的研究团队中从事先进半导体技术、集成电路、EDA和人工智能相关领域的跨学科合作研究，提升学术造诣、积累学术成果；同时，研发中心亦欢迎有志于进入集成电路设计和人工智能产业领域、毕业于相关专业或者来自其它专业并具备优秀的软硬件基础的博士毕业生加盟，与中心的知名专家和高级研究人员携手合作，共同努力实现跨领域的技术突破和产业落地。

各领域知名教授联合业界倾力打造，筑巢引凤，只待各路精英加盟！

如有兴趣申请博士后研究员职位，请将你的简历发送到Ms Janelle Yip的邮箱 (accessres@ust.hk)。ACCESS将很快开始处理所有申请并持续到职位被填补为止。只有入围者才会收到通知。 （申请人提供的信息将用于招聘和其他与就业相关的目的。）

关注更多ACCESS研究职位描述，敬请访问香港科技大学ACCESS招聘专页: hkustcareers.ust.hk/ai-chip-center-for-emerging-smart-systems。


Post-doctoral Fellow
AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems (ACCESS)

The AI Chip Centre for Emerging Smart Systems (ACCESS) is a multi-disciplinary center for advancing IC design and design automation technologies to enable novel data-centric computing paradigms supporting a wide range of AI applications. The research agenda in ACCESS is organized into four research programs, addressing four key technical areas, including 1) Enabling Technology for Emerging Computer Systems, 2) Architecture and Heterogeneous System Integration, 3) AI-Assisted EDA for AI Hardware, and 4) Hardware-Accelerated AI Applications.  Please visit hkustcareers.ust.hk/ai-chip-center-for-emerging-smart-systems for further details of the ACCESS.

Applications are invited for the following position:

Post-doctoral Fellow (Ref. No.: AC0002)

Responsibilities

The Post-doctoral Fellow is expected to be involved in the development of one or multiple research programs and projects in the Center/HKUST.  He/she will conduct research and development tasks that are assigned by the Principal and/or Senior Researchers.  He/she is required to station and work at the Hong Kong Science Park, with occasional business travels to the HKUST Clear Water Bay Campus and other Collaborating Universities of the Center when needed.

Requirements

• Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree preferably in electronics, electrical or computer engineering, computer science, or equivalent, with proven experience in integrated circuit design, design automation, or broadly microelectronics; those who possess equivalent academic qualifications in STEM-related disciplines would also be considered.  Specifically, R&D, as well as hand-on implementation experiences in the following area(s) with relevance to the design of AI accelerators are preferred (but not limited to):

• Neuromorphic computing, compute-in-memory (CIM), and relevant memory and storage systems;
• Non-volatile memory (CVM), silicon photonic devices, or 3D integration for acceleration of computing or communications;
• AI algorithm and architectural co-design; Neural network optimization for hardware implementation;
• ASIC design; FPGA prototyping;
• Design and implementation of chip/hardware accelerators for AI applications;
• Hardware-software co-design; Electronics design automation (such as modeling, simulation, physical design, logic/high-level synthesis, verification, testing, design for manufacturability, etc.)
  

• The ideal candidate should have strong research motivation and a sense of responsibility, the ability to multi-task and work independently, and a good command of written and spoken English.

Terms of Appointment

Starting salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Fringe benefits including annual leave, medical and dental benefits will be provided. (Duration: 1 year, renewable)

ACCESS is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

Application Procedure

For applications/nominations together with a full curriculum vitae indicating their current and expected salaries, please send it to the Secretary of the Search, Ms Janelle YIP (accessres@ust.hk). Review of applications will begin shortly and continue until the position is filled.  Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. *Please mark “PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL” and quote the position applied for and its reference number in the subject of the email.

(Information provided by applicants will be used for recruitment and other employment-related purposes.)