<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br><br>I'm looking to recruit one assistant professor (3+2 years; RTD-A in Italian regulation) and several postdocs (up to 3 years each) starting as soon as September 1st, 2022 (or later) within my ERC StG project REGINDEX (<a href="https://pric.unive.it/projects/regindex">https://pric.unive.it/projects/regindex</a>). A PhD in Computer Science or Mathematics is preferred (but not strictly required) for the postdocs, while a PhD in Computer Science is required for the assistant professor. The research will take place in the scientific campus of Ca' Foscari University, Venice (<a href="https://apps.unive.it/mappe/sede/990025">https://apps.unive.it/mappe/sede/990025</a>). The salary is competitive: about 28k net per year for the postdocs (these positions are tax-free), and 25k net per year for the assistant professor.<br><br>The research fits into the broad area of graph algorithms. The project introduces a new technique for sorting the nodes of graphs and finite automata in order to solve efficiently hard problems including graph isomorphism, NFA equivalence, and compression (see <a href="https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611975994.55">https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611975994.55</a> and <a href="https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611976465.153">https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611976465.153</a> for more details). Applications include computational pan-genomics, graph databases, and regular expression matching. The ideal candidate should be skilled in at least one of the following topics: algorithms, data structures, C++ programming, formal languages, data compression, bioinformatics. Familiarity with the project's topics and techniques is not a requirement: anyone interested in the broad topics of graph algorithms and/or formal languages is welcome to apply.<br><br>If you are interested in the positions or know anyone that might be, do not hesitate to send me an email: <a href="mailto:nicola.prezza@unive.it">nicola.prezza@unive.it</a><br><br>thanks!<br>Nicola<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);clear:both"><p lang="IT-IT" style="margin:0px;color:windowtext"><span lang="IT-IT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,36,81)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nicola Prezza</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);clear:both"><p lang="IT-IT" style="margin:0px;color:windowtext"><span lang="IT-IT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,36,81)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Assistant Professor</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);clear:both"><p lang="IT-IT" style="margin:0px;color:windowtext"><span lang="IT-IT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,36,81)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFont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