Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professorship

SUNG KAH KAY ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP

A Faculty Chair has been established at NUS in memory of Prof. Kah Kay Sung –– I was his Ph.D. advisor at the MIT AI Lab and a close, personal friend.

The holder of the chair would benefit from everything that one of regular asst professors could get, plus the prestige of the chair and the opportunity to use the income from the endowment for his/her research or other scholarly activities. NUS aims to recruit an outstanding young scholar for this position.

Conditions at NUS are very good in terms of compensation packages, including salaries (better than many US universities), housing and weather. The academic atmosphere and the facilities are as good as the US standards; there is an English-speaking environment and a faculty trained in the US with close connections to the US and Europe.

Tomaso Poggio

Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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Dr. Kah Kay Sung graduated with B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from MIT. He joined the Computer Science faculty at the National University of Singapore. In both his research into face recognition, as well as undergraduate teaching, Dr Sung showed great promise. In his memory, his family and friends have established the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professorship to attract and retain outstanding young scholars in computer science.

The National University of Singapore is actively recruiting the first incumbent of this named chair. The incumbent will receive a competitive compensation package and, in addition, will benefit from the use of the income from the endowment to support research or other scholarly activities.

Please send applications and nominations to:

Chair, Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professorship Recruitment Committee

Department of Computer Science

Blk. S16, Level 5

3 Science Drive 2

Singapore 117543

Attn: Ms. Helen Yeo hyeo@comp.nus.edu.sg

Here is the link with the formal advertisement:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/recruit/sungkkchair.html

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