The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center’ Data Visualization and Analytics group is looking for a research lead on AI applied to sports and live entertainment industry.

The group has two research lines directly connected to this position (Urban Data Science and Industrial Data Science) as well as the lines on Interactive Data Visualization and Arts+Science Driven Innovation. The goal of this position is to leverage knowledge and projects on these lines to foster the application of AI on massive events (e.g. sports or entertainment), which includes technology for predicting and simulating people flow, preferences, logistics, as well as recommendation systems and interfaces (visual or oral) for interacting with smart facilities or environments.

The candidate will join the currently ongoing projects, helping them progress correctly, and leverage them towards new applications in the above mentioned fields or new opportunities. The candidate will interact with all the technical leads of the group as well as with external partners and providers. Furthermore, the candidate will participate and actively work on finding and securing funding for future projects.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
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