PhD position in DB & KDD at University of Tours, Blois, France

The DB & NLP group of the CS lab. of the University of Tours, 
France, invites applications for a fully-funded 3-year PhD position 
in the area of data warehousing, data mining, analytics and 
exploratory search, starting in September 2014 in the nice city 
of Blois (http://en.blois.fr/) located in the Unesco World Heritage 
area of the "Loire valley". 


The research area is that of interactive exploratory analysis 
of huge amounts of data and research activities will include 
the empirical study, modeling and benchmarking of exploratory 
analyses. Experimental validation will be carried out in the 
context of a regional project aiming at the interactive analysis 
of open data, to study the energy vulnerability of households 
and territories. 


Applicants should have a M.Sc. in computer science and possess 
a very good knowledge of BI (Business Intelligence) related theory
and technics (data warehousing, OLAP, data mining, information 
retrieval), user-centric approaches (recommendation, personalization) 
and development. Experience with open data will be a plus. 
Good proficiency in English is mandatory. French language skills 
are desirable but not mandatory. 


The monthly gross salary is 1685.43 Euro.


Applicants are invited to send a CV, a copy of the official transcript 
of their Master, a copy of their Masterâ?Ts thesis dissertation, publications, 
a cover letter and reference letters, by email, to Patrick Marcel 
(patrick.marcel@univ-tours.fr).