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This is NTNU NTNU is a broad-based university with a technical-scientific profile and a focus on professional education. The university is located in three cities with headquarters in Trondheim. At NTNU, 9,000 employees and 44,000 students work to create knowledge for a better world. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWHqR5i1FHE About the position The Department of Computer Science at NTNU Gjøvik campus is looking for a candidate for an Associate Professor position in Software Engineering for Intelligent Interactive Systems. The position focuses on advancing research and education in the engineering of intelligent systems designed to perceive, reason, and interact with humans in natural, trustworthy, and socially meaningful ways. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Educational Technology Laboratory and will strengthen its research activities, including work on Social Robots, which will be the primary research home for this position. The lab investigates the design, development, and deployment of socially intelligent systems that interact with humans in natural, trustworthy, and beneficial ways. Its research spans responsible and trustworthy human–robot interaction, multimodal perception that combines natural language processing and computer vision, assistive technologies for active ageing and workplace well-being, and the conditions for responsible AI deployment in care and community settings. The new hire is expected to lead and grow the lab's social robotics research strand, contribute to its international collaboration network and strengthen the department's software engineering research profile in AI-enabled application development. Your immediate leader is the head of the Intelligent Systems and Analytics unit. Duties of the position The candidate is expected to: Play a leading role in research and research-based education in software engineering, with a specialization within intelligent interactive systems. This includes securing highly c