University of Calicut invites applications for the following posts via direct recruitment:

Post Name: Assistant Professor

Essential Qualification:

Tissue Culture of Agriculture crops:

Masters degree in Botany/Biotechnology with experience in plant tissue culture with at least 55% marks or an equivalent grade at Masters Degree level in Botany/ Biotechnology with specialisation in plant tissue culture from an lndian Universlty or an equivalent Degree from a Foreign University. Candidates besides fulfilling the above qualifications should have cleared the eligibility test for Lectureship conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar tests accredited by the UGC. However, the candidates who have Ph.D Degree in the concerned subject are exempted from NET qualifications

Data Science and Analytics:

(i) Good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) at the Masters Degree level in a relevant subject of this University or an Indian/Foreign University recognized as equivalent thereto as specified in the handbook issued by Association of Indian Universities from time to time.

(ii) Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC like SLET.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clauses (i) and (ii) above, candidates, who are or have been awarded a Ph.D Degree in the concerned subject in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) and Regulations, 2009, shall be exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET

Digital Media Production:

(As per UGC norms)

(i) Good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) at the Masters Degree level in a relevant subject of this University or an Indian/Foreign University recognized as equivalent thereto as specified in the handbook issued by Association of Indian Universities from time to time.

(ii) Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC like SLET.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clauses (i) and (ii) above, candidates, who are or have been awarded a Ph.D Degree in the concerned subject in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) and Regulations, 2009, shall be exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET.

Desirable:

Tissue Culture of Agriculture crops:

Experience in commercial plant tissue culture labs on commercial production, hardening and green house management

Data Science and Analytics:

(1) Experience in machine learning libraries and packages such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras and Theano and scientific computing and analysis packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikitlearn, dplyr, and ggplot2.

(2) Excellent Scripting and Programming skills in both Python and R and expertise to experiment with Machine Learning and data analytics algorithms/models and to perform data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets.

(3) Research expertise in solving analytical problems and building models using quantitative, statistical and machine learning approaches and Proficiency with Deep learning frameworks and transfer learning models.

Digital Media Production:

(1) Experience in machine learning libraries and packages such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras and Theano and scientific computing and analysis packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikitlearn, dplyr, and ggplot2.

(2) Excellent Scripting and Programming skills in both Python and R and expertise to experiment with Machine Learning and data analytics algorithms/models and to perform data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets.

(3) Research expertise in solving analytical problems and building models using quantitative, statistical and machine learning approaches and Proficiency with Deep learning frameworks and transfer learning models

Address to send the application: The Candidate must fill in the application form and send it to University of Calicut along with relevant documents.

For more details related to eligibility criteria, fee, pattern, annexure, place of posting etc. refer to the attachments below.