The Professorship Big Geospatial Data Management is seeking to fill a research associate position (doc-toral candidate) to support research activities around hard negative sampling for contrastive learning and its applications in geospatial artificial intelligence.
The Professorship Big Geospatial Data Management concentrates on the methodology of acquisition, organization, compression, analysis, and visualization of georeferenced or geometric data on large scales. We put emphasis on methods of distributed computing, machine learning, image and text analysis, randomized data structures, high-performance computing, and quantum algorithms. Beyond this research, we aim to support computational thinking and computational problem-solving in the Earth sciences at large.
The intended research is part of a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and focuses on hard negative sampling for contrastive representation learning. We want to develop sampling strategies that go beyond similarity in the embedding space by integrating domain knowledge such as spatial distance, sensor metadata, or existing maps. A second part of the project investigates how such strategies can be used to identify informative subsets (coresets) of large geospatial datasets. Application domains include cross-view geo-localization and visual place recognition on aerial, street-view, and LiDAR data.
The Professorship Big Geospatial Data Management (TUM) strives to raise the proportion of women in its work-force and explicitly encourages applications from qualified women. Applications from disabled persons with essen-tially the same qualifications will be given preference.
If you are interested in working in our team, please send your application consisting of a motivation letter, curricu-lum vitae, copies of your degrees and transcripts, employment certificates, and any other relevant documents as a single PDF file to applications.bgd@ed.tum.de no later than 1 August 2026. The envisaged starting date is be-tween September and November 2026.
Email address: applications.bgd@ed.tum.de
Do not hesitate to contact Prof. Dr. Martin Werner (martin.werner@tum.de) for any questions you may have. If you apply in writing, we request that you submit only copies of official documents, as we cannot return your materials after completion of the application process.
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