Research Positions in NN/Speech Rec.

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A friend of mine asked me to post the following announcement of research 
positions. Please do not reply to this posting since I have nothing to
do with the selection process,

Joachim Buhmann

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        POSITIONS IN NEURAL NETWORKS / SPEECH RECOGNITION AVAILABLE
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                Technical University of Munich, Germany
                        Physics Department, T35

The theoretical biopysics group of Dr. Paul Tavan offers research positions
in the field of neural networks and speech recognition. The positions are
funded by the German Federal Department of Research and Technology (BMFT)
for a period of at least three years, starting in January 1992. Salaries
are paid according to the tariffs for federal employees.  Position offered
include a postdoctoral fellow (BAT Ib) and positions for graduate
students (BAT IIa/2). The latter includes the opportunity of pursuing
a Ph.D. in physics.

The project is part of a larger project aiming towards the development of
neural algorithms and architectures for the transformation of continuous
speech into symbolic code. It will be pursued in close cooperation with
other german research groups working on different aspects of the problem.
Within this cooperation our group is responsible for the definition and
extraction of appropriate features and their optimal representation based
on selforganizing algorithms and methods of statistical pattern recognition.
Higher-level processing, e.g., the incorporation of semantic knowledge
is *not* the central issue of our subproject.

The postdoctoral position involves coordination and organization
of the research projects within the group and the overall project.
Applicants for this position therefore should have broad experience
in the areas of neural networks and/or speech recognition. Applicants
for the other positions should hold a masters degree in physics.
Experience in the field of neural networks/pattern recognition would
be valuable but is not necessarly required. Profound background in
mathematics however is. All applicants should have programming experience
in a workstation environment and should most of all be able to perform
project oriented research in close teamwork with other group members.
University policy requires all applicants to spend a limited amount of
time on teaching activities at the physics-department of the TUM
besides their research.

Applications should be sent before December 1st, 1991 and include

- a curriculum vitae,
- sample publications, technical reports, thesis reprints etc. and
- a brief description of the main fields of interest in the research
of the applicant.

Please direct application material or requests for further information to:

Hans Kuehnel
Physik-Department, T35
Ehem. Bauamt
Boltzmannstr.
W-8046 Garching
GERMANY
Phone: +49-89-3209-3766
Email: kuehnel at physik.tu-muenchen.de