POSTDOC JOB OPENINGS

[Luca Gambardella]

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                    IDSIA: POSTDOC JOB OPENINGS

  Statistics, Neural Nets, Forecasting, Planning, Optimization
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IDSIA - Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale 
is a machine learning research center located in Lugano (Switzerland). 
IDSIA receives subsidies from both private and public sectors.

NEW PROJECT. 
Starting 1996, IDSIA will collaborate with a private company 
producing software tools for supporting container terminal 
organization and resource allocation. Goals of the project are:

(1) Forecasting the container terminal's input/output flow, using 
statistical models, neural nets, etc., and taking expert knowledge 
into account. There is a huge data base describing the terminal 
activity in previous years. IDSIA has considerable expertise in 
this area.

(2) Finding optimal container positions in the stockage area. Where
to place an incoming container? This depends on many parameters: 
final container destination, size and content, the next carrier, 
current occupancy of the container parking area (often, to grab one 
container others need to be rearranged). Emphasis is on optimization 
and planning.

IDSIA's role is to define methodologies for solving problems (1) and 
(2). The private company's role is to produce a collection of software
tools integrated in the existing industrial software environment.  

The 2 year project is supported by Swiss Government funds (CERS/KWF),
and will involve 6 man years. In the first (second) year, there will
be two (one) IDSIA researcher(s) and one (two) company employee(s).

IDSIA has two immediate openings (one for 1 year, other for 2 years).
Required expertise:

 Ph.D. in computer science, statistics (or similar)
 experience in forecasting (statistics, neural nets, etc.).
 experience in optimization and planning 
 experience in industrial applications

Please send postscripts of resume, description of current interests, 
names of three referees, and other related information to:

Luca Gambardella
IDSIA
C.so Elvezia 36
6900 Lugano CH
email: luca at idsia.ch

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 31.