Machine Learning positions for PhDs, Postdocs and Seniors at IDIAP, Switzerland

[Samy Bengio]

SEVERAL OPEN POSITIONS IN SPEECH, COMPUTER VISION, MACHINE
LEARNING, NEURAL NETWORKS, AND MULTIMODAL INTERFACES

(see the full proposal at http://www.idiap.ch/open-positions/open-positions4.html)

The IDIAP Institute (http://www.idiap.ch) is a not-for-profit research
institute affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva.
Located in Martigny (Valais, CH), IDIAP is partly funded by the
Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of
Martigny, and is involved in numerous national and international
(European) projects. Particularly active in the fields of
speech and speaker recognition, computer vision, and machine learning,
where IDIAP is targeting at the highest level of research. The institute
currently numbers around 35-40 scientists, including permanent senior
scientists, postdocs, and PhD students.

Recently, IDIAP (in close collaboration with the EPFL Signal
Processing Laboratory of Prof. Murat Kunt,
http://ltswww.epfl.ch) has been awarded a major (10 years) research grant
as  the "Leading House" of a large National Centre of Competence in
Research on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management".
In view of the resulting (present and future) growth of the
Institute, IDIAP currently welcomes applications of talented
candidates at all levels with expertise or strong interest in
the fields of speech processing, computer vision, machine
learning, and multimodal interaction. The open positions
include: management and senior positions (including one
scientific deputy director and one speech processing group
leader), project leaders, postdocs, and PhD students. Two EPFL
tenure track positions at the Assistant Professor level (with most of
the research responsibilities located at IDIAP) are also
available.

Preference will be given to candidates with experience in one or
several of the following areas: signal processing, statistical
pattern recognition (typically applied to speech and scene
analysis), neural networks, hidden Markov models, speech and
speaker recognition, computer vision, human/computer interaction
(dialog).  Senior and postdoc candidates should also have a
proven record of high quality research and publications. All
applicants should be experienced in C/C++ programming and
familiar with the Unix environment; they should also be able to
speak and write in English (and be willing to learn French).

LOCATION: IDIAP is located in the town of Martigny
(http://www.martigny.ch) in Valais, a scenic region in the South
of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe,
and offering exciting recreational activities (including hiking,
climbing and skiing), as well as varied cultural activities.  It
is also within close proximity to Montreux, Lausanne (EPFL) and
Lake Geneva, and centrally located for travel to other parts of
Europe.

PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES should send their detailed CV, together
with a letter of motivation and 3 reference letters, to:

IDIAP
Att: Secretariat/jobs
P.O. Box 592, Simplon, 4
CH-1920 Martigny
Switzerland
Email: jobs at idiap.ch
Phone: +41-27-721.77.11
Fax: +41-27-721.77.12

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Samy Bengio
Research Director. Machine Learning Group Leader.
IDIAP, CP 592, rue du Simplon 4, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland.
tel: +41 27 721 77 39, fax: +41 27 721 77 12.
mailto:bengio at idiap.ch, http://www.idiap.ch/~bengio