Several open positions in speech, vision, machine learning at IDIAP

[Samy Bengio]

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

The Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence
(IDIAP, http://www.idiap.ch) is a semi-private 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. IDIAP is mainly carrying research and
development in the fields of speech and speaker recognition,
computer vision, and machine learning, and is recognized as a
university level research laboratory, involving permanent senior
scientists, postdocs, and PhD students (usually awarded an EPFL
degree). IDIAP currently numbers around 35-40 scientists.

IDIAP, in close collaboration with EPFL (mainly with the Signal
Processing Laboratory of Prof. Murat Kunt,
http://ltswww.epfl.ch) will soon be the "Leading House" of a
large Research Network (National Center of Competence in
Research) on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management",
which also opens up several new opportunities for long term
positions at different levels.

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 (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 motivation letter and 3 reference letters, to:
Prof. Hervé Bourlard, Director of IDIAP, P.O. Box 592, Simplon, 4
CH-1920 Martigny
Switzerland
Email: bourlard at idiap.ch
Phone: +41-27-721.77.20; 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