Connectionists: Two Ph.D. studentships in statistical machine learning and speech recognition

[Peter Sollich]

Dear colleagues,

I would be grateful if you could pass on the advert below to any potential
candidates, or colleagues in relevant areas.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Peter Sollich

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                         Two Ph.D. Studentships
                        at King's College London

        Robust syllable recognition in the acoustic waveform domain

                        Start date: 1 April 2006
                  (or as soon as possible thereafter)

Two fully funded three-year Ph.D. studentships are available on an EPSRC
research grant for study under the supervision of Dr Zoran Cvetkovic
(Electronic Engineering) and Prof Peter Sollich (Mathematics) at King's
College London. The aim of the research project is to investigate whether
automatic speech recognition can be made more robust against noise by
working directly in the high-dimensional space of acoustic waveforms
rather than with more standard low-dimensional feature vectors. Further
details on the project and the relevant background can be found at
http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~psollich/speech.html

Applications are now invited from suitably qualified candidates with an
excellent first degree in electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics,
computer science, or theoretical physics. The project will involve
research at the interface of signal processing, information theory, and
machine learning (pattern recognition, statistical inference). Experience
in one of these areas, preferably at Master's level, will be an advantage.
Interested candidates should contact Dr Cvetkovic or Prof Sollich directly
and as soon as possible (contact details below), preferably by email.

The grant provides payment of full university fees (at the rate for
European Union students), a maintenance grant of around 13,600 pounds per
year, as well as provision for travel to conferences and dedicated
computing equipment. The successful applicants will be based at King's
College's Strand Campus. This is the most central of all the London
colleges, situated midway between the Houses of Parliament and St Paul's
Cathedral and close to Covent Garden, Soho, and Trafalgar Square.

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Dr Zoran Cvetkovic
Director, Centre for Digital Signal Processing Research
Division of Engineering
Email: zoran.cvetkovic at kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 - (0)20 - 7848 2858
Web:   http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/pse/diveng/research/cdspr/zor/

Prof Peter Sollich
Department of Mathematics
Email: peter.sollich at kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 - (0)20 - 7848 2875
Web:   http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~psollich/

King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.
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