Connectionists: Post-doctoral position at University of Washington, Seattle

[Jeff Bilmes]

Post-doctoral position at University of Washington, Seattle

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of
Washington, Seattle is offering a one year postdoctoral research
position in the areas of machine learning, probabilistic reasoning,
and time series learning with application to activity recognition. The
starting date could be as early as December 1st, 2006.

This position is funded by a DARPA program in which we develop
techniques for automatically generating high-level summaries of human
activities based on data collected by wearable sensors. There are a
variety of exciting research opportunities in this context, including
unsupervised discovery of activities, learning to extract high-level
information from various types of sensors, adaptation and transfer
learning on sequences, boosted neural networks, multi-modal
information fusion and particularly neural approaches to this problem,
and efficient reasoning about unknown numbers of objects.

Some related papers:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/robotics/abstracts/gps-msb-uai-06.abstract.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/robotics/abstracts/places-ijrr-07.abstract.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/robotics/abstracts/veb-ijcai-07.abstract.html


The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer.  The University is dedicated to the goal of
building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty, and research
staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment
and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities,
individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans.

Please reply by sending email to Jeff Bilmes <bilmes at ee.washington.edu> or
Dieter Fox <fox at cs.washington.edu>.