Connectionists: CIFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship

[Nando de Freitas]

CIFAR’s Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception (NCAP) Program is seeking
a postdoctoral researcher to fill a Junior Fellowship position beginning in
or after January 2011.

Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Computational
Neuroscience, or a related discipline, and already have an exceptional track
record of original research. The Junior Fellow will pursue his or her own
research program, which should be related to computational approaches to how
visual systems can be learned, preferably with some relevance to biological
visual systems. The Junior Fellowship will be held in conjunction with a
university postdoctoral appointment and is tenable at any of the Canadian
universities where Fellows in the NCAP Program are based. A list of these
Fellows is provided below.

Eligibility: Individuals who have completed their PhD in one of the
above-mentioned disciplines within the past three years, or will complete
their doctorate before January 2011, are eligible to apply. In addition to
an outstanding record of accomplishment, the successful candidate will have
excellent communication skills, strong potential to collaborate with program
members and ability to contribute to the program’s mission. The candidate
will also be interested in exploring the contributions of research to
society in collaboration with their peers from other CIFAR programs.

Duration: Two years.

Value: $65,000 CDN/year for salary, plus benefit support, if needed
$5,000 CDN/year for research support

How to Apply: Applications will be submitted through an online application
system. Instructions will be posted on or before July 5, 2010 at
www.cifar.ca/JFA, with an application deadline of September 1, 2010. Visit
today for more information about CIFAR and its Junior Fellow Academy.

CIFAR is strongly committed to diversity within its community, and
especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women,
Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority
groups and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas.
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*Canada-based NCAP Program Fellows are listed below. For more information,
please visit the researcher profiles posted on the CIFAR website.
UBC: Nando de Freitas, David Lowe
U of Toronto: David Fleet, Brendan Frey, Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Zemel
Queen’s U: Nikolaus Troje
York U: Hugh Wilson
U de Montréal: Yoshua Bengio
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