Connectionists: Post-doc positions at University of Liege, Belgium

[Raphael.Maree.]

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The Bioinformatics and Modeling research unit at the GIGA Biomedical
Research Center and at the Montefiore Institute of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Liège is seeking
for Post-Doctoral researchers respectively in machine learning for
bioimage informatics and machine learning for biological network
inference to begin between October 2013 and January 2014.


Theme 1: Machine learning for bioimage informatics 
The researcher will be working closely with a team of software
developers, researchers in machine learning, and biologists, to advance
high-throughput automated analysis of high-resolution images in the
context of cancer research, developmental biology, and diagnostic
pathology. The applicant will be involved in the design of novel
algorithms and their large-scale evaluation for cell and phenotype
recognition, and tissue segmentation and quantification. She/He will
have access to a high-performance computing environment and the inhouse
developed Cytomine platform able to process terabytes of imaging data.

Theme 2: Machine learning for biological network inference
The researcher will participate to the effort of the team on the 
development of machine learning techniques for the inference of
biological networks.  In particular, the applicant will be involved in
the extension of network inference methods to integrate various kinds of
data and the practical application of these methods on real biomedical
datasets. Depending on the interest of the applicant, the work could
focus more on methodological developments in machine learning or on some
specific biomedical applications.


Applicants should hold a PhD and have strong knowledge in machine learning,
bioinformatics and/or computer vision. Programming and data analysis 
skills are also highly desirable. The candidates should be highly motivated,
with a strong interest in large-scale biomedical applications. A working
knowledge of English language is mandatory, and of French is a plus.

Application procedure: Interested individuals should send a CV, a brief
statement of research and development interests, three relevant publications, 
and the names and contact details of two references by e-mail to:
Raphaël Marée (Raphael.Maree at ulg.ac.be) with subject "Postdoc ULG".
Candidates interested should send their application before 
mid-February 2013. The final decision will be taken in June 2013. The
position will be available for an initial period of 1 year, with
possible one-year extension after mid-term evaluation.

More information:
- The GIGA research center: http://www.giga.ulg.ac.be/jcms/c_5015/en/home
- The Montefiore Institute: http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be
- Research Unit in Systems and Modeling: http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/systmod/
- The CYTOMINE research project: http://www.cytomine.be/ (Theme 1)
- The Liège city: http://www.liege.be/tourisme-en/photographie-de-liege


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