Connectionists: researcher position at IDSIA/IPG

[Alessandro Antonucci]

Dear Colleagues,

We have an opening for a researcher position at our imprecise
probability group at IDSIA.

Duties
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The person hired on this position will evenly share her/his working
time on two main activities:
-  basic research, aiming at publishing in highly rated journals and
international conferences; and
-  applied research, by taking responsibility of cutting-edge projects
in tight collaboration with companies.

A cross-activity will be the search for funding opportunies of both
basic and applied research.

Requirements
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-   This position is for a junior researcher.
-   Doctorate degree and master degree with top grades in mathematics,
or physics, or engineering, or informatics, or statistics or other
quantitative areas.
-   Excellent theoretical as well as applied knowledge of Bayesian
networks and other graphical models (in particular of
structure/parameter learning) and modern data mining algorithms (in
particular for classification and clustering, but regression and time
series are also desirable). These skills have to be backed up by a
good record track of technical papers.
-   Excellent mathematical skills.
-   Excellent (software-engineer-level) programming skills (C, C++,
Java), knowledge of operating systems (Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows) and
development tools (e.g., Eclipse).
-   Good knowledge of specialized mathematical/statistical
environments, such as MATLAB and R.
-   Good knowledge of computational complexity theory.

(Soft skills)
-   Very good communication skills in spoken and written English.
-   Good knowledge of Italian or alternatively a commitment to learn
it as soon as possible.
-   Ability to work in a team and in a collaborative environment.
-   Autonomy.

Desirable but not strictly required
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-  Knowledge of imprecise probability (e.g., credal networks, credal
classification, uncertainty modeling with sets of distributions).
-  Good knowledge of (Bayesian) statistics.
-  Good record track of granted research projects as main applicant or
co-applicant.
-  Past experience of leading/working in applied research projects in
collaboration with companies.
-  Good knowledge of German and French.

We offer
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- A first two-year contract that constitutes an evaluation period (the
evaluation period can possibly be extended). The positive feedback of
performance appraisal leads to a permanent position.
-  A competitive swiss salary commensurate to the candidate's age and
experience.
-  Travel funding to participate to conferences, workshops and the like.
-  An international working environment.
-  Collaboration with experts in data mining, Bayesian networks,
imprecise probability, statistics: the hired candidate will join in
particular the imprecise probability group at IDSIA
(http://ipg.idsia.ch).
-  Opportunity to develop professional and scientific skills as well
as career progression.


For more information and details about the application procedure,
please send a message to Marco Zaffalon (zaffalon at idsia.ch).

http://www.idsia.ch/~zaffalon