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</font><p align="center" style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Scientist Positions
Available at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore</span></u></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">The
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) - </font></span><a href="http://www.a-star.edu.sg/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#0563c1" size="3">http://www.a-star.edu.sg/</font></span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3"> - is a Singapore
government funded group of research institutions which receives multi-billion
(U.S.) dollar funding from the Singapore government - <a href="http://www.nrf.gov.sg/research/r-d-ecosystem/overview">http://www.nrf.gov.sg/research/r-d-ecosystem/overview</a>.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">The
Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) - <a href="http://www.ihpc.a-star.edu.sg/">http://www.ihpc.a-star.edu.sg/</a>
- is a member institute of A*STAR that was established in 1998 to provide
leadership in high performance computing as a strategic resource for scientific
inquiry and industry development. We are seeking highly self-motivated individuals
capable of working independently yet cohesively as a team in the pursuit of
scientific work with high demands on technical flair and a knack for innovative
solutions to various problems. Successful candidates will become part of a
multidisciplinary research team in building algorithms for computational and
artificial intelligence, processing, analysing and interpreting social media
data, data and video analytics, language processing including understanding and generation, computer vision, behaviour understanding, and
commonsense reasoning. If you share our interests in solving challenging
scientific problems, we welcome you to apply for the following positions:</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">1. Scientist (Artificial Intelligence)</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><i><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Job Description:</font></span></i></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">You will contribute towards capability development in some of the
following areas: computational and artificial intelligence systems,
cognitively-inspired systems, intelligent processing, analysis and
interpretation of social media data, data and video analytics, behaviour
understanding systems, and probabilistic and commonsense inference systems.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><i><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Requirements:</font></span></i></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><ol type="1" style="margin-top:0cm" start="1"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A PhD degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering /
Electrical Engineering / Information Systems / Cognitive Science /
Psychology / Physics, or equivalent.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A good scientific research track record and practical
experience in some of the following disciplines: computational and
artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, modelling and simulation, data
and video analytics, and social media data analysis.</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interest and experience with commonsense reasoning systems
will be advantageous.</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary
team.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Strong potential for producing impactful scholarly
publications.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Demonstrates strong interest and ability in research.</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></ol><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="color:navy;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">2. Scientist (Linguistics/Computational Linguistics)</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><i><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Job Description:</font></span></i></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">You will contribute towards capability development in the
following area: design and development of computational and artificial
intelligence systems, specifically language understanding and generation systems.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><i><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Requirements:</font></span></i></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><ol type="1" style="margin-top:0cm" start="1"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A PhD degree in Linguistics / Computational Linguistics /
Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering /
Information Systems / Cognitive Science, or equivalent.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A good scientific research track record in one or more than
one of the following areas: linguistics, computational linguistics,
natural language processing systems, etc.</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interest and experience with cognitive linguistics will be
advantageous.</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary
team.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Strong potential for producing impactful scholarly
publications.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><li style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Demonstrates strong interest and ability in research.</span></li><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></ol><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Salary:</span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">For comparison, in 2013, Singapore’s per capita GDP is
US$55,000 and US’s per capita GDP is US$53,000. Therefore salaries are
commensurate with these figures.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Please submit CV and references by email to Dr. Seng-Beng
Ho at <a href="mailto:hosb@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg"><font color="#0563c1">hosb@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg</font></a>.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Michael Hirsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.hirsch@tuebingen.mpg.de" target="_blank">michael.hirsch@tuebingen.mpg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">******************************<u></u>******************************<u></u>**************<br>
*** APPLICATIONS END SOON ***<br>
*** <a href="http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2015/application.html" target="_blank">http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/<u></u>2015/application.html</a> ***<br>
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<br>
Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
please note that the application deadline for the<br>
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MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL<br>
at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany<br>
13 to 24 July 2015<br>
<a href="http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2015/" target="_blank">http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/<u></u>2015/</a><br>
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is approaching soon. The deadline is this Thursday, February 12th<br>
at 23.59 GMT.<br>
<br>
Due to several requests, the deadline for reference letters will be<br>
extended by one week. Reference letters will be accepted till Thursday,<br>
February 19th, 23.59 GMT.<br>
<br>
Please also note the extended list of speakers!<br>
<br>
<br>
Overview<br>
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The machine learning summer school provides graduate students and industry<br>
professionals with an intense learning experience on the theory and<br>
applications of modern machine learning. Over the course of two weeks,<br>
a panel of internationally renowned experts of the field will offer<br>
tutorials covering basic as well as advanced topics.<br>
<br>
Confirmed Speakers and Topics<br>
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<br>
Rohit Babar (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on<br>
Kernel Methods<br>
<br>
Michael Black (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on<br>
Learning Human Body Shape<br>
<br>
Olivier Bousquet (Google) will speak on<br>
Machine Learning in Industry<br>
<br>
Stephen Boyd (Stanford) will speak on<br>
Optimization<br>
<br>
Tamara Broderick (MIT, ex Berkeley) will speak on<br>
Bayesian Nonparametrics<br>
<br>
Rob Fergus (Facebook / NYU) will speak on<br>
Neural Networks<br>
<br>
Zoubin Ghahramani (Cambridge) will speak on<br>
Bayesian Inference<br>
<br>
Arthur Gretton (UCL) will speak on<br>
Kernels<br>
<br>
Ralf Herbrich (Amazon) will speak on<br>
Machine Learning in Industry<br>
<br>
Neil Lawrence (Sheffield) will speak on<br>
Gaussian Processes<br>
<br>
David Lopez-Paz (MPI for Intelligent Sytems) will co-teach a practical on<br>
Kernel Methods<br>
<br>
Ulrike von Luxburg (University of Hamburg) will speak on<br>
Learning Theory<br>
<br>
Krikamol Muandet (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on<br>
Kernel Methods<br>
<br>
Jonas Peters (ETH Zürich, MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on<br>
Causality<br>
<br>
Stefan Schaal (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on<br>
Learning Robots<br>
<br>
Ilya Tolstikhin (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on<br>
Learning Theory<br>
<br>
Ruth Urner (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on<br>
Learning Theory<br>
<br>
Chris Watkins (Royal Holloway) will speak on<br>
Reinforcement Learning<br>
<br>
Jason Weston (Facebook) will speak on a topic tbc<br>
<br>
Frank Wood (Oxford) will teach a practical on<br>
Probabilistic Programming<br>
<br>
Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on<br>
Causality<br>
<br>
Philipp Hennig (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on<br>
Probabilistic Numerical Methods<br>
<br>
Michael Hirsch (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on<br>
Computational Imaging<br>
<br>
<br>
Application process<br>
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Applications are invited from graduate students, postdoctoral researchers<br>
and industry professionals looking to use, or already using machine<br>
learning methods in their work. This includes researchers in applied<br>
fields as well as students of machine learning itself. Prior experience<br>
is not strictly required, but helpful. A small number of travel stipends<br>
will be available.<br>
<br>
Applicants will be asked to submit a CV, a cover letter of up to 2000<br>
characters, and a short letter of recommendation from one referee of their<br>
choice. We are also seeking to give participants a chance to discuss their<br>
own work with their peers and the speakers. Each applicant is thus invited<br>
to provide the title of a poster they would like to present at the school.<br>
<br>
For more information visit<br>
<a href="http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2015/application.html" target="_blank">http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/<u></u>2015/application.html</a><br>
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Important Dates<br>
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* Monday 12 Jaunary 2015 application system opens<br>
* Thursday 12 February 2015 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS<br>
* Thursday 19 February 2015 DEADLINE FOR REFERENCE LETTERS<br>
* Thursday 12 March 2015 notification of acceptance<br>
<br>
The school takes place from<br>
<br>
Monday 13 July to Friday 24 July 2015<br>
<br>
Organizers<br>
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Michael Hirsch Philipp Hennig Bernhard Schölkopf<br>
<br>
inquiries should be directed to <a href="mailto:michael.hirsch@tuebingen.mpg.de" target="_blank">michael.hirsch@tuebingen.mpg.<u></u>de</a><br>
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