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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">
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</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/" target="_blank"><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" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">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">
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</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">
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</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">
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</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">
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</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">
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</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" target="_blank"><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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