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      lang="EN-US">In the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Institute

        of Neural Information Processing at Ulm University, Germany,</b>
      we can offer a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">PhD-student
        or postdoc position</b> from June or July 2015 until the end of
      2016 with some potential of prolongation.<br>
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      lang="EN-US">We are working on artificial neural networks and
      learning systems for pattern recognition, in particular on the use
      of affective information in human-computer-interaction and
      companion systems. The particular research focus of this position
      is on the combination of methods and observations from
      sensor-based pattern recognition with methods and information from
      relational knowledge representation and/or the handling of
      uncertainty in this kind of neuro-symbolic integration. </span><span
      style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Times
      New Roman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
      lang="EN-US">The research topic is part of a collaborative
      interdisciplinary research project (SFB-TR 62) on “A companion
      technology for cognitive technical systems”, see <a
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        href="http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/sfb-transregio-62.html?no_cache=1">http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/sfb-transregio-62.html?no_cache=1</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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        lang="EN-US">If you are interested and already have some
        experience in some of these areas, please send us your CV, a
        statement of your current research interest and a list of your
        publications. <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
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          lang="EN-US">For further information, </span>please contact
        me by email or phone (see below).</span></p>
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    </span>Prof. Dr. Guenther Palm
    <br>
    Director of the Institute of
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    Neural Information Processing
    <br>
    University of Ulm
    <br>
    89069 Ulm
    <br>
    Germany
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    phone: ++49 731 50 24150
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    fax:   ++49 731 50 24156
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    email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
      href="mailto:guenther.palm@uni-ulm.de">guenther.palm@uni-ulm.de</a>
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