<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dear colleagues and friends,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The machine learning group at UCLA, led by Fei Sha (<a href="http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~feisha/" target="_blank">http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~feisha/</a>) and Ameet Talwalkar (<a href="http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~ameet/" target="_blank">http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~ameet/</a>) , has an open postdoctoral position. <span style="font-size:12.8px">We seek applicants from all areas of machine learning.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Candidates must hold a PhD in computer science, statistics or a closely related discipline, and have a strong publication record in top conferences and journals (NIPS, ICML, JMLR, etc.). The expected start date is late Spring and can be flexible. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px">The postdoctoral researcher is to interact and collaborate closely with both faculty and graduate students in the research group. While the research group has a rich set of ongoing research projects, the postdoctoral researcher is also encouraged to be independent and develop his/her own research agenda that complements existing research endeavors. Quality of research is the ultimate criterion.</div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The UCLA CS department is rapidly growing with core strengths in machine learning, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, data science, computer vision and robotics. UCLA provides a thriving research environment with interdisciplinary activities between these areas and others, and with cross-cutting collaborations among various departments and schools on campus. </span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span></span><div style="font-size:12.8px">The campus is located on the west side of Los Angeles, with convenient access to beaches / mountains / national parks and a fantastic assortment of cultural diversity and activities throughout the metropolitan LA area. UCLA is also in close proximity to many other renowned academic institutions such as Caltech, USC, and <span style="font-size:12.8px">other UC campuses</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Interested candidates should email Fei Sha (feisha at </span><a href="http://cs.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">cs.ucla.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) and Ameet Talwalkar (ameet at </span><a href="http://cs.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">cs.ucla.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) with their CVs, research statements and a list of reference letter writers.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best</div><div class="" style="font-size:12.8px"></div>
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