<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><b>Postdoc position: Deep Learning applied to Compressing Audio Signals</b></span></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Applications are invited for a </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">position as a postdoctoral researcher </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">working with Prof Bastiaan Kleijn and Dr David Balduzzi </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">at Victoria University Wellington. The project, funded by Google, is to develop new </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">multi-channel audio encoding methods using deep learning </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">(specifically, recurrent neural networks) in collaboration with researchers at UC Santa Barbara. The position is for one year, potentially renewable. </span></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Victoria University is located in Wellington, a compact, cosmopolitan city of 400,000 people. The campus is a short walk from downtown and the waterfront.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">related fields. Experience in machine learning and/or signal processing along with a strong research track record is essential. For further information please contact Bastiaan Kleijn at <a href="mailto:bastiaan.kleijn@ecs.vuw.ac.nz">bastiaan.kleijn@ecs.vuw.ac.nz</a> (<a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Main/BastiaanKleijn" rev="en_rl_minimal">http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Main/BastiaanKleijn</a>) or David Balduzzi at <a href="http://igi.tugraz.at/" rev="en_rl_minimal">david.balduzzi@vuw.ac.nz</a> (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dbalduzzi/" rev="en_rl_minimal">https://sites.google.com/site/dbalduzzi/</a>).</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">TO APPLY:</span> <span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Applications should include</span></div><div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">- a curriculum vitae with list of publications</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">- names and email addresses of two references</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">- a short (1-2 page) summary of past research and relevant qualifications</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">- a personal Web page, if available</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">The position is to start as early as December 2016 or at an agreed later </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">date. </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Applications will be reviewed when they are received.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></div>
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