<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>We have an
open PhD position on scalable deep learning and generative models for
continual learning at Eindhoven University of Technology, the
Netherlands.<br><br>Here are some (possible) starting point references on the topic:<br>1) "<i>Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science</i>", <b>Nature Communications</b>, 2018,</div><div dir="ltr"> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04316-3" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04316-3</a>; Code: <a href="https://github.com/dcmocanu/sparse-evolutionary-artificial-neural-networks" target="_blank">https://github.com/dcmocanu/sparse-evolutionary-artificial-neural-networks</a></div><div dir="ltr">2) "<i>One-Shot Learning using Mixture of Variational Autoencoders: a Generalization Learning approach</i>", <b>AAMAS</b> 2018, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07645" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07645</a></div><div dir="ltr">3) "<i>Online Contrastive Divergence with Generative Replay: Experience Replay without Storing Data</i>"<i>,</i> 2016, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05555" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05555</a> <br>4) "<i>Factored four way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines for activity recognition</i>", <b>Pattern Recognition Letters</b>, 2015, <a href="https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/3945755/45733135134994.pdf" target="_blank">https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/3945755/45733135134994.pdf</a><br><br>For informal inquires please feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:d.c.mocanu@tue.nl" target="_blank">d.c.mocanu@tue.nl</a> (please use "PhD position - generative models" in the subject). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Working
language is English. The PhD student will be an employee of the
university and will have a broad package of fringe benefits, e.g.
excellent sports
facilities, pension scheme, holiday allowance, end year bonus; and
he/she may be eligible for 30% ruling.<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The application procedure (for this vacancy please mention <span><span><span><span><span><i>Position A. EDIC - Deep Learning</i> in your cover letter)</span></span></span></span></span>,
detailed information, deadlines, and 3 other related PhD vacancies from my colleagues (exceptional
model mining and predictive analytics for time evolving data) can be
found at: <br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/four-phd-positions-in-the-data-mining-group-419202.html" target="_blank">https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/four-phd-positions-in-the-data-mining-group-419202.html</a><br><br>Happy holidays and best wishes for 2019,<br>Decebal<br><br>====================<br>Decebal Mocanu, PhD<br>Assistant Professor in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence</div><div>Member of TU/e Young Academy of Engineering<br></div><div dir="ltr">Department of Mathematics and Computer Science<br>Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:d.c.mocanu@tue.nl" target="_blank">d.c.mocanu@tue.nl</a><br>Web: <a href="https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/decebal-c-mocanu/">https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/decebal-c-mocanu/ </a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>