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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>A permanent Assistant Professor Position is available at the University of Tours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Research profile expected is in <u>artificial intelligence and more particularly in the field of applied deep learning mainly (but not exclusively) visual data (videos, images, multimodal data, ...)</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Research expertises concerns :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>- the theoretical aspects of current machine learning techniques: advanced deep architectures, deep learning by reinforcement, generative adversarial network;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>- the theoretical aspects of computer vision; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>primarily dedicated to :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>- visual data (images, videos) and/or multimodal data (news, data journalism...) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>- structured data (Graph Convolutional Neural Networks...).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Important Remarks: as the teaching activities are in French, the candidate is expected to have a good knowledge of the French language</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Deadline: March, the 9<sup>th</sup> at 4pm (GMT+1)</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>More details at: </span><a href="https://lifat.univ-tours.fr/medias/fichier/27-mcf-0218-iut_1579101508625-pdf"><span lang=EN-US>https://lifat.univ-tours.fr/medias/fichier/27-mcf-0218-iut_1579101508625-pdf</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='color:#1F497D'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='color:#1F497D'>Donatello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='color:#1F497D'>-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='color:#1F497D'>Donatello Conte<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='color:#1F497D'>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Tours<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours (LIFAT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>64, Avenue Jean Portalis 37200 TOURS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tel : +33 (0) 2 47 36 12 69<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:black'><img border=0 width=280 height=67 style='width:2.9166in;height:.6958in' id=D20B71FD-9DBD-426D-B206-79F2690FD426 src="cid:image001.png@01D5D5DF.D65D9C20" alt="cid:34455EB5-BC95-4499-8FB7-F1E55ECFAD50@univ-tours.local"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>