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Activity Understanding group (Jean-Marc Odobez) at Idiap Research Institute invites applications for a PhD position within a French–Swiss SNSF project (AIMANT) on social-AI models for behavior understanding in the context of autism early screening, diagnosis,
and monitoring.</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;">The project focuses
on developing multimodal behavior models (face and body gestures, gaze, audio, semantics) with temporal structure, at both individual and interaction (child–clinician) levels. A central objective is to leverage these models to derive clinically relevant ASD
profile scores from video data.</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;">The work will be carried
out at Idiap, in collaboration with Inria (STARS team, Sophia-Antipolis), LIRIS (IMAGINE team, Lyon), and Université Côte d’Azur (Nice) as healthcare partner. The selected candidate will be enrolled at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, EDEE doctoral
school; </span><a href="http://phd.epfl.ch/applicants" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://phd.epfl.ch/applicants</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;">Idiap provides a strong
research environment in machine learning and computer vision, along with competitive salary and conditions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Application:</span><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4389217973/?alternateChannel=search&refId=NotAvailable" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4389217973/?alternateChannel=search&refId=NotAvailable</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About
Idiap:</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Idiap is an independent,
not-for-profit, research institute recognized and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny. Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a young, high-quality, dynamic, and multicultural environment.
Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the best candidate, provides equal
opportunity for all candidates, and equally encourage both genders to apply.</span></span></p>
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the town of Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied
cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the official working language. Free French lessons are also provided on a complimentary basis.</span></p>
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questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland, please go to http://www.idiap.ch/en/faq</span></p>
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