PhD/PostDoc Position Available

[Marcus Hutter]

PhD / Postdoc Position Available
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IDSIA, Switzerland, is seeking for one outstanding PostDoc or PhD student 
with excellent mathematical skills interested in reinforcement learning, 
algorithmic information theory, Kolmogorov complexity, Minimal Description 
Length (MDL), information theory and statistics, Bayesian online sequence 
prediction, prediction and action with expert advice, computational 
complexity theory, universal Solomonoff induction, universal Levin search, 
sequential decision theory, adaptive control theory, and/or related areas.

Possible backgrounds are computer science, physics, mathematics, etc. The 
initial appointment will be for 2 years. Normally there will be a 
prolongation.

The new PhD student/PostDoc will interact with Marcus Hutter and Juergen 
Schmidhuber and other people at IDSIA.

See http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/idsia/phdpos.htm for more information on the 
PhD position and http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/idsia/postdoc.htm for more 
information on the PostDoc position.

Applicants should submit:

  (i) Detailed curriculum vitae (including grades),
 (ii) List of three references (and their email addresses),
(iii) Concise statement of their research interests (1-2 pages).
(iv) Links to their thesis and/or publications.

Please send all documents till end of January 2005 to:

Marcus Hutter, IDSIA, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland.

Applications can also be submitted by email to marcus at idsia.ch (1MB max!).
www pointers to ps/pdf/doc/html files are welcome.
Use Firstname.Lastname.DocDescription.DocType for filename convention.

Thanks for your interest

Marcus Hutter, Senior researcher, IDSIA
Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Galleria 2 CH-6928 Manno(Lugano) - Switzerland
Phone: +41-91-6108668 Fax: +41-91-6108661
E-mail marcus at idsia.ch     http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus

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ABOUT IDSIA. Our research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement
learning, complexity and generalization issues, unsupervised learning and
information theory, forecasting, artificial ants, combinatorial
optimization, evolutionary computation. IDSIA is small but visible,
competitive, and influential. IDSIA's algorithms hold the world records for
several important operations research benchmarks (see Nature 406(6791):39-42
for an overview of artificial ant algorithms developed at IDSIA). In the
"X-Lab Survey" by Business Week magazine, IDSIA was ranked in fourth place
in the category "COMPUTER SCIENCE - BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED" - after the Santa
Fe Institute, Stanford University, and EPFL (also in Switzerland). Its
comparatively tiny size notwithstanding, IDSIA also ranked among the top ten
labs worldwide in the broader category "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE".

IDSIA is located near the beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino (pictures), the
scenic southernmost province of Switzerland, origin of special relativity
and the WWW. Milano, Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away,
Venice 3 hours. Our collaborators at CSCS (the Swiss supercomputing center)
are right beneath us; we are also affiliated with the University of Lugano
and SUPSI. Switzerland boasts the highest citation impact factor, the
highest supercomputing capacity pc (per capita), the most Nobel prizes pc
(450% of the US value), and perhaps the best chocolate.