Connectionists: Open position for Senior Researcher in Machine Learning at IDIAP Research Inst

[jose.millan@jrc.it]

The IDIAP Research Institute (www.idiap.ch) is currently seeking one talented
senior researcher in machine learning with a proven record of high level
research and project management, and whose interests are aligned with our
existing strengths in speech processing, computer vision, biometric authentication,
and multimedia data mining. A candidate with these strengths will be expected
to play a leading role in the research, teaching ans strategic development
of the Institute.

Most of IDIAP's research ativities take place in the framework of National
long term research initiatives such as the National Centre of Competence
in Research (NCCR) on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management" (IM2,
see www.im2.ch) or large European projects such as "Augmented Multi-party
Interaction" (AMI, see www.amiproject.org).

Specific Knowledge/Skills:

   * PhD in electrical engineering, computer science, signal
     processing, mathematics, statistics, or relevant discipline with a
     minimum of 5 years (post-PhD) experience.
   * Strong record of research and innovation in the area of pattern
     recognition and machine learning (incl. HMM, ANN,SVM, kernel
     approaches, Gaussian processes).
   * Significant experience in software development, including C/C++.
   * Experience with large real world audio and video data sets is
     desirable.
   * Experience in project management and supervision of researchers,
     including PhD students.
   * Good organizational and communication skills, both written and oral.
   * Ability to interact well with international, multi-disciplinary,
     R&D teams.

Initiated in 1991, and supported by the Swiss Federal Government, the State
of Valais, and the City of Martigny, IDIAP (www.idiap.ch) is an independent,
nonprofit research institute located in Martigny (at the edge of the Swiss
Alps), and is affiliated with EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
and the University of Geneva. See http://www.idiap.ch/pages/press/faq.pdf
for more information and FAQs.

IDIAP is building a culturally diverse research community and strongly encourages
applications from female and minority candidates.
Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV, statement of
research interests and accomplishments, and names and email addresses of
3 references. Please sent these to jobs at idiap.ch, with a clear reference
in subject header to "senior position in machine learning").
More information can also be obtained by contacting Prof. Herve Bourlard
(bourlard at idiap.ch), Director of IDIAP.

Start dates are flexible, but applications received by June 30, 2006, will
receive full consideration.

See http://www.idiap.ch/jobs.php for other positions available at IDIAP.

-- 
Prof. Hervé Bourlard
Director, IDIAP Research Institute, www.idiap.ch
Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), www.epfl.ch
P.O. Box 592
Rue du Simplon, 4
CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland
Tel: +41-27-721.77.20
Mobile: +41-79-436.00.35
Fax: +41-27-721.77.12
Email: bourlard at idiap.ch
http://www.idiap.ch/~bourlard