Connectionists: Open Ph.D. Position at University of Basel

[Volker Roth]

Apologies for cross posting and please forward to whom ever this may be 
of interest to.

------ Open Ph.D. Position at University of Basel -------

1 Ph.D. position is open in the new research group "Biomedical Data 
Analysis" headed by Volker Roth within the department of Computer 
Science at University of Basel, Switzerland. The main focus of this new 
group concerns applications of Machine Learning in the growing area of 
Computational Life Sciences.  
Starting date: October 2007 (or later).

Non-exhaustive list of possible topics:

- kernel methods, (un)supervised learning and clustering
- feature selection for biomarker discovery
- Machine Learning approaches to survival analysis  - biomedical image 
analysis
- network inference
- integration of heterogeneous data

Applicants should have a master degree (or equivalent) in Computer 
Science, Bioinformatics, Mathematics or Physics. The ideal researcher 
will have a strong background on Statistics and Machine Learning, and a 
solid programming experience.

The position is planned for ca. 3 years. The salary and conditions at 
University of Basel are attractive, and Basel is a very livable city.

For more information, or to apply, please contact Volker Roth: 
vroth at inf.ethz.ch

When applying, please explain why you are interested in the topic. 
Please also provide at least one reference.


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Volker Roth
Institute for Computational Science	Tel.: +41-44-63 23179
ETH Zurich, CAB G 81			Fax: +41-44-63 21562
Universitätstrasse 6			email: vroth at inf.ethz.ch
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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