Connectionists: Research Positions at Nanyang Technological University

[Tan Ah Hwee (Assoc Prof)]

Research Fellow/Research Associate/Research Engineer

Research positions are now open for a newly funded project in the field of biologically-inspired cognitive agents. The successful candidates will join a vibrant team of postgraduate students, research scientists and engineers in designing and developing cognitive models for human memory systems, specifically on the representation and learning of declarative and procedural memory as well as the interaction between the distinct memory modules.

Applicants for the position must satisfy the following requirement.

Research Fellow

1.      PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science or a related discipline.
2.      Research experience with publications in the fields of cognitive modeling, machine learning, knowledge representation and intelligent agents.
3.      Competency in Java/C++ programming and application prototype development.
4.      Excellent communication and writing skills.

Research Associate/Research Engineer

1.      Good Masters/Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Cognitive Science or a related discipline.
2.      Some experience with research projects in the fields of cognitive modeling, machine learning, knowledge representation and intelligent agents.
3.      Excellent Java/C++ programming and application prototype development.
4.      Excellent communication and writing skills.

The positions are for a period of two years, subject to review and renewal annually. The commencing salary for the above post will be highly competitive and commensurate with the candidates' qualifications and experience.

Suitably qualified applicants are invited to send in their application on prescribed form (obtainable from http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/Career/SubmitApplications/Pages/Research.aspx), a detailed CV, including a list of publications and names of three referees, and other supporting documents to Ah-Hwee Tan (asahtan at ntu.edu.sg). Email submission should use the subject heading of "Application for HML Research Position".

Application will remain opened until the positions are filled. We regret that only short-listed candidates will be notified.





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