Connectionists: Job Opportunities at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA

[Schmidhuber Juergen]

Join the Deep Learning team that won more international competitions in machine learning and pattern recognition than any other research group [1]. We are at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA [2], in the world's leading science nation [3], also the world's most competitive country for the 5th year in a row [4] - since 2009, when our neural networks became the first Deep Learning systems to win official international contests [5]. We are especially interested in candidates applying for our prestigious Marie Curie Experienced Researcher Fellowship connected to the ProtoTouch project (a postdoctoral position) [6]. We offer a highly competitive Swiss salary. Please follow the instructions [7]. Deadline 8 December 2013 (right after NIPS).

[1] Deep Learning since 1991 - pattern recognition, image segmentation, object detection  www.deeplearning.it

[2] The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA http://www.idsia.ch/

[3] The world's leading science nation with the most Nobels/patents/citations/funding per capita http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/switzerland.html

[4] Global Competitiveness Report  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Competitiveness_Report 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-economy-competitiveness-idUSBRE98215T20130903

[5] 2009: First international competitions (with secret test sets known only to the organisers) won by Deep Learning http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/handwriting.html

[6] http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/105932_en.html

[7] Get a job!  http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/eu2013.html