Connectionists: PhD pos.: Deep Learning for Speech / Bioacoustic Recognition

[Herve Glotin]

'PhD student position: Deep Learning for Speech / Bioacoustic Recognition'

( extended deadline application: august 31st.
please forward to whom it may concern )

DYNI / academic LSIS lab is seeking a PhD student in Toulon, France,
to investigate deep learning for efficient bioacoustic representations,
applied to human speech, bird and whales sound classification.
Evaluations will be conducted on international benchmarks.

Since 2012, DYNI heads the SABIOD consortium ( http://sabiod.org )
on Scaled Acoustic Biodiversity, joining several international teams
expert in machine learning, signal processing and bioacoustics.
DYNI chaired several workshops on machine learning meetings
bioacoustics at ICML 2013, 2014, NIPS 2013, ICDM 2015.

Toulon campus provides scientific facilities and is located in the
Provence Côte d'Azur. LSIS lab actually gathers 200 researchers
professors & PhD students in computer science and signal analysis
& pattern recognition.

Applicants should have a strong background in machine learning (maths,
statistics, computer science) & a genuine interest in understanding
neural computation in perceptual intelligence.

Prior exposure to neural computation and machine learning &
programming skills is advantageous. Applicants with interest in
combining machine learning, feature learning & signal processing are
encouraged to apply.

The starting date of the 100% government grant (MRT) is October or at last
December. The full grant lasts at least 3 years (french Phd program
lasts usually 3
years).

Application materials should include a CV (university grades, honors /
awards, brief statement of research interests, contact details of 2
referees), + 1 or 2 work samples, anything that is genuinely the own
work of the applicant (e.g. thesis, computer code, web site demo,
research manuscript / essay).

For informal inquiries, please contact:
Dr. Joseph Razik, Pr. Hervé Glotin and Dr. Sébastien Paris :
razik at univ-tln.fr, h.glotin at gmail.com, sebastien.paris at lsis.org

Submit your application (a single .PDF)
by august 31st to:

phd.application.dyni at gmail.com


Sincerely,
Herve' et coll.

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H. Glotin, Pr - http://glotin.univ-tln.fr - glotin at univ-tln.fr
Institut Univ. de France (IUF), UMR CNRS LSIS, Univ. Toulon (UTLN)
Head of Scaled Acoustic Biodiversity (http://sabiod.org) & DYNI projects