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

[Herve Glotin]

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

- 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
analyses and classification. Evaluation 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 and 2014, NIPS 2013, and ICDM 2015.
DYNI has the chair of Scene Analysis at Inst. Univ. de France
(iuf.amue.fr), and th group is dedicated to multimodal scene analysis
from signal to automatic indexing.

DYNI maintains close ties with theoretical research groups in Paris
(DATA team; Sorbonne Univ...), INRIA, Cornell Univ, NYU, Victoria
Univ, Pavia Univ., and some deep learning community.
DYNI has close ties with experimental research groups in Scaled
Bioacoustic: Ocean Network Canada (UVIC), Antares deep sea platform...
some ONGs (OrcaLab, XenoCanto), and industrial partnairs.

Toulon campus provides scientific facilities and is located in the
beautiful Provence Côte d'Azur area in France, between Marseille and
Nice.
LSIS lab actually gathers 200 researchers professors & PhD students in
computer science and signal analysis and 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.

Screening of applications will begin August 17th. 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 the direction team of this project :
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)
before the 17th of August 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