Connectionists: Two postdoctoral positions on privacy-friendly, decentralized learning for ASR

[Emmanuel Vincent]

Dear list,

The application deadline for these two positions has been postponed:
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01045
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01044

Note that:
- the starting date is flexible (until summer 2019)
- you do not need to hold a PhD yet, provided you are about to obtain 
one or you can demonstrate significant equivalent experience

Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis; please apply as soon 
as possible.

We are looking forward to your application.

-- 
Emmanuel Vincent
Multispeech Project-Team
Inria Nancy - Grand Est
615 rue du Jardin Botanique, 54600 Villers-lès-Nancy, France
Phone: +33 3 8359 3083 - Fax: +33 3 8327 8319
Web: http://members.loria.fr/evincent/


Le 18/09/2018 à 22:22, Emmanuel Vincent a écrit :
> Inria is seeking 3 postdoctoral researchers for a new European (H2020 ICT) collaborative project called COMPRISE. COMPRISE is a 3-year Research and Innovation Action (RIA) aiming at new cost-effective, multilingual, privacy-driven voice interaction technology. This will be achieved through research advances in privacy-driven machine learning, personalized training, automatic data labeling, and tighter integration of speech and dialog processing with machine translation. The technology will be based on existing software toolkits (Kaldi speech-to-text, Platon dialog processing, Tilde text-to-speech), as well as new software resulting from these research efforts.
> 
> The consortium includes academic and industrial partners in France (Inria  <https://www.inria.fr/en/>,Netfective Technology  <https://www.bluage.com/>), Germany (Ascora  <https://ascora.net/>,Saarland University  <https://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/en/home.html>), Latvia (Tilde  <https://www.tilde.com/>), and Spain (Rooter  <https://www.rooter.es/home>). The successful candidates will be part of theMultispeech  <https://team.inria.fr/multispeech/>  team in Nancy or theMagnet  <https://team.inria.fr/magnet/>  team in Lille. Both teams will work in tight collaboration.
> 
> Topics include:
> 
>   * weakly-supervised, semi-supervised learning, learning with partial feedback
>   * theoretical aspects and formal guarantees in private machine learning,
>   * representation learning and deep learning for speech processing,
>   * learning on the edge, federated learning and personalized learning.
> 
> Both theoretical and practical aspects will be developed, possibly by different candidates depending on their skills.
> 
> *Desired profile:*
> 
> Two alternative profiles are welcome, either:
> 
>   * strong background in mathematics, machine learning, statistics and algorithms,
> 
> or
> 
>   * strong experience with implementation and experimentation, speech processing, natural language processing, user modeling.
> 
> *Application deadline:*  October 19, 2018
> 
> *Starting date:*  January 1, 2019 or later
> *Duration:*  2 years (renewable)
> *Location:*  Nancy or Lille, France
> *Salary:*  from 2,130 to 2,520 EUR net/month, according to experience
> 
> *For more details and to apply:*
> https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01045
> https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01044
> https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01038
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Vincent
> Multispeech Project-Team
> Inria Nancy - Grand Est
> 615 rue du Jardin Botanique, 54600 Villers-lès-Nancy, France
> Phone: +33 3 8359 3083 - Fax: +33 3 8327 8319
> Web:http://members.loria.fr/evincent/
>