Connectionists: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Grounded Language Understanding at Koç University KUIS AI Lab, Istanbul, Turkey

[Aykut Erdem]

Dear colleagues,

We are looking for exceptional candidates for a postdoctoral position in grounded language understanding to join KUIS AI Lab at Koç University. 

The position will focus on research on multimodal understanding and reasoning towards learning better representations to capture meaning from multi-sensory data. The successful candidate will be involved in a number of projects, depending on their research interests.

This is a full-time position that will have a yearly appointment with annual renewal expected for up to three years in total. The start date for the position is flexible, but the ideal candidate would begin in November 2020. 

Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in computer vision, natural language processing, or related fields. We are seeking exceptional candidates with great coding skills and strong experience with deep learning.

We provide a competitive benefits package:
Salary: Competitive salary with respect to industry and raise based on performance
Travel: Full support for top-tier conferences.
Computation: A laptop, full access to our GPU cluster, and additional cloud support as needed.
Other benefits: Private health insurance and subsidy for meals.

The Koç University İşbank Artificial Intelligence Lab (KUIS AI Lab) has 13 core and 20+ affiliated faculty from multiple disciplines, including engineering, basic sciences, medicine, economics, management, and social sciences. Research areas include deep learning, reinforcement learning, representation learning, natural-language processing, robotics, computer vision, autonomous driving, bioinformatics, intelligent interaction, interpretability/explainability, multimedia processing, distributed systems and networks intelligence, systems software and more.

More information about the KUIS AI Lab: https://ai.ku.edu.tr <https://ai.ku.edu.tr/>

If you are interested, please provide a cover letter, a research statement including a summary of relevant past research and future academic goals, names of a minimum of three people that are willing to provide reference letter, and at least one and at most three sample publications.

All these documents should be sent electronically via e-mail to Deniz Yuret (dyuret at ku.edu.tr <mailto:dyuret at ku.edu.tr>) or Aykut Erdem (aerdem at ku.edu.tr <mailto:aerdem at ku.edu.tr>) with the subject line [Post-doctoral Fellowship Application].
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