Connectionists: C2W postdoc - deep learning & comparative politics

[Benoît Frenay]

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking a motivated postdoctoral researcher to work on an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of deep learning and comparative politics.

The candidate will work in the Human-Centered Machine Learning (HuMaLearn - https://humalearn.info.unamur.be/) team of Prof. Benoît Frénay and the Belgian and Comparative Politics team of Prof. Jérémy Dodeigne (https://jeremydodeigne.com/).  The exciting goal will be to develop new deep learning methodologies to analyse large corpuses of archive videos that picture political debates.  We specifically aim to detect emotions, body language, movements, attitudes, etc.  This project is linked to the ERC POLSTYLE project that Jérémy Dodeigne recently obtained, guaranteeing a stimulating research environment.  The HuMaLearn team gathers about ten researchers, many of them being actively working in deep learning, but not only and with a keen openness to interdisciplinarity.

The postdoctoral fellowship will be funded by the Connect with Wallonia (C2W) program, a Marie Curie action of the European Union.  With the help of the project supervisors, the candidate will apply for a fellowship of 24 months with highly competitive salary and research/training funds.  "Connect with Wallonia - Come 2 Wallonia" (C2W - https://cometowallonia.eu/c2w) is an individual-driven research training and career development program for Experienced Researchers (ERs), based on incoming mobility.  C2W aims to provide ERs with the expertise and experience needed to become the next generation of leaders with strong expertise and interdisciplinary skills.  Eligible applicants are experienced researchers (i) in possession of a doctoral degree at the call deadline, or (ii) have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.  Eligible applicants cannot have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Belgium for more than 12 months in the three years before the deadline of the call.  Applicants must be fluent in English.

The two promotors will provide support for their application.  Interested candidates can send an e-mail to Benoît Frenay benoit.frenay at unamur.be<mailto:benoit.frenay at unamur.be>  and Jérémy Dodeignejeremy.dodeigne at unamur.be<mailto:jeremy.dodeigne at unamur.be> with

  *   a motivation letter explaining their adequacy with the proposed research topic;
  *   a recent CV with a publication list and a link to an online profile (ORCID, Scholar or equivalent);
  *   their PhD thesis and up to five representative publications.
PhD student who have not yet defended their thesis and who will do so in the next coming months are welcome to apply (in which case, sending us a PhD thesis is not mandatory).

Applications will be processed as they come, with a deadline on the 14th of July.

Best regards,

Jérémy Dodeigne
Benoît Frénay
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