26 June: fyi -- machine learning, Italy

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* JOB OPENINGS IN DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING *
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The Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC) was created with the goal of
promoting the cultural, economic, and social growth of the Province of
Trento. ITC is composed of several research centers and has currently
a staff of 200 full-time researchers (plus several students, fellows,
consultants, and visiting scholars).

The Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) is the
main research center of ITC. Its organization and planning are
directed to pursue both basic and applied research through a
co-ordinated design that integrates objectives of research excellence
and responsiveness to local, national, and international development
needs. IRST's main efforts are concentrated in advanced computer
science (e.g. automated reasoning and decision support systems,
software engineering, natural language, speech recognition, artificial
vision) and microelectronics (e.g. optical and biochemical sensors,
micromechanics). IRST has currently a staff of about 80 full-time
researchers.

IRST has an opening for one position in Data Mining and Machine Learning.

The successful candidate will join the Automated Reasoning Systems
division, lead by Paolo Traverso, an interdisciplinary group who is
active in the area of Agents, Case Based Reasoning and Machine
Learning, Planning, Software Engineering. Currently, 18 full time
researchers are affiliated to the Division. In addition, there are
various PostDoc Fellows, Phd and MSc Students and visitors from
national and international institutions for a total of 42 people.

The successful candidate will work both on state of the art basic
research and in a technology transfer projects aimed at at applying
Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques to specific application
domain.

A currently active project addresses plant diseases in agriculture.


REQUIRED:

- MS or PhD in: Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or
related field;
- good programming skills;
- good problem solving and communication skills
(both written and verbal).

DESIRED:

- familiarity with Data Mining and/or Machine Learning;
- international experience;
- high quality research experience;
- experience with technology transfer projects, industrial projects.

The positions are for a maximum period of three years, to be renewed
each year, and can be further extended at the end of the three years
depending on the scientific results obtained, on the technology
transfer projects acquired, and on the opportunity judged by the
institute to continue this research. Salary and level of appointment
will be commensurate with the successful applicants' qualifications,
experience and achievements, on the basis of the Research staff salary
scale, ranging between 25.000 and 36.000 euro, plus pension.


HOW TO APPLY

The interested candidates should send a resume plus names and
addresses (including email addresses when possible) of two people who
can certify the quality of their research. The resume should make
clear under which circumstances these people have known the
candidates.

Due to time constraints, submissions will be analyzed as soon as they
are received, starting from July 1st. Deadline is December 30th, 2002.

Inquiries and requests for further information should be
sent to the following e-mail address:

positions@irst.itc.it

Applications should be sent to:

Paolo Traverso
ITC-IRST
Via Sommarive 18 - Povo
38050 Trento, Italy
Tel: ++39-0461-314517 (secretary), ++39-0461-314327 (office)
Fax: ++39-0461-302040
email: traverso@irst.itc.it
WWW: http://sra.itc.it/people.epl?name=Traverso

E-mail submissions are strongly preferred.

More information can be found at the following Web addresses:

Automated Reasoning Systems: http://sra.itc.it
IRST: http://www.itc.it/irst/index.html
ITC: http://www.itc.it/


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