26 June: fyi -- research positions, Italy
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(Italy)
has openings in the following areas:
Automatic Speech Recognition (PhD Research Fellowship)
Natural Language Processing (PhD Research Fellowship)
Machine Learning (PhD Research Fellowship/Senior Researcher)
HCI/User Interface (Junior Researcher)
Multimodal/Spoken Dialog (Senior Researcher)
The Adaptive Multimodal Interface research lab pursues excellence
research in next-generation interfaces for human-machine and
human-human communication. The research positions will be funded by
the prestigious Marie Curie Excellence grant awarded by the European
Commission for cutting edge and interdisciplinary research.
The candidates for PhD research fellowships should have background in
speech, natural language processing or machine learning. The
successful applicants should have EE or CS degree with strong academic
records.
The students will be part of an interdisciplinary research team
working on speech recognition, language understanding, spoken dialog,
machine learning and adaptive user interfaces. Deadline for
application submission is July 11, 2006 (see http://ict.unitn.it/).
The candidates for the junior/senior researcher positions should have
a PhD degree either in computer science, cognitive science or related
disciplines. They will have an established international research
track record in their field of expertise and leadership
skills. Deadline for application submission is
November 1, 2006.
The applicants should be fluent in English. The Italian language
competence is optional and applicants are encouraged to acquire this
skill on the job. The applicants should have good programming skills
in most of the following C++/Java/JavaScript/Perl/Python. Salaries are
competitive and depending on qualifications.
Relocation package might be available depending on eligibility.
University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer. Interested
applicants should send their CV along with their statement of research
interest and three reference letters to:
Prof. Ing.
Giuseppe Riccardi
Email:
riccardi@dit.unitn.it
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~riccardi
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About University of Trento and Information and Communication Technology
Department (DIT)
The University of Trento is constantly ranked as premiere Italian graduate
university institution
(see www.dit.unitn.it).
DIT Department
-DIT has a strong focus on interdisciplinarity with professors from
different faculties of the University
(Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics, Social Science,
Cognitive Science, Computer Science)
with international background.
-DIT aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the
various research areas in order to
develop innovative methods and technologies, applications and advanced
services.
-English is the official language.
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