9 October: fyi -- fellowships, Trento
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The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interface Research Lab at
University of Trento (Italy) has been awarded the prestigious Marie Curie
Excellence Grant and has openings for two junior Marie Curie Fellowships in
the following research areas:
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Multimodal/Spoken Dialog
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 Marie Curie
Excellence grant awarded by the European Commission for cutting edge and
interdisciplinary research.
The candidates for the 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
November 1, 2007.
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
http://casa.dit.unitn.it
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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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Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi
Marie Curie Excellence Leader
Department of Information and Communication Technology
University of Trento
Room D11, via Sommarive 14
38050 Povo di Trento, Italy
tel : +39-0461 882087
+39-0461 883994
email: riccardi@dit.unitn.it
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