14 November: FYI -- Phd Funding (Trento, Italy)

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You may have enjoyed reading about bots, artificial intelligence,
machine learning, digital assistants, systems that support doctors,
teachers, customers and help people. Then, you would like to consider
taking a front row seat and join the research team that has been
training intelligent machines and evaluating AI-based systems for more
than two decades, collaborating with best research labs in the world
and deployed them in the real-world.

Here is a sample of the projects ( http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/demo/ ) the
Signals
and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) has been leading:

-Natural Language Understanding systems for massive amount of human
language data:
http://www.sensei-conversation.eu

-Amazon Alexa challenge on Conversational Systems:
http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/university-of-trento-is-selected-by-amazon-for-the-alexa-challenge/

-Designing AI personal agents for healthcare domain:
http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/pha/

We are looking for top-candidates for its funded PhD research fellowships.
Candidates should have background at least in one of the following areas:

- Speech Processing

- Natural Language Understanding

- Conversational Systems

- Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Conversational
Agents,
Intelligent Systems, Speech/Text Document Mining and Summarization,
Human Behavior Understanding, Crowd Computing and AI-based systems for
tutoring.


For more info on research and projects visit the lab website
Visit lab website at http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

The SIS Lab research is driven by an interdisciplinary approach to
research,
attracting researchers from disciplines such as Digital Signal Processing,
Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and
Machine Learning.

The official language ( research and teaching ) of the department is
English.

FELLOWSHIP

Gross amount of the fellowships ( internship and PhD ) is competitive and
approximately
1.600 Euro/month.
Students may qualify for reduced campus lodging, transportation and
cafeteria
reduced rates.

For more information about cost of living, campus, graduate education
programs,
please visit the graduate school website at http://ict.unitn.it/

DEADLINES

Immediate openings with start date as early as March 2018. Open until
filled.

REQUIREMENTS

Strict requirement is at least Master level degree in Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics or similar or affine
disciplines. Students with other background
(Physics, Applied Math) may apply as well. Background in at least one of
the posted research areas is required. All applicants should have good very
programming, math skills and used to team work.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should send their
1) CV
2) Statement of research interest and
3) three reference letters sent to:

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it


For more info:

Signals and Interactive Systems Lab : http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

PhD School : http://ict.unitn.it/

Department : http://disi.unitn.it/


Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI)

DISI has a strong focus on cross-disciplinarity with professors from
different faculties of the University (Physical Science, Electrical
Engineering, Economics, Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer
Science) with international background. DISI aims at exploiting the
complementary experiences present in the various research areas in
order to develop innovative methods, technologies and applications.

University of Trento

The University of Trento is consistently ranked as premiere Italian
university institution.
See http://www.unitn.it/en/node/1636/mid/2573

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

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