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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Computing Science (Fundamental and Applied AI)

Tampere University has several professor positions open related to AI and its applications, covering various areas of signal processing. The positions include a quite substantial starting package, covering funding for multiple research group members. Strong researchers are encouraged to apply! The deadline for applications is 9 March 2025. For more information about the positions, please visit this page.

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Theory/Machine Learning

Do you want to dive into the exciting field of distributed machine learning with a special focus on privacy/security? This research topic is going to shake up how we understand and apply machine learning, with the aim of creating safer and more private solutions in an increasingly digitized world. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to explore and contribute to groundbreaking research questions. While specific research questions will be discussed with the successful applicant, they may include themes such as federated learning, fully decentralized learning, straggler mitigation, graph neural networks, and differential privacy. This is not just an opportunity to develop and shape your own research project, but also to help shape the future of machine learning and privacy. 

Simula UiB currently has 12 early career researchers working on a range of research problems in cryptography and information theory. We can offer a vibrant, stimulating, and inclusive working environment to successful candidates. The position is for two years, with a possible extension of one year. 

Simula UiB offers:

  • Excellent opportunities for conducting high-quality research, as part of a highly competent and motivated team of researchers.
  • An informal, inclusive and international working environment.
  • Support for travel and opportunities to build international networks.
  • Modern office facilities located at Marineholmen in the city centre of Bergen.
  • A competitive salary; starting salary from NOK 575 400.
  • Numerous employee benefits, including access to a company cabin, sponsored social events, an equipment budget, and a comprehensive travel/health insurance policy.
  • Relocation assistance, including complimentary Norwegian language courses.
  • Healthy wellness and work-life balance arrangements.

For full consideration, please submit applications no later than December 31, 2024, using the following site: https://www.simula.no/careers/job-openings/postdoctoral-fellow-in-information-theorymachine-learning

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Postdoctoral researcher

Applications are invited for postdoctoral researcher positions in the general area of optimization and learning of network systems. Competitive financial supports will be provided.

Candidates with a clear interest in the general area of network systems are encouraged to apply.

Specific areas of research include:

  • multi-agent optimization and learning
  • game theory
  • cooperative control

Clemson University is ranked 23rd among national public universities by U.S. News & World Report. It is described by students and faculty as an inclusive, student-centered community characterized by high academic standards, a culture of collaboration, school spirit, and a competitive drive to excel. Clemson is located on Lake Hartwell in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, an area of outstanding natural beauty and temperate climate. It is 30 miles from Greenville, SC, a vibrant and growing city which provides many opportunities for entertainment, culture, and fine dining.

Strong mathematical and analytic skills are desired. Candidates with a demonstrated track record in one or more of the previous area(s) will be preferred. Interested students should send a short resume, along with representative relevant publications, to yongqiw@clemson.edu

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Part-time Research Professors in Mathematics & Data Science in Brussels

We have 4 vacancies for part-time research professors at the Department of Mathematics & Data Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

These 10% research professor positions aim to bring in complementary expertise to the MaDs research group. Preferably, the research is located in the intersection of different domains or offers the potential to bring different lines of research together. 

We aim at junior as well as senior profiles interested in a part-time affiliation at the VUB.

The professors will support our research by attracting national (FWO, VLAIO, Belspo, Innoviris, ...) and/or international funding (EU ERC, Marie Curie, ...), (co)supervising PhD students, attracting post-docs and by publishing in high-impact journals. Possibility of cooperation with industry is a plus.  

More info about MaDs at: https://wids.research.vub.be/nl/mads
More info about the position and application.

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Postdoc Mathematics and Data Science in Brussels

The research group Digital Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Data Science of the Vrije Universitieit Brussel in Belgium is looking for a postdoc in the mathematical foundations for data science (e.g. machine learning, image processing, ...) or post-quantum security. This position requires submitting a project to the Brussels' funding agency Innoviris. More details about the conditions and application procedure at https://we.vub.ac.be/en/dima-digital-mathematics/jobs

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Postdoc in Signal Processing and Machine Learning for cyber security of sensor equipped connected vehicle networks

Postdoc in Signal Processing and Machine Learning for cyber security of sensor equipped connected vehicle networks

Outstanding candidate will pursue important new research results and document them in the top journals and conferences.  

If interested, please send a vita along with your publications and three references. Theoretical research which is mathematically and statistics based is especially appreciated, but applicants should also have the ability to implement/test machine learning and signal processing algorithms. 

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PhD Position in Distributed Signal Processing for Resilient IoT/CPS

About the position:

We have a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow position at the Department of Electronic Systems (IES). The PhD position is for up to 4 years with 25% work assignments for NTNU IES.

Job description:

In the emerging paradigms of CPS and IoT, large quantities of data are constantly collected by multiple sensors to enable accurate inference and smart decision making. The collected data may reveal more information than required because the sensors observe multiple correlated processes. In addition, stringent limitations on IoT sensors often preclude cryptography-based data security, which makes the system vulnerable various types of physical-layer attacks, e.g., data falsification and replay attacks. Examples include unauthorized drone tracking and steering, and data falsification in autonomous transport systems. In summary, to realize the full potential promised by IoT, developed solutions need to incorporate more realistic environments and time-critical constraints to ensure privacy-preserving and attack-resilient network operation.

The aim of this project is to design and analyze advanced distributed signal processing and optimization approaches to overcome security and privacy challenges faced by future CPS/IoT, where traditional methods fail to prevent attacks and loss of privacy. The PhD candidate will be affiliated with NTNU IoT lab, and have the opportunity to visit and collaborate with research scientists from SINTEF, University of Notre Dame, USA and Syracuse University, USA.

Qualification requirements:

We seek a highly-motivated individual who has

  • strong background in mathematics, communications, and statistical signal processing
  • research-oriented master thesis in a related field, e.g., statistical signal processing, information theory, statistical machine learning, multi-agent networked systems, applied mathematics, or optimization
  • experience with programming
  • good written and oral English language skills

Salary and conditions:

PhD candidates are remunerated in code 1017, and are normally remunerated at gross from NOK 479 600 per annum before tax. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

For more information and application submission, please follow the link:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/174696/phd-position-in-distributed-signal-processing-for-resilient-iot-cps

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Postdoctoral Researcher/Project Researcher positions in speech

Two Postdoctoral Researcher/Project Researcher positions in speech processing

The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, is one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in Finland. We offer education in nearly one hundred major subjects, and are home to approximately 15,500 students and 2,500 members of staff. We operate in Joensuu and Kuopio. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading universities in the world.

The Faculty of Science and Forestry operates on the Kuopio and Joensuu campuses of the University of Eastern Finland. The mission of the faculty is to carry out internationally recognised scientific research and to offer research-education in the fields of natural sciences and forest sciences. The faculty invests in all of the strategic research areas of the university. The faculty’s environments for research and learning are international, modern and multidisciplinary.  The faculty has approximately 3,800 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students and some 490 postgraduate students. The number of staff amounts to 560. http://www.uef.fi/en/lumet/etusivu

We are now inviting applications for 

two Postdoctoral Researcher/Project Researcher positions in speech processing funded by the Academy of Finland at the School of Computing, Joensuu Campus.

  • One position in machine learning for speaker modelling (e.g. speaker verification, voice anti-spoofing, voice conversion, text-to-speech, or similar)
  • One position in perceptual and/or acoustic speaker characterization (e.g. phonetics/linguistics, speech modelling, statistical methods)

Both positions are filled in the Academy of Finland funded NOTCH research project (NOn-cooperaTive speaker CHaracterization), led by Associate Professor Tomi H. Kinnunen. The project aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in automatic speaker verification (defence) and voice conversion (attack) under a generic umbrella of non-cooperative speech, whether being induced by spoofing attacks, disguise, or other less expected intentional voice modifications. The NOTCH project applies multi-disciplinary research methods. The ideal candidate for the first position will have a background in machine learning or signal processing for speaker modelling and characterization. You may have a background in recognition, conversion or synthesis methods, as long as you are seasoned in state-of-the-art machine learning theory and practice (especially deep learning). The ideal candidate for the second position will have a background in acoustic-phonetic or perceptual methods for speaker characterization and will be fluent in devising novel statistical analysis methods such as linear mixed effect models. For both positions, multi-disciplinary thinking and willingness to contribute to both themes is considered a plus.

The Computational Speech Group of the School of Computing (https://www.uef.fi/web/speech/) , formed officially in 2018, works in the facilities of Joensuu Science Park, provides access to a modern research infrastructure and is a strongly international working environment. We are a group of dedicated individuals who do not want to follow a linear research path – we keep our mind open to high-risk new directions and collaborations. We hosted the Odyssey 2014 conference, were a partner in the H2020-funded OCTAVE project, and are known as a co-founder of the Automatic Speaker Verification and Countermeasures (ASVspoof) challenge series (http://www.asvspoof.org/). Joensuu, a friendly city “in the middle of KNOWhere” (as one of UEF’s slogans say) of about 115,000 inhabitants, is compact and contains all the necessary services within walking distance, with low living expenses and excellent opportunities for many outdoor activities. Despite its remote location, Joensuu is very international thanks to many of UEF’s international collaboration programmes and a vibrant student community.  

A person to be appointed as a postdoctoral researcher shall hold a suitable doctoral degree that has been awarded less than five years ago. If the doctoral degree has been awarded more than five years ago, the post will be one of a project researcher. The doctoral degree should be in spoken language technology, electrical engineering, computer science, machine learning or a closely related field. Researchers finishing their PhD in the near future are also encouraged to apply for the positions. However, they are expected to hold a PhD degree by the starting date of the position. We expect strong hands-on experience and a creative, out-of-the-box problem solving attitude. A successful applicant needs to have an internationally proven track record in topics relevant to the project he or she applies to.

English may be used as the language of instruction and supervision in these positions.

The positions will be filled from earliest April 1, 2019 for a minimum period of 12 months. The continuation of the positions will be agreed separately. The positions will be filled for a fixed term due to them pertaining to a specific project (positions of postdoctoral researcher shall always be filled for a fixed term, UEF University Regulations , Section 31).

The salary of the positions is determined in accordance with the salary system of Finnish universities and is based on level 5 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research staff (€2,903.61/ month). In addition to the job requirement component, the salary includes a personal performance component, which may be a maximum of 50.0% of the job requirement component. The salary of a postdoctoral researcher is in the beginning around 3,300.00 - 3,500.00 euros.

For further information on the position, please contact (NOTCH): Associate Professor Tomi Kinnunen, email: tkinnu(a) cs.uef.fi, tel. +358 50 442 2647. For further information on the application procedure, please contact: Executive Head of Administration Arja Hirvonen, email: arja.hirvonen(a) uef.fi, tel. +358  29 445 3002.

A probationary period is applied to all new members of the staff.

You can use the same electronic form to apply for both research projects. The electronic application should contain the following appendices:

  • a résumé or CV
  • a list of publications
  • copies of the applicant's academic degree certificates/ diplomas, and copies of certificates / diplomas relating to the applicant’s language proficiency, if not indicated in the academic degree certificates/diplomas
  • motivation letter

The application needs to be submitted no later than February 28, 2019 (by 24:00 EET) by using the electronic application form.

Apply here.

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Open Ph.D. position at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in the area Computer Vision and Deep Learning applied to Facial Analysis in invisible spectra

Open Position for a Ph.D. student at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France in the area of Computer Vision and Deep Learning applied to Facial Analysis in invisible spectra. INRIA Sophia Antipolis is ideally located in the heart of the French Riviera, inside the multi-cultural silicon valley of Europe.

Positions are offered within the framework of the French national project SafeCity in collaboration with Gemalto, France.

Please see the full announcement http://antitza.com/fdp_en_phd_gemalto.pdf

To apply, please email a full application to Antitza Dantcheva (antitza.dantcheva@inria.fr), indicating “Gemalto – Ph.D.” in the e-mail subject line. The application should contain a motivation letter, a CV, as well as contact information for at least two references, who can provide recommendation letters upon request.
The submission deadline is 31st of August 2018. Nevertheless, the application may be closed before the date, if a satisfying candidate is found.

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