PhD/Posdoc Positions in Biomedical Data Mining
University of Geneva/University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Applications are invited for 2 PhD students and 1 Postdoc in data mining
applied to biomedical data. The candidates will work on a 4 year
European research project (FP7). The project will involve several
clinical sites across Europe, including the University Hospitals of
Geneva, as well as leading EHR vendors. The goal of the project is to
deliver computer tools and methods to advance the state of the art in
documenting, detecting and preventing antibiotics resistance at both
clinical and population levels.
Candidates should have the following qualifications:
-an outstanding academic record in computer science as well as strong
mathematical and programming skills;
-a solid background in at least two of the following areas: distributed
database management, quantitative analysis, machine learning,
information retrieval, business intelligence, ontology engineering,
multimodal data management (structured data/text/signals...).
-a clear aptitude for independent and creative research as evidenced by
an excellent Master or PhD thesis;
-good communication skills in English and French (or at least a clear
indication of willingness to learn the latter).
The salary for a research assistant at the University of Geneva starts
at about 50000 CHF (~45000 USD or 30000 Euro) per year. The University
and University Hospitals of Geneva are equal opportunity employers.
Please send your curriculum vitae, academic transcript, and contact
information to patrick.ruch@sim.hcuge.ch.
PhD/Posdoc Positions in Biomedical Data Mining
PostDoc position in Computer Vision in China
LIAMA Sino-French Laboratory in Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics, BEIJING, P.R. CHINA.
French CNRS postdoctororal contract, for two years.
The closing date for application is ** March 30, 2008 **.
The postdoc project is described on: https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/post-docs08/?pid=1&action=view&id=596&lang=en
Formal description of the position is available on: https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/post-docs08/?pid=8&lang=en
For further information, feel free to contact Franck.Davoine at gmail.com
Applications include a CV and a statement of interest, a link to the Ph.D. thesis, a list of publications, references (names, homepages), in PDF-format, and the formal application form available on https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/post-docs08/?pid=1&action=view&id=596&lang=en at the following address:
Dr. Franck Davoine, LIAMA / CASIA, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 95, Zhongguancun Dong Lu, PO Box 2728, BEIJING 100080, P.R. CHINA.
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Despite active research in the past decades, robust analysis of facial actions for automatic human behavior understanding in unconstrained environments, as well as non invasive and very accurate capture of subtle facial performances are still very difficult problems, and pose significant research challenges. This is mainly due to the high variability of the face's appearance over time, caused by intrinsic and extrinsic factors such as changes in illumination, out-of-plane rotations, occlusions, facial expressions, etc.
The postdoc position is in the field of human activity and behavior analysis. The successful candidate is expected to participate in the development of novel methods, together with Dr. Franck Davoine, considering richer adaptive models for a better analysis of faces, possibly considering contextual knowledge extracted for example from modalities like body postures or hand gestures. Different focus options are available depending on the interests and strengths of the candidate.
He will be expected to do leading-edge research in the area of computer vision and statistical learning, and be involved in collaborative research projects with academic and industrial partners. He will be employed by the CNRS, and based at the LIAMA Sino-French laboratory in Beijing, P.R.China, during 24 months.
LIAMA is located in the northwestern part of Beijing, in the Haidian science park described as China's Silicon Valley. It offers a very exciting environment for research, a possibility to conduct competitive research and opportunities to cooperate with some of the best groups in China.
Information about the LIAMA is available on http://liama.ia.ac.cn/wiki/
We seek a post-doctoral researcher worldwide. Applicants must have most of the following attributes:
* Excellent computer programming abilities in C/C++/Matlab.
* Proven knowledge and experience of modern computer vision or statistical methods for machine learning.
* A track record of publications in first-rank international computer vision or statistical learning conferences and journals.
* Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
* Creative team player.
text mining position at the National Centre for TextMining in collaboration with Pfizer
Research position at the National Centre for Text Mining (www.nactem.ac.uk) in collaboration with Pfizer
Applications are invited for a Research Associate in biotext mining for a period of 12 months. The post is available from 1st April 2008. The candidate will work within a project funded by Pfizer. The overall aim of the project is to develop named entity recognisers for biotext mining applications. The project will extend and customise NaCTeM's tools and services such as TerMine and AcroMine, to support text mining research at Pfizer. The successful candidate will be part of a strong and dynamic team in biotext mining, and will work closely with the co-located team of the National Centre for Text Mining (www.nactem.ac.uk) which is hosted by the School of Computer Science.
Applicants should have a good relevant first degree (minimum 2:1), an MSc in Computer Science, and preferably a PhD in a text mining area. They should not be still studying for a degree. They should have excellent software engineering skills; have the ability to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems; the ability to produce experiments for biotext mining applications using large data sets; excellent knowledge of text mining using machine learning techniques and in particular named entity recognition, disambiguation, information extraction for biomedical applications; excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A good publication record would be an advantage. Successful candidates should ideally have research project experience in the areas of biomedical named entity recognition and disambiguation.
For more information see the following website:
http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/employment/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=131689
Closing date for applications: 27th February 2008
Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou.
Please quote reference: EPS/80057
Post-Doctoral Position in "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
Post-Doctoral Position in "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
International Research Training Group "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" is pleased to announce the availability of a post-doctoral position available from June, 2008. The programme, established in 2001, is a collaborative PhD training programme between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh - two leading institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The participating departments in Saarbruecken are the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the Department of Computer Science.
The IRTG focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human language processing, particularly emphasizing the following research areas:
- Language understanding (including spoken language processing, cognitive modelling, and experimental psycholinguistics)
- Knowledge representation, inference, the lexicon, and ontologies
- Data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and machine learning methods)
- Dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)
Candidates must have completed all requirements for their PhD degree by the time of appointment. The ideal candidate for the post-doctoral position will have research interests which span computational and cognitive aspects of language processing, and have experience overlapping several of the above areas. In addition to the opportunity to carry out independent and collaborative research, the position also includes some administrative duties associated with the program. Some teaching is also possible, but not a requirement of the post. The position comes with access to state-of-the-art computing facilities, and the possibility to use the range of facilities on-site - such as eye-tracking, dialog, speech, and robotics laboratories - by arrangement with the relevant lab directors. Salary is on the German TV-L E13 scale (approx. 35K Euros per annum, depending on age and marital status). Support for travel to conferences is also available. The position is available from June 1, 2008 until March 31, 2010.
For more information about the graduate college and current members, prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/
The final deadline for applications is 3 March, 2008. Any inquiries concerning the post should be directed to the e-mail address below. Complete applications including: (1) a statement of research interests, (2) a full CV, (3) two example publications, and (4) the names (and e-mail addresses) of two referees, should be sent (preferably via e-mail) to:
Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker
e-mail: irtg-admin@coli.uni-sb.de
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
P.O. Box 15 11 50
66041 Saarbruecken, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)681 302-6560
Fax +49 (0)681 302-6561
Scholarships for PhD study in Informatics@Edinburgh
INFORMATICS is the study of information and computation, in both natural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range of scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and social impact. The University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics possesses a combination of breadth and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide. It is the only department to have achieved the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest research group in this area. We currently have around 270 students studying for PhD, and around 140 for MSc.
PHD STUDY is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:
ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems ****this is where we do most of our language work
ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
FOR MUCH MORE INFORMATION and a list of potential PhD research topics see http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd-advert.html
APPLY by mid-March or earlier if possible. Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed by mid-February. Chinese applicants who are interested in funding from the China Scholarship Council should apply by late January.
PhD positions in Language, Interaction and Computation
Labels: computation, phdhttp://www.cimec.unitn.it/
The Language, Interaction & Computation track is offered by CLIC, an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying verbal and non-verbal communication using both computational and cognitive methods.
http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/
Areas of particular interest include:
* The study of the use of semantic and encyclopedic knowledge in communication. We try to connect work of a theoretical nature in linguistics and computer science (formal linguistics, lexical semantics, ontological modeling) with empirical data-intensive approaches based on statistics and text mining (lexical acquisition from textual data and multimodal sources) as well as behavioral and neuroscientific evidence on conceptual representation in the mind/brain.
* The study of multimodal communication, in which agents communicate using (and keeping in mind what is expressed with) a variety of expressive means that go from verbal expressions to
gestures as well as in the direction of a look, and that can also use images and diagrams. Both the cognitive/linguistic aspects of this type of communication as well as the possible technological applications are studied in various types of interfaces.
The latest Call of the Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences has been announced and is available, with application details, at the page:
http://www.cimec.unitn.it/education.php
Deadline for applications: March 14th, 2008
The PhD program is taught in English by an international faculty, For more details, visit the page above or contact:
phd.cimec@unitn.it.
For more details on CLIC, visit http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/ or contact marco.baroni@unitn.it