Postdoc Position on Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) for next generation visual inspection at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT - Genova) - [ Postdoc ] 76750
Workplace: Genova, IIT, Italy

The Visual Geometry and Modelling (VGM, https://vgm.iit.it/) Research Line at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) invites qualified applicants to submit their CV’s for a Postdoc position in Genova, Italy under the supervision of Dr. Alessio Del Bue.

The VGM mission is to provide computational tools for the digitisation, interpretation and understanding of large-scale 3D information extracted from multi-sensor inputs (video, audio, thermal cameras, IMU and other sources). The scientific core of the VGM Lab is related to the research fields of Computer Vision, Signal Processing and Machine Learning with the primary goal to provide algorithms for:
• Dynamic 3D scene understanding from video and RGBD data;
• Representation and Interpretation of 3D data using semantic and contextual information;
• Large-scale data understanding and modelling for Life Science and Engineering.
The Lab expertise is also applied to several practical and challenging problems in the industry with ongoing collaboration with world-leading companies in machine vision, robotics, automation, energy, avionics, photonics and fashion industries.

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Open post-doc positions in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Deusto (Spain) (Deadline 12 June)

The DeustoTech Institute (http://deustotech.deusto.es/) from the
University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) is looking for post-doc researchers
in Artificial Intelligence. The positions are directed to promising
young researchers. Applications from women are especially welcomed.

Concretely we are inviting Expressions of Interest from potential
international postdoctoral researchers who are interested in applying
for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowships (IFs). These
fellowships offer the most talented and promising researchers the
opportunity to enhance their career development and prospects through
advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility. If
successful, the MSCA-IF will provide a competitive salary (an allowance
to cover living, mobility and family costs) and an allocation for
research, training and networking costs of the researcher.

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Research Fellow in MRI Royal Holloway, University of London - Psychology Department

Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow in MRI, in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London. This post represents part of a major programme of investment into our MRI research portfolio. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving forward methods capability in the MRI unit, retaining an in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of advanced neuroimaging methods, and supporting users in the design and analysis of (f)MRI studies. S/he may also make a limited contribution to MRI methods teaching and supervision of advanced student projects.

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Postdoctoral Research: Characterizing watershed-scale surface water storage effects on water quality and quantity

We are excited to share a second postdoctoral research opportunity to investigate, characterize, and quantify (via statistical, geospatial, and/or hydrological models) the role of landscape surface water storage features (e.g., wetlands, floodplains) and their associated hydrological and biogeochemical functions on downstream water quality. This competitive postdoctoral opportunity is with Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education and is located at US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development in Cincinnati, Ohio. This position will complement the postdoctoral research position posted earlier this spring (now closed), for which we’re currently reviewing candidates.

Application period ends at 3:00 PM ET on July 18th, 2019. Please share with those who may be interested.

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Scientia PhD Scholarship for a 2020 Start at UNSW Canberra, Australia

The word Scientia means "knowledge based on demonstrable and reproducible data" (Merriam-Webster dictionary). The term sits at the heart of this particular PhD project.

UNSW Australia has launched a global drive to recruit 700 exceptional PhD students over the next 10 years.

This prestigious PhD scholarship is fully funded and offers a significant stipend to the successful applicant. The UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarships were established to attract the best research students to UNSW to work on cutting-edge game-changer topics.

This prestigious scholarship offers $41,209 stipend per annum for four years. In addition, a travel and development support package up to $10,000 per annum. For International Students, the scholarship will also include tuition scholarship which waves the fees.

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Scientia PhD Scholarship for a 2020 Start at UNSW Sydney, Australia

Real-time Cognitive Load Measures to Improve Trust in Autonomous Systems

The word Scientia means "knowledge based on demonstrable and reproducible data" (Merriam-Webster dictionary). The term sits at the heart of this particular PhD project.
UNSW Australia has launched a global drive to recruit 700 exceptional PhD students over the next 10 years.
This prestigious PhD scholarship is fully funded and offers a significant stipend to the successful applicant. The UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarships were established to attract the best research students to UNSW to work on cutting-edge game-changer topics.
This prestigious scholarship offers $41,209 stipend per annum for four years. In addition, a travel and development support package up to $10,000 per annum. For International Students, the scholarship will also include tuition scholarship which waves the fees.
Detailed guidelines for the Scholarship can be found at https://www.scientia.unsw.edu.au/scientia-phd-scholarships
The university deadline for 2020 applications is 12th of July 2019. Make sure you contact the supervisors well before this deadline. The actual application process requires a detailed research plan and more information that needs coordination with the supervisors in advance.

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1 post-doc position on Crosslingual word embeddings and knowledge extraction

Want a postdoc in a historical town by the Atlantic Ocean? 10 minutes on foot from the lab to the beach? We have open positions in 2 Horizon 2020 projects: Embeddia and NewsEye. Please get in touch with Antoine Doucet at the conference and/or feel free to drop an email.
Location: L3i laboratory, La Rochelle, France (the other side of the street)

Duration: 2 years, with possible extension

Net salary range: 2100€-2300 € monthly

Context: H2020 Embeddia project


Keywords: any-language approaches, word embeddings, named-entity recognition and linking, multilingual event detection, deep/machine learning, statistical NLP, (text) data mining

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PhD Scholarships in Molecular Dissection of Pathomechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease

Queensland Brain Institute
The Queensland Brain Institute works to understand the development, organisation and function of the brain. We aim to understand the neural circuits in the brain, how their function results in behavioural outcomes, and how dysfunction of these circuits leads to disorders such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia. We aim to (1) Develop novel therapeutic approaches to treat disorders of neural function and (2) Use our understanding of brain function to improve learning in classrooms and in the workplace.

Established in 2003, QBI (www.qbi.uq.edu.au) is housed on the St Lucia campus of UQ. It is home to more than 450 staff and students, including 41 group leaders.

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PhD Scholarship on The Project 'changes in Species Communities Role of Climate Change Human Land Use and Community Complexity'

The Finnish Museum of Natural History, Luomus, (www.luomus.fi/en) is an independent institute of the University of Helsinki, which is constituted to keep, augment, and display the national natural history collections, and to carry out research and teaching related to these. The Zoology Unit of Luomus is responsible for the zoological collections and long-term biodiversity monitoring data. The Unit carries out research in systematics, biogeography, and conservation biology, and has c. 40 employed staff members.

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Postdoc Fellow in The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law

Applicants for this Post-doctoral Fellowship in CMEL to be appointed by the Faculty of Law should possess a Ph.D. degree in Law, Medicine, Philosophy or any field in Humanities/Social Sciences related to Medical Ethics and Law or any other related discipline. Those who do not yet have a Ph.D. degree but are close to completion will also be considered. They are expected to show evidence of the potential to produce excellent research. Applicants should have excellent written and spoken English skills. Proficiency in written and spoken Chinese would be an advantage. They must be able to work independently, professionally, and to a high standard under time constraints.

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Research Fellow at Imperial College London

A Research Fellow position is available in the Centre for Environmental Policy within the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. The position will be based in the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), one of the UK’s leading centres for research and policy advice at the interface of energy policy and technology. The Opportunities for Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Development (OPTIMISM) project is funded by...

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Multiple vacancies: fully funded PhD studentships and postdoc positions

We are soliciting applications for multiple fully-funded PhD student vacancies in the FORSIED research group. Applications by top postdoctoral candidates will be considered as well.

Topics of interest:

Network and knowledge graph embedding.
Visual analytics, information visualization.
Representation learning.
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction (variants of UMAP, t-SNE,…).
Data mining algorithms on graphs / networks.
Topological data analysis.
Recommender systems.
Natural language processing (word embedding, conversational agents).
Deep learning approaches for these tasks.
Privacy, fairness, and explainability in machine learning and data science.
Applications to areas including biology (single-cell data), human resources (job-applicant matching), media and entertainment (catalog management).
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For PhD applicants:

Required:
A relevant Master’s degree (data science, artificial intelligence, computer science, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics).
Top-of-class performance (at least top 5% from top-100 institutes, at least top-1% from other institutes).
Three positive reference letters (solicited by us, no need to include these in your application).
Proven programming experience in Python.
English language level: C1 (CEFR), 95 (TOEFL), 7 (IELTS), or assessed as equivalent during the interview.
A solid background in at least three of the following: linear algebra; machine learning; deep learning; information theory; advanced algorithms; data mining; topological data analysis; information visualization / visual analytics; human computer interaction; recommender systems; natural language processing; privacy, fairness, and explainability in data science and machine learning.
Desired:
Strong programming skills in Python and other languages as proven by open source software projects.
Experience with machine learning frameworks (pytorch, keras, etc).
Experience with Spark.
Prior publications in top conferences or journals.
For Postdoctoral research positions:

Required:
Same as for PhD positions, additionally including:
A strong publication track record (in top conferences and journals such as ICLR, KDD, NeurIPS, VIS, ICML, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE PAMI, JMLR, Machine Learning journal, etc.) on one of the relevant topics.
An eagerness to co-advise PhD and Master student projects.
Context:

These positions are funded in the context of three large research projects:

A large (EUR 1.6M) European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, FORSIED.
A large (EUR 2.1M) FWO Odysseus Group I grant.
A substantial investment (EUR 12M annually) by the Flemish government in AI research, within which we play a leading role.
The research team currently consists of around 10 researchers, and is led by Prof. Tijl De Bie. The reputation of our research team is evidenced by substantial amounts of prestigious funding, high impact publications, and the organization of major international conferences in the area, including as general and program chairs. It is embedded within the IDLab of Ghent University, as well as the UGent Artificial Intelligence institute.

Ghent University:

Ghent University is the largest university in Belgium, and a leading research-intensive university world-wide, ranking consistently within the top-100 in international rankings that value research.

The city of Ghent in Belgium, at the heart of Europe:

Belgium is a small country at the heart of Europe, benefiting from one of the best social security and healthcare systems in the world.
Ghent is a picturesque historical but vibrant town, with an international mindset and an active startup scene. It is home to a large expat community. You will find it easy to get around speaking just English.
Brussels (30 mins), Amsterdam (2 hours), Paris (2.5 hours), London (3 hours) are all within a short train ride’s distance.

Application procedure:

Applications are welcome until all positions are filled. A first cut-off date is Sunday 23 June, with Skype interviews scheduled to take place end of June and early July. To be considered, applications must include:

A Concise CV (any format).
A motivation letter (~1 page).
A list of 3 referees with their contact details, and whether they can be already contacted.
For PhD applicants: a trannoscript of your Masters degree.
Applications should be sent by email to tijl.debie@ugent.be. IMPORTANT NOTE: the subject line of your email should be structured as follows (whichever applies):

“[PhD application 2019] first name, last name”
“[Postdoc application 2019] first name, last name”
Emails with different subject lines will probably be overlooked.

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Funded postdoc in developmental neurobiology, U Mass-Amherst

The Pallas lab will be moving from Georgia State University to the University of Massachusetts- Amherst in summer 2019. We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc who is well-trained in electrophysiological approaches to understanding development and plasticity of mammalian visual function. Our interests include: the roles of patterning genes and neural activity in directing the construction of the synaptic connectivity responsible for visual perception; the mechanisms that allow recovery of visual function following injury or sensory deprivation; the regulation of critical periods of synaptic plasticity; and the evolution of developmental mechanisms. Our approaches include in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology, pharmacological manipulation of neural activity, imaging of neurons and neural pathways, gene and protein expression assays, manipulation of gene expression using viral vectors, use of transgenic and knockout mice, and behavioral assays of perception. The successful candidate will receive strong mentoring by a supportive PI. ...

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Research Fellow Position in Seizure Prediction

We have a Research Fellow opening through a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and Monash University for someone to develop and crowdsource machine learning and data science approaches to solving seizure prediction. Seizure prediction will enable the generation of warnings so a person with epilepsy can move to safety, or activation of electrical stimulation or drug delivery to prevent seizures. Our team leverages unique long-term human brain activity data to find novel, clinically relevant solutions to seizure prediction, and publishes these findings in the highest impact neurology journals (Lancet Neurology, Nature Reviews Neurology, Nature Neuroscience, Brain, PNAS).

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at University of Helsinki

for a three-year fixed-term period (the starting date of which can be negotiated) in the area of applied interaction design, data science, or digital humanities. Particularly, we desire people whose interests would align with developing tools and workflows to study complex phenomena in massive collections of text and structured data. Application areas include how the relationship between politics and media has developed in the 21st century, how claims to fame are argued in EU food origin protection requests, what the geographical and dialectical distribution of themes in folk poetry is, how the public sphere developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and more.

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Post-doctoral Fellow in Embedded Information Processing

The research group on Computer Engineering (https://www.tec.ee.ethz.ch), as a part of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (https://ee.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology https://www.ethz.ch), has an opening for a post-doctoral fellow. The Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory offers a creative international environment, a possibility to conduct highly competitive research on a global scale and involvement in teaching.
Post-doctoral Fellow in Embedded Information Processing
The position is devoted to scientific research in the area of embedded information processing, in particular for applications in mobile systems, internet of things, cyberphysical systems or sensor networks. The research is driven by our installations at several field sites in high alpine regions (permafrost research and early warning) as well as air pollution monitoring, but also involves diverse applications on a much smaller scale. Our current research focus relates to fundamental challenges like highly dependable wireless protocols, embedded machine learning and edge computing, and low energy data processing and decision-making.

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Postdoctoral position Mechanisms of Inflammation

A postdoctoral position is available in Fabio Martinon's laboratoryat the Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne(UNIL), Switzerland.( http://www.unil.ch/central/en/home.html ).

The Department of Biochemistry is part of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine and offers an outstanding environment for a successful postdoctoral career. The research campus is located in Epalinges (north of Lausanne), and is part of the Center of Immunity and Infection (CIIL) that also includes the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and several groups of the Lausanne University Hospital CHUV. The research focus is on Cell biology, Immunology and Cancer.

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PhD Position in Heart Rate Variability, Dynamics and Control During Exercise (SNSF)

This project will investigate the natural, physiological phenomenon known as heart rate variability (HRV). HRV arises from the regulatory activities of the autonomic nervous system which causes fluctuations in heart rate (HR) over short and long timescales. It is important to better understand the characteristics of HRV, and to develop accurate and robust systems for automatic control of HR for various exercise modalities such as cycle ergometry and treadmill exercise. This is because HR is a convenient-to-use variable that is widely adopted to characterise exercise intensity and to prescribe exercise-training and rehabilitation programmes.

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Postdoctoral position in ancient plant genomics in ERC-funded project TIMBER

The project
The project ‘TIMBER’ Northern Europe's timber resource - chronology, origin and exploitation, led by Aoife Daly, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677152). In this project, timber in Northern Europe is being studied, to attain a precise chronology for trade of timber over a long time period (c. 1100 to 1700). Using material and textual evidence to identify the source of timber (provenance) the aim is to map the trade in this construction material and to show the regional and temporal fluctuations in timber exploitation and availability. Using a multi-disciplinary approach (archaeological analysis, archival research and a range of archaeological sciences) on a variety of specific case studies, the team is working together to analyse the sources and destinations of traded timber through time.

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PhD position in Faculty of Educational Sciences

The internationally esteemed Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki is Finland’s leading unit of research and teaching in educational sciences and teacher education. The aim of the Faculty’s research and teaching is to optimally realise the cultural and social potential of people for the benefit of individuals and humanity.

The Faculty of Educational Sciences invites applications for the position of
DOCTORAL STUDENT

The appointment is for a fixed term (1 September 2019–30 August 2022).

The duties of the doctoral student include dissertation work and the completion of doctoral studies. The doctoral student will carry out research related to education in the Connected Classroom Nordic (CCN) project. CCN is part of the Nordic Centre of Excellence: Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT), funded by NordForsk

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