Original announcement: Thanks to generous gifts by Google DeepMind and by NVIDIA to Jürgen Schmidhuber's group at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and thanks to a new SNF grant on deep learning-based video analysis, we can now offer additional jobs for postdocs and PhD students. (Recently we had job openings for the related RNNAIssance project.) We specifically invite applications from people with postdoc experience.

We are looking for outstanding candidates with experience / interest in topics such as deep learning neural networks, video analysis, RNNs and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), meta-learning or "learning to learn learning algorithms", evolutionary computation, RNN evolution, compressed network search, reinforcement learning (RL) for robots in realistic partially observable environments where traditional RL (for board games etc) does not work, unsupervised learning, curiosity-driven learning and the Formal Theory of Fun & Creativity, hierarchical reinforcement learning, general artificial intelligence, universal learning machines, search for programs running on general purpose computers such as RNNs (see our NIPS RNN Symposium), and "learning to think." (You will also collaborate with other lab members on other projects - we are one big family!)

The general goal is to advance the state of the art in machine learning and AI. Preferred start: Soon. Duration for postdocs: initially for 2 years, with possibility of prolongation.

INSTRUCTIONS: Submit your CV, a brief statement of research interests explaining why exactly you'd like to work with us, and a list of 3 references and their email addresses to rnnai@idsia.ch. (Do not send articles or transcripts or other large files - they will be deleted.) In the subject header, mention your full name followed by the keyword rnnai, and add "PhD" in case of PhD students, or add "postdoc" in case of postdocs. For example, if your name is Jo Mo, and you are applying as a PhD student, use subject: Jo Mo rnnai PhD. As a PhD student, you must also submit your full application to SUPSI through this PHD ONLINE FORM. As a postdoc, you must submit it through this POSTDOC ONLINE FORM. (We might re-open these forms again later).

PhD student salary: Initially CHF 46'000 per year. Standard postdoc salary: CHF 80'000 per year. Low Swiss taxes. There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences. There are also exciting connections to the world of AI startups.

There is an opportunity to participate in teaching courses (in English) on machine learning, in Switzerland's first A.I. Master's degree program at the University of Lugano.

Requirements are also published within the "Direttive interne SUPSI" (direttiva 7A, Art. 2) and within "Regolamento del personale SUPSI" on the website www.supsi.ch (follow SUPSI, Documenti ufficiali). Official language at IDSIA is English.