POSTDOC JOB OPENING UPDATE (May 1998)
The recent postdoc job (recurrent neural networks, speech, LSTM) went to
Fred Cummins.
IDSIA's search committee would like
to thank the 60+ serious applicants.
To our great regret we had to reject
some highly qualified individuals.
What a pity that our budget is limited.
We do wish all the applicants the best
for their future carreers.
It is possible that there will be additional
job openings in the future (e.g., in reinforcement learning and
evolutionary computation).
In case you are interested
we will be happy to put you on a preliminary list of candidates.
Please send
HARDCOPIES (no email!) of CV, list of
publications, cover letter, and your 3 best papers (if applicable) to
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900-Lugano, Switzerland.
Also send a brief email message including your home page link
and email addresses of three
references to juergen@idsia.ch. Please use your full name as subject
header. EXAMPLE: subject: John_Smith
IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement
learning,
complexity and generalization issues,
unsupervised learning and information theory,
forecasting, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation.
IDSIA is small but visible, competitive, and influential.
Algorithms developed by IDSIA researchers hold the world records for
several important operations research problems. In the recent
"X-Lab Survey" by Business Week magazine,
IDSIA
was ranked in fourth place in the category "COMPUTER SCIENCE -
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED" - after the Santa Fe Institute,
Stanford University, and EPFL (also in Switzerland).
Its comparatively tiny size notwithstanding, IDSIA also ranked among
the top ten labs
worldwide in the broader category "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE".
SWITZERLAND tends to be nice to scientists. It boasts the highest
supercomputing capacity pc (per capita), the most Nobel prizes pc
(450 % of the US value), the highest income pc, and the best chocolate.
LOCATION: the beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino, the scenic
southernmost province of Switzerland
(pictures).
Milano,
Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away, Venice 3 hours.
CSCS, the Ticino supercomputing center, is nearby - we have a direct
connection.
SALARY: commensurate with experience - around SFR 60-70K/year (US$
41-48K). Subtract ~20% for taxes & social security. There is travel
funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences.
Juergen Schmidhuber, research director, IDSIA
juergen@idsia.ch
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen
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