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Scroll down for more info on IDSIA and Switzerland
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One senior position is filled
(thanks to several great candidates for their efforts)!
But another one will open soon, and we'll keep evaluating applications.
Jürgen Schmidhuber, 2007
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Senior Researcher Position at IDSIA
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Possible start: 2007, with a 2 year probation period.
Salary:
Commensurate with experience -
roughly SFR 85,000 per year, or US$ 70,000 as of March 2007.
Low taxes.
There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences.
The new Senior will have big shoes to fill:
Previous IDSIA Seniors
include Marco Dorigo, father of the widely used
Artificial Ants
algorithms (working with Luca Gambardella),
and Marcus Hutter,
father of the
asymptotically fastest algorithm
for all well-defined problems.
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We are seeking an outstanding
researcher (professor or postdoc)
with experience / interest in topics such as:
sequence learning algorithms,
statistical approaches to machine learning,
graphical models,
adaptive robotics,
artificial intelligence,
recurrent neural networks (RNN),
sequential active vision,
hidden Markov models, dynamic Bayes nets and other Bayesian approaches,
universal learning machines,
Kolmogorov complexity /
algorithmic information theory,
artificial evolution,
in particular
RNN evolution,
support vector machines
(especially recurrent ones),
reinforcement learning,
curiosity- driven learning.
Candidates are expected to build their own little
research group by acquiring grants from Swiss or
EU funding agencies.
Willingness to
occasionally teach a relevant course at nearby Univ. Lugano
could be a plus. The official language at IDSIA is English.
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Applicants should submit as soon as possible:
(i) Curriculum vitae including a list of previous grants (if any),
(ii) List of three references and their email addresses,
(iii) Brief statement on how their research interests fit the topics
to the left.
Submit your application in plain ASCII format (plain text files!)
by email to juergen@idsia.ch.
Small PDF attachments are ok (but no .doc files, please).
Do NOT send large files; instead send URLs.
In the subject header, please
mention your name and the keyword senior2007.
For example, if your name is John Smith, use
subject: John Smith senior2007.
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other
IDSIA
jobs:
postdoc
& Phd
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IDSIA's research focuses on
combinatorial optimization and artificial ants,
artificial recurrent neural networks,
learning robots,
universal
predictors and reinforcement learners,
optimal
universal search
algorithms
(e.g.,
Gödel machine
&
OOPS),
complexity and generalization issues,
unsupervised learning and information theory,
forecasting,
evolutionary computation.
IDSIA is small but visible, competitive, and influential.
Its algorithms hold the world records for
several important operations research benchmarks (e.g.,
see NATURE 406(6791):39-42 for
an overview of IDSIA's artificial ant algorithms).
Some of IDSIA's results were reviewed not only in
science journals such as Nature, Science, Scientific American,
but also in the popular press, including TIME magazine, the New York Times,
der SPIEGEL, and many others.
IDSIA has strong ties to the
TU Munich lab of cognitive robotics
at TUM Computer Science.
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Switzerland is a good place for scientists.
It is the origin of special relativity (1905) and the
World Wide Web (1990), is associated with 105 Nobel laureates,
boasts by far the most Nobel prizes per capita (350% more than the US),
the world's highest number of publications per capita,
the highest number of patents per capita,
the highest citation impact factor,
the
most cited single-author paper ever, etc.
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IDSIA is located near the beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino
(pictures),
the scenic southernmost province of Switzerland.
Milano, Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away, Venice 3 hours.
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