PhD student and Postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland

[Indrė Žliobaitė]

I am looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to work on žMachine
learning methods for analyzing biospheric change. This is about concept
drift over evolutionary times. More below.

regards,
Indrė

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Applications are invited for a four-year PhD student position and a
three-year Postdoc position in a research project on “Machine learning
methods for analyzing biospheric change” lead by Prof. Indrė Žliobaitė,
funded by the Academy of Finland. The positions are at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Helsinki.

Understanding the biospheric change processes and their causal
mechanisms is one of the fundamental questions in science, also
attracting massive public attention. The goal of this project is to
develop new predictive modeling techniques for global scale analysis of
environmental change based on characteristics animal communities
preserved as fossils over the last 20 million years and beyond. This
presents two interesting and generic machine learning challenges: data
are not in a flat format but form multiple instances, and data
distribution is severely changing over evolutionary time scales (severe
concept drift).

The PhD student will develop tailored advanced machine learning
solutions in this context, among other data sources, working with and
contributing to the global fossil mammal database (NOW). The Postdoc
will work closely with collaborators in vegetation and climate modeling
to extract and analyze patterns from remote sensing data and climate
models of present day world.

Requirements: for PhD candidates – track record in carrying out data
analysis/ computational method development, demonstrated by a completed
master thesis, internship or own project; for Postdoc candidates –
experience in machine learning with remote sensing data.

Interested candidates are invited to apply by the 15th of August, 2018.
Please send your CV and a brief letter outlining your interests to Indrė
Žliobaitė (indre.zliobaite @ helsinki.fi).