French ANR-funded Ph.D. thesis on speech source separation for aircraft cockpit speech transcription

[Matthieu Puigt]

Dear colleagues,

a PhD position is open for applications at Université of Littoral Côte d'Opale, in Northern France, to work on speech source separation for aircraft cockpit recordings.

   - Topic: Human-in-the-Loop Audio Source Separation for Aircraft Cockpit Recordings - full details at https://www-lisic.univ-littoral.fr/~puigt/temp/These_ANR_BLeRIOT_2025.pdf.

   - Host laboratory: Computer Science, Signal and Image processing Laboratory (LISIC), in its premises in Longuenesse.

   - Funding: French National Research Agency (ANR) within the BLeRIOT project.

   - Remuneration: around 2200€ gross for the first year.
  
   - Duration: 36 months.
  
   - Starting date: flexible but as soon as possible from January 2025.

   - National collaboration:  The PhD student will work in close collaboration with all the ANR BLeRIOT partners, i.e., BEA, RESEDA, and IRIT.  

   - Pre-requisites: MSc diploma or equivalent in data science, signal processing or applied mathematics. Good background in linear algebra and optimization. Applicants must be French or citizens of Member State of the European Union, or of a State forming part of the European Economic Area, or of the Swiss Confederation.

   - Application: please send CV, motivation letter, BSc and MSc grade transcripts, and at least two recommendation letters or means of contact of two academic references to matthieu.puigt [at] univ-littoral.fr

   - Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

   Please don't hesitate to inform any students with good academic records who may be interested.