Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University, in affiliation with the Vector Institute

[sageev]

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Machine Learning / Deep Learning in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and affiliated with the Vector Institute (Toronto, Canada). The position is renewable up to 3 years.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will be working primarily with Dr. Sageev Oore and/or Dr. Thomas Trappenberg.

The Fellow’s primary appointment will be at Dalhousie University, and they will also have the opportunity to spend time at the Vector Institute. The successful candidate will be encouraged to collaborate with and supervise students, collaborate with other members of the Faculty and the Vector Institute, engage in state-of-the-art research, and publish at the highest international level.

While there is interest in projects related to natural language modeling, audio and music processing, computational creativity (e.g. music/art/language generation and understanding), visualization and medical applications, the Fellow will have freedom to propose work on research topics of their own interest related to machine learning and deep learning.

Requirements

A Ph.D. in Computer Science or in a related field is required; candidates who have excelled in a closely-related area and are looking to move into deep learning or machine learning are also encouraged to apply. A strong publication record is required. Candidates must demonstrate expertise in a core area of machine learning, including but not limited to deep, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, optimization; and/or one or more areas related to applied machine learning, including but not limited to creative applications (music, images, text), language, audio, health, medicine, transportation, visualization and finance.

How to apply

More information on the position, including the required application form, is available at

https://www.dal.ca/faculty/gradstudies/postdoctoral/prospective/hill.html

https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/fgs/postdoctoral/donald_hill_compguidelines.pdf

https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/fgs/postdoctoral/donald_hill_application_extended.pdf

(Note that there is possibility of a salary top-up beyond the amount listed in the documents above).

Applications should be received by Friday, Feb 23.

If you are interested, you are encouraged to contact Sageev Oore in advance of the deadline at first...@dal.ca, (where first_name is sageev) indicating your intention to apply, and include a CV & brief description of your current research interests, with “Hill PDF” as the subject line of your email.