PhD position - ML

[marting...@gmail.com]

Dear colleagues,

The People-Centered Computing Lab in the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, is looking for a candidate for a 4-year PhD-student position in machine learning (ML). The position is funded by an SNF Ambizione project. Dr. Martin Gjoreski and Prof. Marc Langheinrich will be the co-supervisors. The project includes collaborations with leading research groups from MIT (US), Cambridge (UK), Melbourne (AU), and UNIGE (CH). As part of the project, the Ph.D. student will work on the development of novel methods for “Privacy-aware domain adaptation.” 

The Ph.D. position is full-time, with a competitive salary and social security insurance. Per Swiss regulations, Ph.D. student salaries range from CHF 47'040 (gross) in the first year to CHF 50'040 (gross) in the last year. Apart from performing research, the faculty’s Ph.D. program also expects students to complete coursework and acquire teaching experience.

Application deadline: 1^st September 2023 (envisioned project start: 1^st January 2024). Notifications will be sent by the 29^th of September, 2023.

For more information, please check: https://pc.inf.usi.ch/uncategorized/ph-d-position-on-privacy-aware-domain-adaptation-in-affective-and-wearable-computing-in-lugano-switzerland-application-deadline-september-1-2023/