2015 Openings ( Internships and PhD Fellowships )

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) is looking for top-candidates for funded research internships and PhD research fellowships. Candidates should have background at least in one of the following areas:

  • Signal Processing for Speech and BioSignals
  • Automatic Speech Recognition
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Dialog Modeling and Systems
  • Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Mobile Conversational Agents, Intelligent Systems, Speech/Text Document Mining and Summarization, Human Behavior Understanding, Crowd Computing and ICT applications to teaching and learning. Visit lab page and demos.

The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to research, attracting researchers from disciplines such as Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Machine Learning.

For more info on the research carried out, visit the lab website.

The official language ( research and teaching ) of the department is English.

STUDENT FELLOWSHIP:

Gross amount for research interns and PhD students  is circa 1,600/month. Students benefit from reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria reduced rates. For more information about please visit the graduate school website.

DEADLINES:

Immediate openings, open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS:

Master level degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics or similar disciplines. Students with other background (Physics, Applied Math) may apply as well. Background in at least one of the posted research areas is preferable. All applicants should have good very programming, math skills and used to project team work.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested applicants should send their 1) CV along with 2) their statement of research interest and 3) have three reference letters sent to:

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it

For more info:

Lab web page: https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

PhD School : https://ict.unitn.it/

Department : https://disi.unitn.it/

Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI)

DISI has a strong focus on Interdisciplinarity with professors from different faculties of the University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics, Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) with international background. DISI aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the various research areas in order to develop innovative methods and technologies, applications and advanced services.

University of Trento

The University of Trento is constantly ranked as premiere Italian university institution.

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

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