Conversational Artificial Intelligence includes the following research areas:

- Natural Language Processing
- Conversational Modeling and Systems
- Machine Learning
- Affective Computing

The SIS Lab has been training intelligent machines and evaluating AI-based systems in the last three decades in many industry sectors from fintech to health.

The lab research team is interdisciplinary and attracts researchers from computational linguistics, psychology, applied math, biomedical and  electrical engineering and computer science.

Research projects and demos can be found at the lab website  here .

The candidates should have strong background, past achievement records in the areas of Conversational Research and/or Engineering.

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

AVAILABLE POSITIONS

1. Six months funded research fellowships: approximately 1600 Euro/month gross amount .
2. Three-year funded Phd fellowships: approximately 1600 Euro/month gross amount .

For more information about cost of living in the area
please visit the website .

DEADLINES

Openings with start date as early as March 2023.
Positions open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS

MANDATORY ( for both positions )
- Master degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning or
similar or related disciplines.
- Excellent  academic records
- Excellent programming skills
- Excellent command of oral and written English
- Good knowledge of most of the following: experimental design methodology and statistics,
natural language processing , machine learning methods
- Excellent team-work skills

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should mention the position they are applying and send their CV to:

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it
For more info:

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab
The PhD School
The Department Information Engineering and Computer Science Department @ University of Trento

You may have enjoyed reading about bots, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital assistants, systems that support doctors, teachers, customers and help people.
Then, you would like to consider taking a front row seat and join the research team that has been training intelligent machines and evaluating AI-based systems for more than two decades, collaborating with best research labs in the world and deployed them in the real-world.

Here  is a sample of the projects the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) has been leading:

-Natural Language Understanding systems for massive amount of human language data:
https://www.sensei-conversation.eu

-Amazon Alexa challenge on Conversational Systems:
https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/university-of-trento-is-selected-by-amazon-for-the-alexa-challenge/

-Designing AI personal agents for healthcare domain:
https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/pha/

We collaborate and interact with international research labs, companies and startups from different sectors to create the vision of next-generation AI-based systems.

We are looking for top-candidates for its funded PhD research fellowships.
Candidates should have background at least in one of the following areas:

• (Bio)Signal Processing
• Speech Processing
• Natural Language Understanding
• Conversational Systems
• Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Conversational Agents, Intelligent Systems, Speech/Text Document Mining and Summarization, Human Behavior Understanding, Crowd Computing and AI-based systems for tutoring.
For more info on research and projects visit the lab website
Visit lab website at https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

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

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

FELLOWSHIP

Gross amount of the fellowships ( internship and PhD ) is competitive and approximately 1.600 Euro/month.
Students may qualify for reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria reduced rates.

For more information about cost of living, campus, graduate education programs, please visit the graduate school website at https://ict.unitn.it/

DEADLINES

Immediate openings with start date as early as March 2018. Open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS

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

HOW TO APPLY

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

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it
For more info:

Signals and Interactive Systems Lab : 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 cross-disciplinarity 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, technologies and applications.

University of Trento

The University of Trento is consistently ranked as premiere Italian university institution.
See https://www.unitn.it/en/node/1636/mid/2573

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

Candidates should have background at least in one of the following areas:

- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Speech Processing
- Natural Language Understanding
- Dialog Modeling and Systems
- Machine Learning

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

A sample of the projects students will be working on are:

- Language Understanding Systems for massive amount of human language data:
htto://www.sensei-conversation.eu

- Latest challenge on Artificial Intelligence SIS Lab has been selected for:
https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/university-of-trento-is-selected-by-amazon-for-the-alexa-challenge/

- Designing AI personal agents for healthcare domain and applications:
https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/pha/

For more info on research and projects visit the lab website

Visit lab website at https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

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

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

FELLOWSHIP

Gross amount of the fellowships ( internship and PhD ) is approximately 1.600 Euro/month. Students may qualify for reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria reduced rates.For more information about cost of living, campus, graduate education programs, please visit the graduate school website at https://ict.unitn.it/

DEADLINES

Immediate openings with start date as early as March 2017.  Open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS

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

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should send their

1) CV
2) ONLY For PhD applications, statement of research interest and
3) three reference letters sent to:
Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it

For more info:
Signals and Interactive Systems Lab: 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 cross-disciplinarity 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, technologies and
applications.

University of Trento

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

See https://www.unitn.it/en/node/1636/mid/2573

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

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The candidate will be working with an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, psychologists and internal medicine physicians on an exciting research project titled “SEAL (Stress Analytics) YOUNG STUDY: Evaluation of the Role of Stress, dietary and lifestyle habits on Autonomic and Neuromediated Physiological Responses in young people with higher cardiovascular risk.”

The project is part of ongoing research program aimed at training and developing personal healthcare digital agents led by the University of Trento at the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab.

For more details see https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/pha/

The collaboration between  the University of Torino and the University of Trento aims at training the next-generation of researchers and advance the field of technology-supported healthcare. It aims to combine experimental design in health sciences, human-computer interaction systems, signal processing and machine learning, with the goal of exploring how patient-centric technologies can be used to improve healthcare delivery and management.

Candidates may have diverse background but they should have experience in at least in one of the following areas covered:

- Biomedical and Health Informatics

- Clinical Psychology

- Biomedical Signal Processing

- Machine Learning

-Computational Linguistics

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Visit lab website at https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

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

The  official language of the department is English.

FELLOWSHIP

Gross amount of the PhD fellowships is circa 1.100 Euro/month.

Students may qualify for reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria reduced rates.

For more information  the graduate education program please visit the graduate school website at   https://en.unito.it/postdegree/phd/medical-physiopathology

DEADLINES

Deadline for application is June 20, 2016

ELIGIBILITY

Candidates should hold Master level degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,

Computational Linguistics, Experimental Psychology or similar disciplines from a foreign institution.

Students with other background (Physics, Applied Math) may apply as well. Background in at least one of the posted research areas is  required. All applicants should have good very programming, math skills and used to teamwork.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should send their

1) CV

2) For PhD applications, statement of research interest and

3) three reference letters sent to:

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it

In the subject mention the code PhD-UTOTN

For more info:

Signals and Interactive Systems Lab

https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

PhD School : https://dott-fisiopatologia.campusnet.unito.it/do/home.pl

Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino

https://www.dsm.unito.it/do/home.pl:

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 (Speech and/or BioSignals)
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Natural Language Understanding
• Dialog Modeling and Systems
• Machine Learning

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

Visit lab website at https://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

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

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

FELLOWSHIP

Gross amount of the fellowships ( internship and PhD ) is circa 1.600 Euro/month.
Students may qualify for reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria reduced rates.

For more information about cost of living, campus, graduate education programs, please visit the graduate school website at  https://ict.unitn.it/

DEADLINES

Immediate openings with start date as early as Jan 2016.  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 required. All applicants should have good very programming, math skills and used to team work.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should send their

1. CV
2. For PhD applications, statement of research interest and
3. three reference letters sent to:

Email: sislab@unitn.it

For more info:

Signals and Interactive Systems Lab : 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 cross-disciplinarity 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, technologies and applications.

University of Trento

The University of Trento is ranked as premiere Italian university institution.
See https://www.unitn.it/en/node/1636/mid/2573

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

• 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.

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) is looking for top-candidates for funded PhD research fellowships. We are looking to cover the following areas of interest:

• Signal Processing for Speech and BioSignals
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Natural Language Understanding (Text/Speech/Multimodal)
• Dialog Modeling and Systems (Text/Speech/Multimodal )
• Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Mobile Interactive Agents, Question Answering Systems, Speech/Text Mining, Statistical Machine Translation, 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 Digital Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Machine Learning.

The mission of the lab is to

A) Understand diverse signal ( e.g. speech, text, biosignals, multimodal ) generated by humans in their interactions with machines, humans and complex systems including both.

B) Train and design machines that are able to support humans in their interactions in a social, physical and virtual space.

For more info on the research carried out, visit the lab website: https://sisl.disi.unitn.it.

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

FELLOWSHIP:

Gross amount of the fellowship is 1,607.48/month. PhD 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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

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 and math skills and used to project team work. I

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.

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab ( https://sisl.disi.unitn.it )

is looking for top-candidates to fill a postdoc position at University

of Trento (Italy).

Candidates with significant research experience in at least one of

the following topics are invited two apply:

•  Language Understanding
•  Discourse Parsing
•  Behavioral Signal Processing ( Speech and Text )

The candidate will work with SIS lab members, European and International partners on

un upcoming FP7 European Union funded research project addressing research

on human conversation understanding and summarization in speech and social media.

The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to the

analysis and interpretation of diverse signals ( e.g. speech, text,

biosignals, multimodal ) to support human-human and human-machine

interactive systems. The SIS Lab has state-of-the-art technology

infrastructure and collaborations with premiere national, international

research centers and industry research labs.

For more info SIS lab’s research projects

visit the lab website: https://sisl.disi.unitn.it.

LANGUAGE

The official language of the Department and the lab is English.

SALARY

Postdoc salary are in the range of 30K-40K/year (gross) depending on

background and experience.

Candidates may benefit from tax exemptions.

REQUIREMENTS:

PhD in EE, CS , Computational Linguistics or equivalent.

Very good programming skills, experience in working in project teams,

good knowledge of machine learning techniques and experimental methodologies.

DEADLINE:

Immediate Opening. Open until filled

HOW TO APPLY:

All applicants should have good very programming and math skills and used to project team work. Interested applicants should send their

1) CV along with

2) their transcripts

3) have three reference letters sent to:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it

For more info:

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

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

Local Information: https://international.unitn.it/welcome-services/cost-living

University of Trento

The University of Trento (www.unitn.it) is constantly ranked as

premiere Italian graduate and undergraduate university institution.

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) is looking for top-candidates for funded research internships.We are looking to cover the following areas of interest:

• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Language Understanding (Text/Speech/Multimodal)
• Dialog Modeling and Systems (Text/Speech/Multimodal )
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Mobile Interactive Agents, Question Answering Systems, Speech/Text Mining, Statistical Machine Translation, Behavioral Signal Understanding, Crowd Computing and ICT applications to teaching and learning. Check some of past and current research project at https://sisl.disi.unitn.it and demos.

The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and interpretation of diverse signals ( e.g. speech, text, biosignals, multimodal ) to support human-human and human-machine interaction. The SIS Lab has state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and collaborations with premiere national, international research centers and industry research labs. The successful candidates will be conducting research on one research topic or contributing to lab-wide research projects.

For more info on some of the research projects visit the lab website: https://sisl.disi.unitn.it.

The official language of the department is English.

DURATION and ACCOMODATION

Master level degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar disciplines. Students with other background (Physics, Applied Math) may apply. PhD 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

HOW TO APPLY:

Background in at least one of the posted research areas is preferable. All applicants should have good very programming and math skills and used to project team work. 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/

University of Trento

The University of Trento (ww.unitn.it) is constantly ranked as premiere Italian university institution.

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

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.

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) is looking for top-candidates for funded research internships.We are looking to cover the following areas of interest: Automatic Speech Recognition

• Language Understanding (Text/Speech/Multimodal)
• Dialog Modeling (Text/Speech/Multimodal )
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Mobile Interactive Agents, Question Answering Systems, Speech/Text Mining, Statistical Machine Translation, Behavioral Signal Understanding, Crowd Computing and ICT applications to teaching and learning.

Research internships are great opportunities to get familiar with the wide rage of research in the lab and get introduced to the department graduate school research programs. Check some of past projects students have worked and follow this link.

The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and interpretation of diverse signals ( e.g. speech, text, biosignals, multimodal ) to support human-human and human-machine interaction. The SIS Lab has state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and collaborations with premiere national, international research centers and industry research labs. The successful candidates will be conducting research on one research topic or contributing to lab-wide research projects.

For more info on some of the research projects visit the lab website: https://sisl.disi.unitn.it.

The official language of the department is English.

DURATION and ACCOMODATION

Internship duration is for 10 weeks with a possibility of extension. Research interns may benefit from tax benefits, reduced campus lodging and cafeteria reduced rates.

DEADLINES:

Open until filled

HOW TO APPLY:

Background in at least one of the posted research areas is preferable. All applicants should have good very programming and math skills and used to project team work. 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/

University of Trento

The University of Trento (ww.unitn.it) is constantly ranked as premiere Italian university institution.

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.

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.