2013 PhD Research Fellowship Openings (CLOSED)
2013 PhD Research Fellowship Openings
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.