<div dir="ltr">The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University is hiring research scientists and postdocs. The HLTCOE already has a very strong group of researchers and is growing rapidly:<br>
<a href="http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/people/">http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/people/</a><br><br>Candidates interested in NLP, speech and applications of machine learning to language processing should apply.<br><a href="http://hltcoe.jhu.edu">http://hltcoe.jhu.edu</a><div>
<span class=""></span><span class=""></span><br>The full advertisement is below.<br><br>Best,<br>Mark<br><br><br><br><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire outstanding junior and senior researchers in all areas of speech and language processing. Positions include research scientist and post-doc.</span><br>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">The HLTCOE, located near Johns Hopkins’ beautiful Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts long-term research on fundamental challenges that are critical for real-world problems. Its researchers publish widely.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Applicants must hold a PhD in computer science, linguistics, electrical engineering, or a closely related field.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Candidates should have a strong background in one or more of these areas:</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><em><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Natural Language Processing and Understanding:</span></b></em><span style="font-family:Calibri"> Information extraction, knowledge distillation, semantics, sentiment, parsing, morphology, including low-resource languages</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><em><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Machine Translation:</span></b></em><span style="font-family:Calibri"> Low-resource languages, large-scale training, phrase-based and syntax-based approaches</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><em><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Speech Processing:</span></b></em><span style="font-family:Calibri"> Robust speech recognition and speaker identification (multiple languages, genres, and channels, limited resources), speech retrieval, language identification</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><em><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Machine Learning:</span></b></em><span style="font-family:Calibri"> Large-scale learning, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, data mining</span><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0.25in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Research Scientists</span></strong></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0.25in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:Calibri">Research scientists are charged with setting the agenda for a program, working with other members of the HLTCOE research team to pursue the organization’s cutting edge research goals, publishing results in academic conferences, and (optionally) working with or directly advising students and teaching University courses. Applications will be considered until positions have been filled.<b></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri">Senior applicants </span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">should be an experienced researcher with a track record of high quality publications, and should also have significant experience in project management and a demonstrated ability in building HLT systems. Senior applicants should have experience equivalent to the level of associate professor or 6+ years in industrial research.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri">Junior applicants </span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">should have a strong record of publication, and demonstrated research experience. Applicants should have experience equivalent to those applying to assistant professor positions, or 1-5 years in industry. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0.25in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Post-Docs</span></strong></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Recent PhD graduates may be considered for postdoctoral positions, which last from 1-2 years. Post-docs will be mentored by research scientists.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri">Applications should be submitted here: </span><a href="https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1991" title="https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1991"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(42,91,119);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1991</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri">Email: <a href="mailto:hltcoe-hiring@jhu.edu">hltcoe-hiring@jhu.edu</a></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri">WWW: <a href="http://hltcoe.jhu.edu">http://hltcoe.jhu.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Note: U.S. Citizenship and security clearance are required for most positions; the HLTCOE will seek a clearance for those who do not already have one.</span></em></p>
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