<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy)</div><div> is looking for top-candidates for funded PhD research fellowships. </div><div>We are looking to cover the following areas of interest:</div><div><br></div><div>- Signal Processing for Speech and BioSignals</div><div><br></div><div>- Automatic Speech Recognition</div><div><br></div><div>- Natural Language Understanding (Text/Speech/Multimodal)</div><div><br></div><div>- Dialog Modeling and Systems (Text/Speech/Multimodal )</div><div><br></div><div>- Machine Learning</div><div><br></div><div>Candidates will be working on research domains such as Mobile Interactive Agents,</div><div> Question Answering Systems, Speech/Text Mining, Statistical Machine Translation,</div><div> Human Behavior Understanding, Crowd Computing and ICT applications to teaching </div><div>and learning.</div><div><br></div><div>The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to research, </div><div>attracting researchers from disciplines such as Digital Signal Processing, </div><div>Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and </div><div>Machine Learning. </div><div>The mission of the lab is to :</div><div>A) understand diverse signal ( e.g. speech,</div><div> text, biosignals, multimodal ) generated by humans in their interactions with </div><div>machines, humans and complex systems including both. </div><div>B) to train and design machines that are able to support humans in their</div><div> interactions in a social, physical and virtual space.</div><div><br></div><div>For more info on the research carried out, visit </div><div>the lab website: <a href="http://sisl.disi.unitn.it">http://sisl.disi.unitn.it</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The official language ( research and teaching ) of the department is English.</div><div><br></div><div>FELLOWSHIP</div><div><br></div><div>Gross amount of the fellowship is 1.607.48/month. PhD students benefit from </div><div>reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria reduced rates. For more </div><div>information about please visit the graduate school website.</div><div><br></div><div>DEADLINES:</div><div><br></div><div>January 31, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>HOW TO APPLY:</div><div><br></div><div>Master level degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (or similar ) as well </div><div>Computational Linguistics ( or similar ). Students with other background (Physics, Applied Math)</div><div> may apply as well. Background in at least one of the posted research areas is preferable. All</div><div> applicants should have good very programming and math skills and used to project</div><div> team work. Interested applicants should send their 1) CV along with 2) their </div><div>statement of research interest and 3) have three reference letters sent to:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it">sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For more info:</div><div><br></div><div>Lab web page: <a href="http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/">http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/</a></div><div><br></div><div>PhD School : <a href="http://ict.unitn.it/">http://ict.unitn.it/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Department : <a href="http://disi.unitn.it/">http://disi.unitn.it/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI)</div><div><br></div><div>DISI has a strong focus on Interdisciplinarity with professors from different </div><div>faculties of the University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics,</div><div> Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) with international </div><div>background. DISI aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the </div><div>various research areas in order to develop innovative methods and technologies, </div><div>applications and advanced services.</div><div><br></div><div>University of Trento</div><div><br></div><div>The University of Trento is <a href="http://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/3424/rankings">ranked as premiere Italian university institution</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>-----<br>Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi<br>Head of Signals and Interactive Systems Lab<br>Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science<br>University of Trento <br>Room D5, via Sommarive 14<br>38050 Povo di Trento, Italy<br>tel : +39-0461 283175</div><div><br></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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