<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">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:</span><br></div><a href="http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/people/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/people/</a><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Candidates interested in NLP, speech and applications of machine learning to language processing should apply.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://hltcoe.jhu.edu</a><div><br><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The full advertisement is below.</font><br><br><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best,</font><br><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mark</font><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><br><br><br><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="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></font><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.<br></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Applicants must hold a PhD in computer science, linguistics, electrical engineering, or a closely related field.</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Candidates should have a strong background in one or more of these areas:</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">·       <em><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Natural Language Processing and Understanding:</span></b></em> Information extraction, knowledge distillation, semantics, sentiment, parsing, morphology, including low-resource languages</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">·       <em><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Machine Translation:</span></b></em> Low-resource languages, large-scale training, phrase-based and syntax-based approaches</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">·       <em><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Speech Processing:</span></b></em> Robust speech recognition and speaker identification (multiple languages, genres, and channels, limited resources), speech retrieval, language identification</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">·       <em><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Machine Learning:</span></b></em> Large-scale learning, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, data mining<strong><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-right:0.25in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Research Scientists</font></strong></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-right:0.25in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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. <b></b></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Senior applicants </strong>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. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Junior applicants </strong>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. Submit applications by January 3, 2015 for full consideration, however, applications will be accepted until positions have been filled.</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-right:0.25in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Post-Docs</font></strong></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recent PhD graduates may be considered for postdoctoral positions, which last from 1-2 years. Post-docs will be mentored by research scientists.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Applications should be submitted here: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4656">https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4656</a><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">Email: </font><a href="mailto:hltcoe-hiring@jhu.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">hltcoe-hiring@jhu.edu</a></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">WWW: <a href="http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/" target="_blank">http://hltcoe.jhu.edu</a></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><em><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></span></em></p></div></div>