Thursday 30 August 2012

Germany : 2 Doctoral Student Positions-Cross-modal Interaction in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems

Deadline: 15th September 2012

The International Research Training Group Hamburg/Germany - Beijing/China (IRTG-CINACS)

Cross-modal Interaction in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the State of Hamburg, and the Ministry of Education of the PeopleĆ¢€™s Republic of China, is seeking two highly qualified and motivated candidates for

2 Doctoral Student Positions at the University of Hamburg beginning October 1st, 2012, or later

The IRTG-CINACS offers a 3-year doctoral program based at the University of Hamburg and at Tsinghua University, Beijing. The dissertation projects will be carried out at the University of Hamburg. A part (up to 6 months) of the studies will be performed at Tsinghua University. The interdisciplinary program provides exciting research opportunities for research on multi-sensory perception and cross-modal information processing.

The positions are available at the Department of Informatics of the University of Hamburg in the Natural Language Systems research group. Possible research topics will center around the design, implementation, optimization and evaluation of incremental systems for speech and language processing in multi-modal environments. Special emphasis is placed on the effective integration of cues from different modalities and the diagnosis of mismatches between them.

You should have obtained a degree in Computer Science or another relevant discipline (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, or Cognitive Science) with a strong background in computational issues. A good command of English is essential. The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel and encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, preference will be given to qualified female applicants.

Applicants should submit a CV, a description of prior studies and research experience as well as a statement of research interests by e-mail to cinacs@informatik.uni-hamburg.de and to menzel@informatik.uni-hamburg.de


Further information on CINACS can be obtained at: http://www.cinacs.org/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang, TAMS, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, 22527 Hamburg, Germany
Tel.: +494042883-2430

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