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University of Trento — PhD Student

Title:PhD Student
Type:PhD studentship
Brief Description:Conversational Agents, Document Mining, other
Company:University of Trento
Location:Trento, Italy
Posted On:Oct 21, 2015
Application Deadline:
More Information:
The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) is
looking
for top-candidates for funded research internships and PhD research
fellowships.
Candidates should have background at least in one of the following areas:

- Automatic Speech Recognition

- Natural Language Understanding

- Dialog Modeling and Systems

- Machine Learning

Candidates will be working on research domains such as Conversational Agents,
 Intelligent Systems, Speech/Text Document Mining and Summarization,
Human Behavior Understanding, Crowd Computing and ICT applications
to teaching and learning.

Visit lab website at http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

The SIS Lab research is driven by interdisciplinary approach to research,
attracting researchers from  disciplines such as Digital Signal Processing,
Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and
Machine Learning.

The  official language ( research and teaching ) of the department is English.

FELLOWSHIP

Gross amount of the fellowships ( internship and PhD ) is circa 1.600
Euro/month.
Students may qualify for reduced campus lodging, transportation and cafeteria
reduced rates.

For more information about cost of living, campus, graduate education programs,
please visit the graduate school website at http://ict.unitn.it/

DEADLINES

Immediate openings with start date as early as Jan 2016.  Open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS

Master level degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational
Linguistics
 or similar disciplines. Students with other background (Physics, Applied Math)
may apply as well. Background in at least one of the posted research areas is
required. All applicants should have good very programming, math skills and
used
 to team work.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should send their
 1) CV
 2) For PhD applications, statement of research interest and
 3) three reference letters sent to:

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it


For more info:

Signals and Interactive Systems Lab     : http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/

PhD School                                                      :
http://ict.unitn.it/

Department                                                      :
http://disi.unitn.it/


Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI)

DISI has a strong focus on cross-disciplinarity 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, technologies and
applications.

University of Trento

The University of Trento is ranked as premiere Italian university institution.
See http://www.unitn.it/en/node/1636/mid/2573

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer.
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