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As a growing research institute, we are always looking for outstanding, motivated researchers and Ph.D. students. If you feel that you would fit well into our dynamic research environment, feel free to send us your C.V.

Here is the present status of recent job openings. We anticipate the creation of several additional posts later this year.

Status	Posted	Position	Description
OPEN	2013	Postdocs & PhD students in Schmidhuber's group	See the link for a full description.	view
OPEN	2013	Ph.D. Student Position	Ph.D. Student Position in graphs algorithms for cancer system biology We are looking for a Ph.D. student with excellent background in algorithms and optimization on graphs as well as computer programming skills. Experience in bioinformatics is not strictly required but highly desirable.	view
CLOSED	2012	PhD on stochastic vehicle routing problems	PhD Student Position in sampling-based metaheuristics for stochastic vehicle routing problems (supported by Swiss National Science Foundation )	view
CLOSED	2012	Ph.D. Student Position in algorithms	1 PhD student position in the area of algorithms, with a special focus on approximation and exact/parameterized algorithms (supported by the ERC Starting Grant NEWNET)	view
OPEN	2012	Ph.D. Student Position in approximation algorithms	We are looking for an outstanding Ph.D. student with excellent mathematical skills. The applicant should have a Bachelor degree and a Master degree in Computer Science or related areas. The main topic of the project is about approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems.	view
CLOSED	2012	Researcher in OR and Applied Statistics	IDSIA is looking for a Researcher with a background in Operations Research and Applied Statistics. The successful candidate will work in a number of applied research projects related to transportation engineering and logistics.	view
FILLED	2012	Phd Student Position in Robust Optimization	We are looking for an outstanding Ph.D. student with excellent mathematical as well as computer programming skills. The applicant must have completed Master studies in computer science, informatics, or a closely related field prior to starting the program.	view
FILLED	2011	Lecturer/Researcher	We are looking for a Researcher with a solid and proven (i.e. first class publications) background in network design algorithms, distributed algorithms, randomized and approximation algorithms, algorithms and data structure, moderately-exponential exact and parameterized algorithms.	view
FILLED	2011	Post-Doc Researcher in robotic swarms	The objective of the research is to fill the gap and to work out the cross-fertilization of ideas and methods between swarm robotics and ant-based approaches for adaptive routing and control of mobile ad hoc networks.	view
FILLED	2010	1 PhD	Intelligent, adaptive, scientific workflows for complex interdisciplinary systems.	view
FILLED	2010	1 Postdoc	Research and development in the areas of semantic annotation, tagging and discovery systems and their evaluation for complex, environmental applications.	view
filled	2010	3 Postdocs and 3 PhD students	Three postdocs from Jürgen Schmidhuber's group just got professorships abroad. Now we are seeking three FRESH postdocs and PhDs in machine learning and cognitive robotics.	view
filled	2010	Research assistant	We are looking for a motivated research assistant to collaborate to the development of a decision support system for intermodal rail transport. Advanced skills in computer programming are essential. The call is open until 15.04.2010	view
filled	2010	PhD	Symbiotic cooperation between humans and robotic swarms	view
FILLED	2010	Synergistic interactions in swarms	Open position for a PhD student working on the design, implementation, and adaptive control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems that are composed of humans, animals, and robots working in cooperation to solve distributed tasks	view
filled	2009	1 Postdoc and 1 Phd student	~~10 new jobs: 5 Postdocs & 5 PhD students in Cognitive Robotics & Machine Learning at Schmidhuber's lab.~~ Update, 4+4 already hired. Still open: 1 postdoc and 1 PhD position	view
filled	2009	1 PhD student	Development of theory and algorithms for credal networks	view
filled	2008	Postdoc	Imprecise-Probability Methods for Data Mining in Genomics and Medicine	view
filled	2008	Postdoc	Sequence learning, recurrent neural networks, probabilistic models, time series prediction, evolution.	view
filled	2008	PhD	Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, estimation algorithms, etc.), evolutionary reinforcement learning,neuroevolution, co-evolution, linkage learning, fitness estimation, ensemble methods, multi-objective methods.	view
filled	2008	PhD	Metaheuristics, mathematical programming, optimization on networks, optimization under uncertainty.	view
filled	2008	1 Postdoc and 1 Software Developer	We are seeking an outstanding postdoc and a developer in the fields of handwriting recognition / machine learning / image processing. Goal: to advance the state of the art in handwriting recognition, for example, by further improving the recent state-of-the-art recurrent net algorithms for connected handwriting. This is a collaboration with the Swiss company Lifeware.	view
filled	2008	Postdoc	PostDoc Position in medical image/videostream automatic classification, who will work in the context of the IN3 project: "INtelligent INvitro INcubator" that requires expertise in medical image and medical video analysis. The project has the goal to automate the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process developing a new incubator with new internal equipments and new software tools. In particular IDSIA has to develop automatic classification systems able to classify status of embryos based on their images and video streams taken in various stages of their in vitro growing process.	view
filled	2008	1 PostDoc	Biologically plausible reinforcement learning	view
filled	2008	PhD	Theoretical study and development of expert systems based on imprecise probabilities and graphical models, with applications to military defense problems.	view
filled	2008	1 Postdoc and 1 PhD	Approximation Algorithms and complexity theory.	view
filled	2007	PhD	Unifying graphical models by credal networks: algorithms and applications	view
filled	2007	Tenure-Track	Intelligent Systems: Metaheuristics (emphasis on ant colony optimization) , Optimization & Simulation (emphasis on transportation and vehicle routing problems), Robotics (emphasis on autonomous and swarm robotics)	view
filled	2007	PhD	Mathematical Modeling of Neighborhood Choice on Housing Markets	view
filled	2007	Postdoc	Theory and Practice of Reinforcement Learning	view
filled	2007	Postdoc	AI and OR for Environmental Modelling.	view
filled	2006	PhD	Bayesian Methods for Integrated Genomics	view
filled	2006	Senior (professor or postdoc)	Sequence learning, adaptive robotics	view
filled	2006	PhD	Swarm Robotics	view
filled	2006	PhD	Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems	view
filled	2006	Tenure Track Senior Scientist	Operations Research & Artificial Intelligence	view
filled	2006	Postdoc and PhD	Theory and practice of reinforcement learning	view
filled	2006	PhD or Postdoc	TUM job: sequence learning for tactile sensors	view
filled	2006	Several postdoc/PhD positions	TUM jobs: Cognitive Technical Systems	view
filled	2005	PhD	Approximation Algorithms for Machine Scheduling Through Theory and Experiments	view
filled	2005	Postdoc	Sequence learning	view
filled	2004	PhD	Power Aware Computing	view
filled	2004	Postdoc or PhD	Cognitive Robotics	view
filled	2004	Postdoc and PhD	Robot Learning	view
filled	2004	2 Postdocs	Integrated Modelling Frameworks	view
filled	2004	Postdoc/Visitor	Speech, Recurrent Nets, Hidden Markov Models	view
filled	2004	Postdoc / PhD	Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence	view
filled	2003	Several Postdocs and PhD's	Recurrent Neural Networks - Optimal Incremental Problem Solving	view
filled	2003	Postdoc	Approximation Algorithms for Machine Scheduling Through Theory and Experiments	view
filled	2003	M.Sc./Postdoc	Bioinformatics/data mining for functional genomics	view
filled	2003	Postdoc/Visitor	Learning robots	view
filled	2002	PhD student fellowship	Investigations on the Theory and Practice of Credal Classification	view
filled	2002	Postdoc	Biology-Inspired Techniques for Self Organization in Dynamic Networks	view
filled	2002	PhD student fellowship	Biology-Inspired Techniques for Self Organization in Dynamic Networks.	view
filled	2002	Postdoc	Universal Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Kolmogorov Complexity, Solomonoff induction	view
filled	2002	PhD student fellowship	Universal Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Kolmogorov Complexity, Solomonoff induction.	view
filled	2002	PhD student fellowship	Optimal Search, Universal Learning Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning in realistic environments.	view
filled	2001	PhD student fellowship	Reinforcement Learning, Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Nets etc.	view
filled	2001	Two postdoctoral researchers	European Project for three years: robotics, swarm intelligence, simulation and machine learning.	view
filled	2001	Two postdoctoral researchers	Neural Networks, Complexity, ICA, MDL, Recurrent Nets, Online Learning, Reinforcement Learning, etc.	view
filled	2001	Postdoctoral researcher	Operational Research.	view
filled	2000	Ph.D. student	Machine learning & computational fluid dynamics.	view
filled	2000	Postdoctoral researcher	Combinatorial optimization (EU Metaheuristics Network).	view
filled	2000	Systems administrator	Maintain and expand IDSIA's computer systems.	view
filled	1999	Postdoctoral researcher	Recurrent neural networks.	view
filled	1999	Ph.D. student	Online ant-colony optimization	view

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