The position is filled!
We would like to thank all the applicants for their efforts!
Unfortunately our budget is limited,
and so we sadly were not able to hire
several great candidates with impressive CVs.
For the record, here is the original announcement:
ETH Zurich and IDSIA near Lugano (Switzerland): PhD student position
We are seeking an outstanding PhD candidate for an ongoing research
project that combines machine learning (unsupervised learning, neural
networks, reinforcement learning, evolutionary computation) and
computational fluid dynamics. We tackle problems such as turbulent
flow encoding and drag minimisation.
This is a joint project of IDSIA and the Institute of Computational Sciences at ETH
Zurich (Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos). We maintain very active
links to Fluid Dynamics and AI institutes at Stanford University and NASA
Ames Research Center.
Salary is commensurate with experience but generally attractive.
There also is travel funding in case of papers accepted at
important conferences.
Highly qualified candidates are sought with a background in computational
sciences, engineering, mathematics, physics or other relevant areas.
Applicants should submit : (i) Detailed curriculum vitae, (ii) List
of three references (and their email addresses), (ii) Transcripts of
undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) studies and (iii) Concise
statement of their research interests (two pages max). Candidates are
also encouraged to submit their scores in the Graduate Record Examination
(GRE) general test (if available). Please send all documents to:
Juergen Schmidhuber,
IDSIA, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland.
(
www.idsia.ch/~juergen
)
Applications (with WWW pointers to studies or papers, if available)
can also be submitted electronically (in plain ASCII or postscript
format) to juergen@idsia.ch.
Please
connect your first and last name by a dot "." in the subject
header, and add a meaningful extension. For instance, if
your name is John Smith, then your messages could have headers
such as:
subject: John.Smith.cv.ps,
subject: John.Smith.statement.txt,
subject: John.Smith.correspondence.txt....
This will facilitate appropriate filing of your stuff.
Thanks a lot!
JOB INTERVIEWS. The IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks (24-27 July 2000) will take place in Como, Italy.
Como is very close to the Swiss border, just 30 minutes away from IDSIA.
In case you are participating in the conference: this would be a good
time for a job interview.
IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement
learning,
complexity and generalization issues,
unsupervised learning and information theory,
forecasting, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation.
IDSIA is small but visible, competitive, and influential.
Algorithms developed by IDSIA researchers hold the world records for
several important operations research problems. In the recent
"X-Lab Survey" by Business Week magazine,
IDSIA
was ranked in fourth place in the category "COMPUTER SCIENCE -
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED" - after the Santa Fe Institute,
Stanford University, and EPFL (also in Switzerland).
Its comparatively tiny size notwithstanding, IDSIA also ranked among
the top ten labs
worldwide in the broader category "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE".
SWITZERLAND (origin of special relativity, the World Wide Web, and
other interesting things) tends to be nice to scientists.
It boasts the highest citation impact factor,
the highest supercomputing capacity pc (per capita),
the most Nobel prizes pc (450 % of the US value),
the highest income pc, and the best chocolate.
IDSIA is located near the beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino, the scenic
southernmost province of Switzerland
(pictures).
Milano,
Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away, Venice 3 hours.
CSCS, the Ticino supercomputing center, is in the same building.
Juergen Schmidhuber, director, IDSIA
juergen@idsia.ch
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen
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