PHD STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
Our budget is limited, and
so we sadly were not able to consider several great candidates with
impressive CVs. If you were among them then
I do hope you are not too disappointed now, and I would like to thank you once
more for your efforts, and I wish you all the best for your future carreer!
Juergen Schmidhuber
Note: we expect to have a similar job opening in the
near future, with a focus on universal learning machines.
In case you applied for the position above we'll keep your files;
if you are interested you may also send updates in the style
requested in the old announcement below:
We are offering a fellowship for an outstanding PhD student
interested in
reinforcement learning agents in realistic environments
and in
optimal search algorithms
and
universal learning algorithms
and
program evolution.
Before applying, please check out the links above and download
a few papers.
Possible backgrounds are computer science, physics, mathematics, etc.
The initial appointment will be for 2 years. Normally there
will be a prolongation.
The goal is to finish the PhD thesis within 3-4 years.
The new student will interact with
Juergen Schmidhuber
and his postdoc
Marcus Hutter
and other people at IDSIA.
SALARY: roughly SFR 35,000 per year. Low taxes.
No teaching etc. - just research for PhD degree.
There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at
important conferences.
Applicants should submit : (i) Detailed curriculum vitae, (ii) List
of three references and their email addresses, (iii) Concise
statement of their research interests (two pages max).
Please send all documents to:
Juergen Schmidhuber,
IDSIA, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland.
Applications in plain ASCII format can also be submitted by email
(only small files please) to juergen@idsia.ch.
Do NOT send doc or pdf or large postscript files.
Instead send WWW pointers to postscript files.
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.txt,
subject: John.Smith.cv.txt,
subject: John.Smith.statement.txt,
subject: John.Smith.correspondence.txt....
This will facilitate appropriate filing of your stuff.
Thanks a lot!
IDSIA is generally methodical and thorough in its professional searches,
and may take several years to fill a position in a targeted field,
so failure to make an appointment in any given year should not be
misinterpreted as a loss of interest in that field.
ABOUT IDSIA.
Our research focuses on optimal search,
artificial neural nets, reinforcement learning,
metalearning,
complexity and generalization issues,
unsupervised learning and information theory,
forecasting,
artificial ants,
combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation.
IDSIA is small but visible, competitive, and influential.
IDSIA's algorithms hold the world records for
several important operations research benchmarks (see Nature 406(6791):39-42 for
an overview of artificial ant algorithms developed at IDSIA). In the
"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".
IDSIA is located near the beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino
(pictures),
the scenic southernmost province of Switzerland,
origin of special relativity and the WWW.
Milano,
Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away, Venice 3 hours.
Our collaborators at
CSCS (the Swiss supercomputing center) are right beneath us;
we are also affiliated with the University of Lugano and SUPSI.
Switzerland 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 perhaps the best chocolate.
Juergen Schmidhuber, director, IDSIA, 2002
juergen@idsia.ch
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen
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