PhD & Postdoc Position Available ----------------------------------------- IDSIA, Switzerland, is seeking for one outstanding PhD student and one PostDoc with excellent mathematical skills interested in reinforcement learning, algorithmic information theory, Kolmogorov complexity, Minimal Description Length, computational complexity theory, information theory and statistics, universal Solomonoff induction, universal Levin search, sequential decision theory, adaptive control theory, and/or related areas.
Possible backgrounds are computer science, physics, mathematics, etc. The initial appointment will be for 2 years. Normally there will be a prolongation. The new PhD student/PostDoc will interact with Marcus Hutter and Juergen Schmidhuber and other people at IDSIA. See http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/idsia/phdpos1.htm for more information on the PhD position and http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/idsia/postdoc1.htm for more information on the PostDoc position. 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: Marcus Hutter, IDSIA, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland. Applications can also be submitted by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2MB max). WWW pointers to ps/pdf/doc/html files are welcome. Use Firstname.Lastname.DocDescription.DocType for filename convention. Thanks for your interest Marcus Hutter, senior researcher, IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale Galleria 2 CH-6928 Manno(Lugano) - Switzerland Phone: +41-91-6108668 Fax: +41-91-6108661 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ABOUT IDSIA. Our research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement learning, 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), and perhaps the best chocolate. ------------------- MLnet community list http://www.mlnet.org/mlnet2/services/mlnet-community.html
