[apologies for multiple postings] Ph.D. Position Available - Deadline December 1st 2002 ----------------------------------------------------- IDSIA, Switzerland, is seeking for an outstanding Ph.D. student with excellent mathematical as well as computer programming skills.
We intend to explore the opportunities offered by imprecise probabilities and graphical models to data mining, in particular to classification. Classification has a long tradition in Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Classifiers are tools inferred from data that learn how to do real and important tasks of diagnosis, prediction and recognition. Imprecise probability-based classification is an exciting new area, with great potential to provide new and reliable ways to deal with difficult problems. The research will need to address both theoretical (foundations of statistical reasoning) and applied issues (implementation and test of new models). Possible backgrounds are computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, etc. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The initial appointment will be for 2 years. Normally there will be a prolongation. The new Ph.D. student will interact with Marco Zaffalon and other people at IDSIA, and will be involved in international research collaborations. See http://www.idsia.ch/~zaffalon/positions/credal2002.htm for more information. Applicants should submit: 1. Detailed curriculum vitae, 2. List of three references (and their email addresses), 3. Transcripts of undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) studies, 4. Concise statement of their research interests (two pages max). Please address all correspondence to: Marco Zaffalon, IDSIA, Galleria 2, CH-6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland. Applications can also be submitted by e-mail 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. Marco Zaffalon, Senior Researcher, IDSIA tel +41 91 610 8665 fax +41 91 610 8661 e-mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.idsia.ch/~zaffalon ABOUT IDSIA ----------- IDSIA (http://www.idsia.ch) is a joint research institute of the University of Lugano (http://www.unisi.ch) and the Swiss Italian University for Applied Science (http://www.supsi.ch). Our research focuses on uncertain reasoning, imprecise probabilities, graphical models, data mining, 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. The "X-Lab Survey" by Business Week Magazine ranked IDSIA among the world's top ten labs in Artificial Intelligence. 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). IDSIA is located near the swiss supercomputing center. IDSIA is close to the beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino, the scenic southernmost province of Switzerland. Zurich, Milan and Venice are only few hours away by train. ------------------- MLnet community list http://www.mlnet.org/mlnet2/services/mlnet-community.html
