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Funded PhD position on Deep Learning for Neuroimaging to Speech Decoding
@ HiTZ center (Spain)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION
* Position: PhD student
* Researcher Profile:
o First Stage Researcher (R1- up to the point of PhD) The
candidate should have a BSc degree related to computer science
and a MSc. including deep learning or machine learning subjects.
Outstanding curriculum vitae, good programming abilities, strong
motivation, team working skills, and fluent spoken and written
English will be highly appreciated.
* Project: #neural2speech Deep Learning for neuroimaging to speech
decoding
* Location: Spain > Donostia or Bilbao (free choice)
* Research Field: Multimodal Deep Learning
* Type of contract/Duration of Contract: 3 years
* Job Status: Full-time
* Hours per week: 35
* Gross salary: 17,221€ (1st year), 17,823€ (2nd year), 19,765€ (3rd
year)
* Starting date: June 2023 (hard date)
HiTZ zentroa - IXA Taldea is offering a 3-year funded PhD opportunity.
The position is linked to the IKUR #neural2speech project: the PhD
student will work on research projects with IXA Taldea (HiTZ center -
University of the Basque Country) in collaboration with two research
groups Aholab (HiTZ center - University of the Basque Country) and The
Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL).
* HiTZ - https://www.hitz.eus/ <https://www.hitz.eus/>
o Ixa Taldea - http://ixa.ehu.eus/ <http://ixa.ehu.eus/>
o Aholab - https://aholab.ehu.eus/aholab/
<https://aholab.ehu.eus/aholab/>
* BCBL - https://www.bcbl.eu/en <https://www.bcbl.eu/en>
Goal:Can speech be decoded from neural brain activity? Addressing this
issue is critical for restoring communication among people that have
lost their ability to speak due to some speech motor disorders (e.g.,
aphasia). The goal of #neural2speechis to build a multimodal contrastive
model trained on both neuroimaging input (fMRI and MEG) and speech
output. The multimodal contrastive model that we propose is based on the
neural transformer architecture.
Job description:The project will be highly collaborative across the
three laboratories involved, including common activities and coordinated
research agendas. The selected candidate will develop the core model of
the project, the multimodal Transformer model, and disseminate the
results in scientific conferences (presentations/posters) and
peer-reviewed journals. She/he will take advantage of the computation
facilities at HiTZ. The selected candidate will also have the
opportunity to develop original experiments under the supervision and
guidance of the PIs.
PI and research group:candidate will form part of HiTZ research center
led by Eneko Agirre ([email protected]) and Ander Barrena
([email protected]), who will also be the main supervisors.
Contact: [email protected]
*HiTZ **Basque Center for Language Technology* is a reference center on
Language Technologies. Its aim is to promote research, training,
technological transfer and innovation in Artificial Intelligence focused
on language and speech. We are a multidisciplinary team composed of
people with backgrounds in computer science, linguistics and
engineering. HiTZ is made up of the research groups Ixa and Aholab, both
from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). These groups are
—since their creation in 1988 and 1995 respectively— the main driving
forces in the area of Language Technologies in the Basque Country. HiTZ
is a leader in research in Spain, and holds a National Research Award in
Computer Science and one of the 15 fellows that the main research
association in the area (Association for Computational Linguistics) has
in Europe, as well as the best PhD thesis award in Artificial
Intelligence in Europe (EurAI 2020). HiTZ is also a member of Erasmus
Mundus+ European Masters Program in Language and Communication
Technologies (LCT) program
<https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/master/master-language-communication-technologies>.
The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (www.ehu.eus) is the
leading teaching and research institution in the Basque Country, a
prosperous region stretching along the Atlantic coast of northern Spain.
The UPV/EHU is among the *best 400 universities in the world* according
to the Shanghai ranking, and has been recognized as an International
Excellence Campus by the Spanish Government. The University of the
Basque Country, a vibrant 30-year-old institution with 45,000 students,
5,000 world-class academic staff and state-of-the-art facilities
distributed throughout 20 centers in its three campuses. **
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