All,
Passing along the below short-term paid opportunity to the list in case anyone
is interested. They're looking for someone with Python, Linux and TensorFlow
skills to act as instructor and helper for two weeks in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada this coming September.
Regards,
---
Jonah Duckles
Software Carpentry, Executive Director
http://software-carpentry.org
From: Amir Sariri <[email protected]>
Reply: Amir Sariri <[email protected]>
Date: June 27, 2017 at 12:34:30 PM
To: Jonah Duckles <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Quantum Machine Learning program at the University of Toronto
The University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab is offering a
first-of-its-kind quantum information science and machine learning program this
September. CDL is a program designed to help launch and scale science-based
startup companies. We’ve worked with hundreds of graduate students, post-docs,
and faculty from universities around the world to help them commercialize their
discoveries through entrepreneurship. We are a non-profit organization within
the university and we do not take equity, intellectual property or charge fees
from admitted companies.
This year, a new quantum machine learning program is being launched to generate
the first major wave of quantum-ready machine learning software companies.
Researchers from around the world will be relocating to Toronto to pursue this
exciting, exclusive opportunity.
They will be allocated time on a D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer and will require
knowledge of Python, Linux, and TensorFlow. The CDL is looking for experts in
this domain to create workshops for the researchers without these necessary
skills in the month of September. The first two weeks will be full-time (40
hours/week) while the last two will be part time (20 hours/week). In addition
to being exposed to the bleeding edge of quantum machine learning research, the
domain experts will be compensated $6200 for the month. If you are interested
in this position, please contact Amir Sariri at [email protected]
by July 25th, 2017.
You can find some additional information on the CDL and our new QML program
below .You can also visit our webpage www.creativedestructionlab.com/quantum
for more information.
More about the QML Program
The year-long program, which will begin in early September with one month of
intensive technical led by Dr. Peter Wittek, a quantum machine learning expert
based at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, will include
theoretical and applied guest lectures delivered by experts from institutions
including the Perimeter Institute and Institute for Quantum Computing in
Waterloo, and the newly formed Vector Institute in Toronto.
Each participant will also be exposed to the technical teams of multiple
quantum computing companies pursuing different platforms and will also be
allocated time on a D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer and support from D-Wave
scientists at no cost to the participant. At the end of the technical training,
participants will be eligible for up to USD $80K in equity financing in two
installments over the course of the program from our venture capital partners:
Bloomberg Beta, Data Collective, and Spectrum 28. After the intensive training,
participants will spend the remainder of the 2017-2018 academic year
prototyping products and services and building their businesses.
About the Creative Destruction Lab
The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable,
science-based ventures. The program was founded at the University of Toronto in
2012, and expanded to the University of British Columbia in 2016. It employs a
unique objectives-focused coaching process to help technically-minded founders
commercialize advances in science and technology through entrepreneurship.
Startup founders from around the world are invited to apply, but participation
requires committing to attend five bi-monthly meetings in Toronto, Canada
between October and June of each year. The program is particularly suited to
early-stage companies with links to university research labs.
Notable graduates from the program’s first five years:
Ada (conversational agents - Toronto)
Automat (conversational agents - Montreal)
Atomwise (drug discovery - San Francisco)
Beagle (automated contract analysis - Waterloo)
Blue J Legal (legal prediction - Toronto)
Bridgit (construction software - Waterloo)
Datalogue (data preparation - New York)
Deep Genomics (genomic diagnosis - Toronto)
Grobo (indoor growing - Waterloo)
NVBots (3D printing - Boston)
Eigen Innovations (factory automation - Fredericton)
Fluent (embedded speech recognition - Montreal)
Heuritech (consumer insights - Paris)
Kepler (satellites - Toronto)
Kyndi (natural language understanding - Palo Alto)
Nymi (wearable security - Toronto)
OTI Lumionics (lighting and display - Toronto)
Revlo (e-gaming - Mountain View)
Thalmic Labs (wearable computing - Waterloo)
Validere (chemical fingerprinting - Toronto)
Vertex (GPUs - Seattle)
VoxPop Labs (electoral polling - Toronto)
Xanadu (quantum computing - Toronto)
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Thanks,
Amir
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