CIFAR’s Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception (NCAP) Program is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to fill a Junior Fellowship position beginning in or after January 2011.
Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Computational Neuroscience, or a related discipline, and already have an exceptional track record of original research. The Junior Fellow will pursue his or her own research program, which should be related to computational approaches to how visual systems can be learned, preferably with some relevance to biological visual systems. The Junior Fellowship will be held in conjunction with a university postdoctoral appointment and is tenable at any of the Canadian universities where Fellows in the NCAP Program are based. A list of these Fellows is provided below. Eligibility: Individuals who have completed their PhD in one of the above-mentioned disciplines within the past three years, or will complete their doctorate before January 2011, are eligible to apply. In addition to an outstanding record of accomplishment, the successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, strong potential to collaborate with program members and ability to contribute to the program’s mission. The candidate will also be interested in exploring the contributions of research to society in collaboration with their peers from other CIFAR programs. Duration: Two years. Value: $65,000 CDN/year for salary, plus benefit support, if needed $5,000 CDN/year for research support How to Apply: Applications will be submitted through an online application system. Instructions will be posted on or before July 5, 2010 at www.cifar.ca/JFA, with an application deadline of September 1, 2010. Visit today for more information about CIFAR and its Junior Fellow Academy. CIFAR is strongly committed to diversity within its community, and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas. ________________________________________________________________________________________ *Canada-based NCAP Program Fellows are listed below. For more information, please visit the researcher profiles posted on the CIFAR website. UBC: Nando de Freitas, David Lowe U of Toronto: David Fleet, Brendan Frey, Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Zemel Queen’s U: Nikolaus Troje York U: Hugh Wilson U de Montréal: Yoshua Bengio
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