Scientist Positions for the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) - http://www.a-star.edu.sg/ - is a Singapore government funded group of research institutions which receives multi-billion (U.S.) dollar funding from the Singapore government - http://www.nrf.gov.sg/research/r-d-ecosystem/overview. The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) - http://www.ihpc.a-star.edu.sg/ - is a member institute of A*STAR that was established in 1998 to provide leadership in high performance computing as a strategic resource for scientific inquiry and industry development. We are seeking highly self-motivated individuals capable of working independently yet cohesively as a team in the pursuit of scientific work with high demands on technical flair and a knack for innovative solutions to various problems. Successful candidates will become part of a multidisciplinary research team in building algorithms for computational and artificial intelligence, processing, analysing and interpreting social media data, language processing, computer vision, behaviour understanding, and commonsense reasoning. If you share our interests in solving challenging scientific problems, we welcome you to apply for the following positions: 1. Scientist (Artificial Intelligence) Job Description: You will contribute towards capability development in some of the following areas: computational and artificial intelligence systems, cognitively-inspired systems, intelligent processing, analysis and interpretation of social media data, data and video analytics, behaviour understanding systems, and probabilistic and commonsense inference systems. Requirements: 1. A PhD degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Information Systems / Cognitive Science / Psychology / Physics, or equivalent. 2. A good scientific research track record and practical experience in some of the following disciplines: computational and artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, modelling and simulation, data and video analytics, and social media data analysis. 3. Interest and experience with commonsense reasoning systems will be advantageous. 4. Able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. 5. Strong potential for producing impactful scholarly publications. 6. Demonstrates strong interest and ability in research. 2. Scientist (Linguistics/Computational Linguistics) Job Description: You will contribute towards capability development in the following area: design and development of computational and artificial intelligence systems, specifically language understanding and generation systems. Requirements: 1. A PhD degree in Linguistics / Computational Linguistics / Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Information Systems / Cognitive Science, or equivalent. 2. A good scientific research track record in one or more than one of the following areas: linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language processing systems, etc. 3. Interest and experience with cognitive linguistics will be advantageous. 4. Able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. 5. Strong potential for producing impactful scholarly publications. 6. Demonstrates strong interest and ability in research. Please submit CV and references by email to Dr. Seng-Beng Ho at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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