The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire outstanding junior and senior researchers in all areas of speech and language processing. Open positions include Research Scientist and Post-doctoral positions. For full consideration, please apply by February 1, 2016.
The Center, located near Johns Hopkins' beautiful Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts long-term research on fundamental challenges that are critical for real-world problems. Its researchers publish widely in premier venues. To be considered, you must hold a Ph.D. in computer science, linguistics, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. You should also have a strong background in one or more of the following areas: - Natural Language Processing and Understanding: Information extraction, knowledge distillation, semantics, sentiment, parsing, morphology, including low-resource languages - Machine Translation: Low-resource languages, large-scale training, phrase-based and syntax-based approaches - Speech Processing: Robust speech recognition and speaker identification (multiple languages, genres, and channels, limited resources), speech retrieval, language identification - Machine Learning: Large-scale learning, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, data mining ** Research Scientists ** Research scientist positions carry many of the same benefits and responsibilities as faculty positions. Scientists are charged with setting the agenda for a research program, working with other members of our research team to pursue the organization's cutting edge research goals and publishing research results in academic conferences. Those who are interested also have the opportunity to pursue working with and advising graduate students at the Center for Language and Speech Processing and teaching courses at the University. - Senior applicants: A senior applicant should be an experienced researcher with a track record of high quality publications, and should also have significant experience in project management and a demonstrated ability in building HLT systems. Senior applicants should have experience equivalent to the level of Associate or Full Professor, or at least five years in industry. - Junior applicants: Junior applicants should have a strong record of publication and demonstrated research experience. Applicants should have experience equivalent to those with less than five years of industry experience, or those applying to Assistant Professor positions. ** Post-Docs ** We encourage junior applicants to apply for Research Scientist positions if they so desire. Recent PhD graduates may also apply for post-doctoral positions, which last from 1--2 years. Applicants will be supervised by research scientists. Please indicate which you are interested in when you fill out the application. ** How to Apply ** Applications should be submitted here: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6878 Email questions and concerns to: [email protected] On the web: http://hltcoe.jhu.edu Note: U.S. Citizenship and security clearance are required for most positions; we will seek a clearance for those who do not already have one. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
