Opportunities (all announcements)

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INESC ID is one of the largest and most dynamic research institutes in Portugal in the areas of telecommunications, information systems and electronics with the status of associated laboratory given by the Portuguese government. INESC ID seeks highly qualified candidates holding a PhD with a proven track record and ability to perform independent research.


Ph.D. Program CMU-Portugal

Post-Doc Fellowship in Project INSIDE

This is a 3 year position, starting in April 2015.

INSIDE is a joint research project involving Portuguese academic/industrial partners and Carnegie Mellon University. The project explores symbiotic child-robot interactions in joint cooperative activities, with application to the treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder impairments.

Your role would be related to speech processing in environmentally challenging conditions and with limited adaptation data available. Research will be focused on static and dynamic adaptation of models starting from our current research on deep learning and observation uncertainty techniques.

We are looking for candidates with following experience:

  • Robust ASR/KWS
  • Neural networks
  • Python, bash scripting and C/C++

Additional experience welcome

  • Computational Paralinguistics
  • Python-theano
  • Knowledge of the Portuguese language
  • Missing features / Observation uncertainty

If interested, send a curriculum vitae (highlighting publications relevant to the position) and a motivation letter to ramon.astudillo@l2f.inesc-id.pt before March 15.


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