10 PhD or Postdoctoral Positions in Machine Learning & Deep Learning, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017)

The Informatics Institute, one of the large research institutes of the Faculty of Science, has ten vacancies for PhD candidates or Postdoctoral researchers in Machine Learning and Deep Learning

World-class research groups directly involved in deep learning are AMLAB (machine learning led by Prof. M. Welling), ISIS (computer vision led by Prof. A. Smeulders) and ILPS (information retrieval led by Prof. M. de Rijke). Besides Bosch-UvA Lab, other examples of industry funded research labs involved in deep learning are Qualcomm-UVA Lab (12 PhDs/Postdoctoral researchers) and SAP-UvALab (3 PhDs/Postdoctoral researchers).

Requirements
PhD candidates
- Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Physics or related field;
- excellent programming skills (the project is in Matlab, Python and C/C++);
- solid mathematics foundations, especially statistics, calculus and linear algebra;
- highly motivated;
- fluent in English, both written and spoken;
- proven experience with machine learning / computer vision is a big plus.

Postdoctoral researchers
- Phd degree in machine learning, computer vision or related field;
- excellent publication record in top-tier international conferences and/or journals;
- strong programming skills (e.g. python, Theono, Torch, Tensorflow, C/C++);
- motivated and capable to coordinate and supervise research.

Further details:
http://www.universitypositions.eu