Post-doc position in Speech Recognition, Adaptation, Retrieval and Translation
In Aalto University School of Science and Technology (previously known as Helsinki University of Technology) in Department of Computer and Information Science

http://ics.tkk.fi/en/current/news/view/postdoc_position_in_the_speech_recognition_group/

or directly: http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/speech/jobs10.shtml

We are looking for a postdoc to join our research group working on machine learning and probabilistic modeling in speech recognition, adaptation, retrieval and translation. Speech recognition group (led by Mikko Kurimo) belongs to the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre (by Prof. Oja, 2006-) which is the successor to the Neural Networks Research Centre (by Prof. Kohonen, 1995-2005).

We are happy to consider outstanding candidates interested in any of our research themes, for example:

·      large-vocabulary speech recognition

·      acoustic and language model adaptation

·      speech recognition in noisy environments

·      spoken document retrieval

·      speech translation based on unsupervised morpheme models

·      speech recognition in multimodal and multilingual interfaces

Postdoc: 1 year + extension possibilities. Starting date: near August 1, 2010. Position requires a relevant doctoral degree in CS or EE, skills for doing excellent research in a group, and outstanding research experience in any of the research themes mentioned above. The candidate is expected to perform high-quality research, and provide assistance in supervision of our PhD students.

In Helsinki you will join the innovative international computational data analysis and ICT community. Among European cities, Helsinki is special in being clean, safe, liberal, Scandinavian, and close to nature, in short, having a high standard of living. English is spoken everywhere. See. e.g. Visit Finland.

Please attach a CV including a list of publications and email addresses of 2-3 people willing to give more information. Include a brief description of research interests and send the application by email to

Mikko Kurimo, Mikko.Kurimo@tkk.fi
Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science and Technology