we have openings for TWO positions in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, available from Dec 1st, 2020 for 14 months. We are seeking:

A Research Assistant (qualified to Masters level)

A Research Fellow (holds a PhD)

The Project:

RoomReader is a project led by Prof. Naomi Harte in TCD and Prof. Ben Cowan in UCD, Ireland. The research is exploring and modelling online interactions, and is funded by the Science Foundation Ireland Covid 19 Rapid Response Call. The candidate will be working with a team to drive research into multimodal cues of engagement in online teaching scenarios. The work involves a collaboration with Microsoft Research Cambridge, and Microsoft Ireland.

The Research Assistant will have a psychology/linguistics/engineering background (we are flexible) and will be tasked with researching and designing a new online task to elicit speech based interactions relevant to online teaching scenarios (think multi-party MapTask or Diapix, but different). They will also be responsible for the capture of that dataset and subsequent editing/labelling for deployment in the project and eventual sharing with the wider research community. Annual gross salary up to ?34,930 per annum depending on experience.

The Research Fellow needs a background, including a PhD, in deep learning and the modelling of multimodal cues in speech. Their previous experience might be in conversational analysis, multimodal speech recognition or other areas. They should have a proved track record with publications commensurate with career stage. Annual gross salary up  to ?50030 depending on experience.

The project starts on Dec 1^st, and the positions can start from that date and continue for 14 months. Please email nharte@tcd.ie for a more detailed description of either role, or to discuss. I am open to a person remote-working for the remainder of 2020, but the ideal candidate will be in a position to move to Ireland for Jan 2021 and work with the team in TCD.

Sigmedia Research Group @ Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

The Signal Processing and Media Applications (aka Sigmedia) Group was founded in 1998 in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Originally with a focus on video and image processing, the group today spans research in areas across all aspects of media ? video, images, speech and audio. Prof. Naomi Harte leads the Sigmedia research endeavours in human speech communication. The group has active research in audio-visual speech recognition, evaluation of speech synthesis, multimodal cues in human conversation, and birdsong analysis. The group is interested in all aspect of human interaction, centred on speech. Much of our work is underpinned by signal processing and machine learning, but we also have researchers with a background in linguistic and psychology aspects of speech processing to keep us all grounded.