Inria is seeking 3 postdoctoral researchers for a new European (H2020 ICT) collaborative project called COMPRISE. COMPRISE is a 3-year Research and Innovation Action (RIA) aiming at new cost-effective, multilingual, privacy-driven voice interaction technology. This will be achieved through research advances in privacy-driven machine learning, personalized training, automatic data labeling, and tighter integration of speech and dialog processing with machine translation. The technology will be based on existing software toolkits (Kaldi speech-to-text, Platon dialog processing, Tilde text-to-speech), as well as new software resulting from these research efforts.
The consortium includes academic and industrial partners in France (Inria <https://www.inria.fr/en/>,Netfective Technology <https://www.bluage.com/>), Germany (Ascora <https://ascora.net/>,Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/en/home.html>), Latvia (Tilde <https://www.tilde.com/>), and Spain (Rooter <https://www.rooter.es/home>). The successful candidates will be part of theMultispeech <https://team.inria.fr/multispeech/> team in Nancy or theMagnet <https://team.inria.fr/magnet/> team in Lille. Both teams will work in tight collaboration.
Topics include:
* weakly-supervised, semi-supervised learning, learning with partial feedback
* theoretical aspects and formal guarantees in private machine learning,
* representation learning and deep learning for speech processing,
* learning on the edge, federated learning and personalized learning.
Both theoretical and practical aspects will be developed, possibly by different candidates depending on their skills.
*Desired profile:*
Two alternative profiles are welcome, either:
* strong background in mathematics, machine learning, statistics and algorithms,
or
* strong experience with implementation and experimentation, speech processing, natural language processing, user modeling.
*Application deadline:* October 19, 2018
*Starting date:* January 1, 2019 or later
*Duration:* 2 years (renewable)
*Location:* Nancy or Lille, France
*Salary:* from 2,130 to 2,520 EUR net/month, according to experience
*For more details and to apply:*
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01045
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01044
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01038
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Emmanuel Vincent
Multispeech Project-Team
Inria Nancy - Grand Est
615 rue du Jardin Botanique, 54600 Villers-lès-Nancy, France
Phone: +33 3 8359 3083 - Fax: +33 3 8327 8319
Web:http://members.loria.fr/evincent/