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Doctoral student positions and internship positions
in social computing at Idiap and EPFL, Switzerland
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The Social Computing Research Group at Idiap/EPFL is
looking for highly motivated candidates for several
doctoral student positions and internship positions
in social media, ubiquitous computing, human behavior,
and computational social science.

All positions are available immediately.


* Doctoral student positions

Three PhD student positions are open as part of two
new interdisciplinary projects funded by the Swiss
National Science Foundation, involving partners in
Switzerland and the US. The positions offer the opportunity
to do exciting research on social media, mobile and
ubiquitous computing, human behavior analysis, and
computational social science.

The doctoral students will be enrolled at the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). The positions
are for four years.

Candidates will have a master's degree in computer
science, information science, or electrical engineering
with a strong mathematical and programming background
and a genuine interest in interdisciplinary research.

Two of the positions require experience and/or interest
in machine learning, ubiquitous and mobile computing,
and mobile social media/social networks.

The third position requires experience and/or interest in
machine learning and multimedia (vision, audio, text)
for human behavior analysis.

* MS project / PhD student internships

Internship positions are available for six-month
periods. The positions are open for MS or PhD students
to do research on (1) social media analysis, and
(2) ubiquitous computing for human behavior analysis.
Candidates will have a degree in computer science,
information science, or electrical engineering with
strong mathematical and programming skills and keen
to learn about interdisciplinary research.

Idiap (EPFL's Lidiap laboratory) is located in Martigny
in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland
surrounded by the highest mountains in Europe, which
offers multiple recreational activities, including hiking,
climbing, and skiing, as well as varied cultural
activities within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva.
EPFL is one of the top universities in Europe in science
and engineering. Both Idiap and EPFL offer a young,
multicultural environment with English as lingua franca.
Our research group, led by Dr Daniel Gatica-Perez
(www.idiap.ch/~gatica), includes a diverse team of
scientific collaborators, research fellows,
postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students, and
visitors working on multidisciplinary problems.

Interested candidates should email a letter of motivation,
a detailed CV, and the names of three references to
idiapsc.jobs@gmail.com