Overview
Two PhD positions/studentships to study computational models of language and vision are available at the University of Trento (Italy): One in the Language, Interaction and Computation track of the 3-year PhD program offered by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (www.unitn.it/en/cimec); one in the 3-year ICT Doctoral School (http://ict.unitn.it/).
The PhD programs (start date: November 2015) are taught in English by an international faculty. The selected PhD student will work within the CLIC laboratory, an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both computational and cognitive methods (clic.cimec.unitn.it).
The topic of the PhD thesis will be defined with the student selected as PhD candidate. Possible research directions include: Compositionality in images; Methaphors in images; Searching for images through natural language queries; Language, vision and reasoning. The selected student will work closely with the research team of the ERC project COMPOSES (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes/).
Company:
University of Trento
Qualifications:
iven the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek a brilliant student with at least some of the following background:
– Machine learning
– Computer Vision
– Natural Language Processing
– Good programming skills
– Ability to work with big data
– Mathematical and statistical skills.
If you think that your background is relevant to the research program outlined on the project website (clic.cimec.unitn.it/lavi) and you have good programming and quantitative skills, please do get in touch even if you do not fully fit the profile above.
All prospective students are expected to have an interest in working in an interdisciplinary environment.
About Università degli Studi di Trento - University of Trento
The University of Trento is a medium sized University, it is young, dynamic and research-oriented. It is organized into 10 departments, 3 centers and continues to expand its fields of research and to offer new courses.
Over the last 50 years, the community of Trentino has been able to build a role-model university, possessing features which are rarely found in other Italian university and, even more rare, all found at the same time: an efficient administrative organization; modern working environments; teams of professors and researchers highly-motivated and who have strong connections with the international scientific community.
The University is rooted in the local community, but also internationally-oriented. Trento also offers a number of well-established double degree programs, master’s degree programs and PhD programs in English. The distinct international approach of the university of Trento is one of its strong points. It is involved in many research networks and has prestigious cooperation agreeme
