February, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 52

Postdoctoral or PhD Position for International Master Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Germany

The duties include academic service in the area of new MSc programme development as well as research in intelligent systems. The successful candidate will – within a team – develop and manage a new international Master Programme in Computer Science and Intelligent Systems as well as contribute to its teaching. Furthermore, the candidate is expected to conduct research in the area of Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Systems. This post is open to Postdocs or PhD candidates. PhD candidates have the opportunity to advance their academic education through the completion of a doctoral dissertation.

Academic degree preferably in computer science qualifying the holder to carry out the above-mentioned responsibilities. In particular, an MSc or PhD in Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science is essential. Your demonstrated research interests should be in the areas of Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Systems (e.g. Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Vision, or Knowledge Representation etc). We are also looking for very good communication skills and teamwork, in particular a very good command of both German and English is a requirement. Experience or a keen interest in developing a new MSc programme and very good programming skills are a plus.
The position is fulltime (39 hours per week). This initial short-term contract will end after two years and can be extended for a further three years (see also §2 of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law.
The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel and encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, if applicants are equally qualified, preference will be given to qualified female applicants or qualified disabled applicants.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 28.2.2011

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University of Hamburg, Doctorate Programme 2011 in Germany: Neural Multimodal Integration & Neural Speech Localisation

The Knowledge Technology Research Group is looking to fill two fulltime PhD studentships funded by the DFG in the context of the International Research Training Group CINACS  . This project offers a 3-year doctoral programme based at the University of Hamburg and at Tsinghua University, Beijing. The dissertation projects will be carried out at the University of Hamburg. A part of the studies (a few months) can be performed at Tsinghua University. The interdisciplinary programme provides exciting research opportunities in multisensory perception and cross-modal information processing.
The candidate is expected to conduct research in the area of Knowledge Technology and Neural Network Robotics. In these two projects we are particularly focused on working to-wards a) neural multimodal integration based on the superior colliculus and b) neural sound localisation for speech processing based on the inferior colliculus. We use an attractive humanoid robot scenario where humanoid robots interact with humans based on multimodal information. This includes the integration of an ambient environment with new cognitive humanoid robots.
Academic degree preferably in computer science or related qualifying the holder to carry out the above-mentioned responsibilities. In particular, an MSc or equivalent in computer science, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering or equivalent is essential. Knowledge of artificial intelligence, neural networks or robotics and an interest to work in an interdisciplinary environment will be important. The post involves international travel. We are looking for excellent programming skills, e.g. in C++, C, Python, Java etc. We are also looking for very good communication skills and teamwork, including very good knowledge of English. Knowledge of German would be desirable.
The PhD stipend is for three years (2 plus 1) and fulltime.
The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel and encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, if applicants are equally qualified, preference will be given to qualified female applicants or qualified disabled applicants.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 28.2.2011

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Isaac Newton – Dorothy Emmet Research Fellowships at Lucy Cavendish College, UK

Lucy Cavendish College is offering two stipendiary Research Fellowships and one non-stipendiary Research Fellowship for women, who hold PhDs.  For research in the Arts and Humanities, with a preference for Law and English. The stipend for each of these Research Fellowships will be £17,111 per annum, depending on funding already available to the candidate.Candidates who wish to hold the Research Fellowship on a part-time basis will also be considered, in which case the stipend would be pro-rata.The successful candidates will be expected to undertake four hours of small group teaching a week, to become members of the College, to reside in Cambridge and to participate fully in College life.  The appointments will be for one year in the first instance from 1 October 2011 and will be renewable annually until 30 September 2014, when the Research Fellowships will terminate. The Research Fellowships are subject to satisfactory progress and annual reports.Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in an area that relates scholarship to current issues facing the world.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 2 March 2011

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