Job Opening: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (www.aiia.csd.auth.gr) and the Institute of Information Theory and Automation  at the  Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (www.utia.cas.cz)  offer a 17 month post-doc fellowship starting from October 1^st 2006 within the framework of the European Union Network of Excellence MUSCLE “Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation, and Learning” (www.muscle-noe.org). The research topic to be investigated is: Feature subset selection and multi-sensor fusion techniques for affect recognition and image texture analysis.

Young scientists from all over the world are invited to apply for this position. The prospective MUSCLE fellow will spend 8.5 months working at Thessaloniki, Greece and another 8.5 months continuing his or her research at Prague, the Czech Republic. Proven research experience in multimedia signal processing (image/speech) and pattern recognition/machine learning, very good knowledge of English, programming skills and strong interest in academic research are highly desired. Should you want to apply for the fellowship position, please submit your CV by email and ask 2 references to submit a recommendation letter for you by email to

Prof. Constantine Kotropoulos,

Department of Informatics,

Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki,

Box 451,

Thessaloniki 541 24

Greece

Tel: +30-2310-998225,

Fax: +30-2310-998453,

E-mail: costas@aiia.csd.auth.gr

The deadline for submitting an application is September, 18, 2006.  More details at:

 http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/LAB_JOBS/MUSCLE_fellowship_AUTH_UTIA.htm