At the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) we are looking for highly motivated and talented graduate students to join our research team and work on Conversational Artificial Intelligence. This umbrella term includes the following research areas:

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Natural Language Processing -

Dialogue Modeling and Systems -

Machine Learning -

Affective Computing

We are investigating and designing next-generation ML models for multimodal input /output processing in physical and hybrid environments and interactions.

For thirty years, the SIS Lab has trained intelligent machines and evaluated AI-based systems in many industry sectors, from fintech to health, following ethical principles and directives from data collection, annotation, machine learning modeling, and user engagement.

The lab research team is interdisciplinary and attracts researchers from computational linguistics, psychology, applied math, biomedical and electrical engineering, and computer science.

Research projects and publications can be found on the SIS lab website.

The department's official language (research and teaching) is English.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS

-Six months funded research fellowships: approximately 1.885 Euro/month gross. -Three-year funded Phd fellowships: approximately 1.885 Euro/month gross amount. For more information about the cost of living in Trento, please visit the website https://iecs.unitn.it/prospective-student/living-in-trento .

DEADLINES

Positions open until filled.

REQUIREMENTS

MANDATORY ( for both positions ) - Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, or similar/related disciplines. - Excellent academic records - Excellent programming skills - Excellent command of oral and written English - Good knowledge of most of the following: experimental design methodology and statistics, natural language processing, machine learning methods - Excellent teamwork skills

NICE-TO-HAVE

-Experience with Vision-Language Models and their applications.

-Expertise with LLM architectures, frameworks and applications.

-Experience with VR and/or XR architectures, frameworks and applications.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should mention the position they are applying and send their CV to:

Email: sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it For more info:

The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/The PhD School https://iecs.unitn.it/The Department Information Engineering and Computer Science Department @ University of Trento https://www.disi.unitn.it/ --- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Trento Room D5, via Sommarive 5 38123 Povo di Trento, Italy