PostDoc/Visiting Scholar Openings

Position in Computer Vision:

A postdoctoral research associate is available immediately with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, We are looking for candidates with strong experience in facial expression recognition, gesture recognition, or human body tracking and human activity recognition. Knowledge and experience in graphical models and their application in computer vision are especially welcome.

Position in Probabilistic Graphical Models:

The Intelligent Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at RPI is seeking a post-doctorate associate with background and expertise in graphical models including Bayesian Networks. We are especially interested in candidates with significant experience in theoretical developments of graphical models such as learning and inference. Specifically, I am interested in parameter/structure learning for graphical models. One specific area we are working on now is to combine training data and qualitative knowledge for learning model parameters. Another area I am interested in is performing efficient inference. Yet another area is to produce a unified graphical model based on combining directed graphical models with undirected graphical models through a factor graph. . For application, I am interested in innovative and creative application of graphical models to computer vision, human computer interaction, and situation awareness applications. Currently, we have applied GMs to image segmentation, object tracking, object recognition, human state modeling and recognition, human activity recognition, and high level information fusion for situation awareness.

Besides research areas, I also expect a postdoc to be independent, highly motivated, to be able to produce quality publications, and to assist me with student supervision and proposal preparation. In addition, I also expect the postdoc to interact actively with my students and with people in other fields in order to apply the graphical model theories to different fields. Strong and solid mathematical (especially in optimization) and statistical background and excellent programming skills are also essential. The positions are available immediately.

Interested candidates, please contact Dr. Qiang Ji at jiq@rpi.edu . Additional information about research at ISL may be found at http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji/

Last update on March 14, 2008.