Job Description

In the Science, Engineering and Technology Group of KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering Science, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), research group PSI (Processing of Speech and Images), there is a full-time tenure-track academic vacancy in the field of synergistic processing of multisensory data for audio-visual understanding. We are looking for internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competencies in the field of the vacancy. The successful applicant will be appointed in the ESAT-PSI research group, which conducts fundamental and application-oriented research into image and speech processing. The last decade has seen a paradigm shift towards data-driven modeling and automatic pattern recognition through machine learning based on large amounts of data. ESAT-PSI is in the fortunate position to have both speech and image processing expertise as well as machine learning capabilities within the same research group. This multi-disciplinary configuration is quite exceptional, even internationally. ESAT-PSI wants to leverage this strength in full by defining a specific professorship at the interface of spoken language understanding, computer vision and machine learning.

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