[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc positions in the SPHINX group in Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: Postdoc positions in the SPHINX group in Ecole Normale 
Superieure in Paris
Date: 	Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:13:04 +0100
From: 	Florent KRZAKALA <florent.krzakala at ens.fr>
To: 	florent.krzakala at lps.ens.fr <florent.krzakala at lps.ens.fr>


Dear friends and colleagues,

I would like to invite applications for postdoctoral positions in my 
group in Ecole Normale in Paris. More information on 
http://postdoc.krzakala.org/

The positions are funded by the ANR-FNS French-Swiss grant PAIL (PIs : 
Florent Krzakala ENS-Paris, Nicolas Macris EPFL-Lausanne). The 
appointments are intended to start anytime from now to in the fall of 
2019 and will be for 2 years.

This project on Phase diagrams and Algorithms for Inference and Learning 
aims at developing a better theoretical understanding of the recent 
advances in machine learning and high-dimensional statistics that have 
had a tremendous impact but call for more principled, and ideally 
rigorous, justifications.

This goal will be pursued in this project by building on the fruitful 
interplay between statistical mechanics of disordered systems, discrete 
mathematics and computer science that has produced a number of important 
results in the related fields of constraint satisfaction problems and 
probabilistic inference. The project is developed with Guilhem Semerjian 
and in collaboration with Marc Mezard, Lenka Zdeborova (CEA Saclay) and 
many groups in the Parisian region.

This project places an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, and aims to 
achieve progress by bringing together postdocs with different scientific 
backgrounds. More specifically, the candidates can come from different 
areas (Statistics and probability, theoretical physics, signal 
processing, applied mathematics, statistical physics, information 
theory, machine learning and neural networks) and are expected to bring 
their expertise. Successful candidates will thus conduct a vigorous 
research program within the scope of the project.

The members of the group also keep close contacts with other researchers 
of the Ecole Normale Superieure, of the University Paris-Sud and of the 
CEA Saclay, all of them based closed by. The ENS is conveniently located 
in the very center of Paris. The positions are endowed with travel and 
computing resources.

Keywords: Probability and statistics, Machine Learning, Signal 
processing, information theory, graphical models, Bayesian inference, 
compressed sensing, error correcting codes, spatial coupling, Belief 
Propagation, Message Passing, Tomography. Statistical physics - glasses, 
spin glasses, random optimization problems, cavity method, replica 
method - c, c++, matlab, julia, python.

Deadline: Apply before Jan 15, 2019

To apply, and for further information: florent.krzakala at ens.fr 
<mailto:florent.krzakala at ens.fr> and http://postdoc.krzakala.org

The candidates should send their detailed cv (including list of 
publication, presentations, citations etc.), and 1 page letter of 
motivation explaining why they want to work on this subject, what is 
their related experience, and present a short project. Preselected 
candidates should be ready to provide two letters of recommendation at a 
later stage.