[Job-offers-cs] Post-doctoral position at ISEN Rennes (France) on Artificial Intelligence

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] Post-doctoral position at ISEN Rennes (France) on 
Artificial Intelligence
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:32:18 +0100
From: Michael Aron <michael.aron at isen-ouest.yncrea.fr>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de

Yncréa Ouest/ISEN is a French major engineering school, specialized in 
digital sectors, recognized by the Ministry of Education and accredited 
by the CTI (French national engineering qualification board). The 
mission of our dedicated teaching and administrative team is to provide 
students with a 5-year general engineering qualification, specializing 
in digital technologies.

Based in Brest (700 students), Nantes (120 students) and Rennes (30 
students), our 3 campuses offer engineering programs in embedded 
electronics, Internet of Things, mobile robotics, artificial 
intelligence, business engineering, bio technologies, energy and 
sustainable development. Our school has experienced/registered a strong 
growth for a few years.

With more than 30 members, our research laboratory L at bISEN focuses on 
smart and autonomous systems (information processing and decision, 
sensors network, energy). Our laboratory is most dynamic, with 
publications in top-ranked journals. In this context, we are recruiting 
a postdoctoral fellow for 24 months in Rennes in the field of artificial 
intelligence.

The work consists in contributing to the development of a system which 
can extract some relevant information for studying the behavior of a 
people or a group of people. The information is acquired from multimodal 
sensors (images from optical camera, sensors such as accelerometers, 
thermometers, pressure sensors…) and is processed to extract relevant 
information (fall detection for elderly, suspicious activities to 
prevent terrorism…). The work will consist in delimiting some simple 
scenarios with different sensors, then to test and validate, and to 
complexify the scenarios by bringing new sensors and new kind of 
information in order to be able to trigger alerts related to the 
behavior. The candidate will focus on applying artificial intelligence 
methods on the existing data and evaluate the extracted information.

The candidate holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, 
Applied Mathematics or a related discipline. She/he should be 
independent in organizing their work, a spirit of initiative and 
creativity. A taste for teaching is also an appreciated skill for the 
position (some lectures to our students could be proposed). This 
position is funded by the Brittany region (SAD). The candidate must have 
spent at least 18 months outside France during the last 3 years. The 
post-doctoral position may be converted into a full-time 
research/teaching position in our institution at the end of the contract.

To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter before June, 30th 2019 
to Dr. Matthieu Saumard, matthieu.saumard at isen-ouest.yncrea.fr and Dr. 
Michaël Aron, michael.aron at isen-ouest.yncrea.fr