PHD STUDIES IN MACHINE LEARNING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED I am looking for several new PhD students to start in Fall 2008, in the general area of machine learning. Specific interests include spectral and probabilistic algorithms for manifold learning (dimensionality reduction) and clustering; mean-shift algorithms; and others. All these can often be tied with specific applications in computer vision (eg segmentation, articulated pose tracking, image registration); computer speech (eg articulatory inversion, audiovisual speech processing); robotics and computer graphics (eg inverse kinematics); and related areas. I'm looking for individuals strongly motivated to earn a PhD in computer science or electrical engineering and publish their work in leading conferences and journals in the areas mentioned above. Students may be funded by teaching assistantships and external grants. Desired qualifications: - A BS or preferably an MS in CS, EE or related areas. - Strong mathematical basis (multivariate calculus, linear algebra, probability & statistics, numerical analysis, etc.). - Strong programming ability in Matlab and C. For further information: - My research: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mcarreira-perpinan. For a sample of specific work I'm currently doing, see my recent papers at NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, CVPR, Eurospeech, ICRA, ICASSP. - EECS graduate group at UC Merced: http://eecs.ucmerced.edu. - Application procedure: http://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact me directly. The Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) graduate group at UC Merced consists of 8 core faculty (with 3 more faculty joining us next Fall), 14 PhD students and 1 MS student. The group has collective interests in machine learning, computer vision, speech processing, computer graphics, robotics, sensor networks, intelligent systems and computational neuroscience, among others. It has received funding from NSF, NIH, CITRIS, DoE and other agencies as well as companies. UC Merced is the tenth campus of the University of California and the first American research university built in the 21st century. It is located in the California Central Valley, at one hour drive from the Yosemite National Park and two hours from San Francisco. -- Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan EECS, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced 5200 N. Lake Road. Merced, CA 95343 Tel. 209-2284545, Fax 209-2284047 http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mcarreira-perpinan --

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