Postdoctoral Fellow

6 months ago

Edmonton, Canada Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Full time

Salary:
**Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Postdoctoral Fellow**

This position offers a benefits package found at Postdoctoral Fellows Benefits.

The Department of Computing Science, and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), at the University of Alberta have an immediate opening for one postdoctoral fellow to work with Amii Fellow Professor Osmar Zaiane in the area of Artificial Intelligence research. Amii is one of three centers of

The postdoctoral fellow will work on a research project related to Machine Malfunction Prediction and Machine Adaptation using Machine Learning. This project investigates effective means to automatically predict machine failures and strategies to adapt a malfunctioning machine to continue its mission before maintenance can be performed. The research applies Machine learning and Data Mining and focuses on Reinforcement Learning techniques to achieve these goals.

For the postdoc position, we look for someone with sufficient knowledge and research experience in machine learning, reinforcement learning and GFlowNets.

**Qualifications**

You must hold a PhD degree within computer science or a closely related discipline. Qualifications within at least one of the following scientific areas are required:

- Reinforcement Learning
- Machine learning (e.g., semi-supervised learning, transfer learning, deep models, GFlowNets)
- Robotics

The following technical qualifications are also emphasized:

- Strong programming skills in at least one of Java, C/C++, and Python
- Software development and system implementation (practical product experience is a plus)

You are expected to be proactive, self-motivated, good at communication (both oral and written English), and cooperative in interdisciplinary collaboration.

The Department of Computing Science is home to nearly 50 tenured and tenure-track faculty members and over 200 graduate students in its PhD and thesis-based MSc programs.

The University of Alberta has over 31,000 undergraduate students, 7,600 graduate students, and 600 postdoctoral fellows are part of the university's exceptional learning and research environment.

Edmonton, Alberta's capital, offers a rich array of cultural, professional, sports, and entrepreneurial activities, with easy access to Canada's Rocky Mountains, and its public elementary and secondary schools provide high-quality education.

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