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Postdoctoral research position in machine learning and
bioinformatics

Adaptive Informatics Research Centre and
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology,
Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

We are looking for a postdoc for a new project on modeling of
biological networks, and probabilistic data fusion. The project is at
the crossroads of machine learning, in particular probabilistic
methods, interactomics in bioinformatics, and more generally network
models.

The position is in the research group Statistical Machine Learning
and Bioinformatics. The group develops machine learning methods for
statistical data mining, information visualization, exploratory data
analysis, and in general for probabilistic modeling of data. The
methods are being developed in bioinformatics projects, where we
collaborate with groups of the application areas. The idea is to use
the applications as testbenches for the methods, and the methods for
solving research problems in the application area.

Our current methodological foci include discriminative generative
modeling, data fusion by modeling dependencies between data sets,
supervised unsupervised learning, and models for defining and
extracting "relevant" signals from data. Modeling of (biological)
networks will be one of the focus areas.

The research group on is based in Helsinki University of Technology,
Laboratory of Computer and Information Science. We are members of AIRC
(Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, national CoE), HIIT (Helsinki
Institute for Information Technology), and PASCAL (Pattern Analysis,
Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning, EU FP6 NoE). There
will be ample opportunities of interaction with other research groups
in the computational data analysis community of Helsinki area. More
information at

http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/mi
http://www.cis.hut.fi
http://www.hiit.fi

Why Finland? Because of the good science in computational data
analysis and machine learning! But Helsinki is not bad either;
everybody speaks English, it is not cold during summer, and 

http://www.helsinki.fi/en/index.shtml

The position is for two years, starting asap. Requirements are a
doctoral degree in a relevant field (computer science, mathematics,
statistics), strong analytical skills, programming skills, and
experience in bioinformatics or interest in that direction.

Salary will be assigned based on experience, according to the national
university salary system. The range will be 2382.90-3808.92
Eur/month. Deadline for applications is March 4. Please include full
CV, links to your thesis and 2-3 of your most relevant publications, a
statement of research interests, and 2-3 references, and send them to
Ms Leila Koivisto, leila dot koivisto at tkk dot fi.

Sincerely yours,

Samuel Kaski
Professor of Computer Science (Data Analysis and Bioinformatics)
Helsinki University of Technology
http://www.cis.hut.fi/sami