Postdoc Position: Speech Recognition and Speech Modeling, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to perform basic research as part of a two year project in the general area automatic speech recognition. The position will be in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The candidate should have hands-on experience with speech processing systems and should have a strong background in statistical modeling, signal processing, and/or speech analysis. The candidate should also have facility with the use of high level programming languages for developing prototype systems and simulations. Fluency in English is required and the ability to work in a small team is also important.

The position is in support of a Canadian funded NSERC project that is being conducted in association with the European 6th Frame Project DIVINES. Active collaborations with the speech and language groups at the Centre de Recherche Informatique Montreal (CRIM) and the Language Technology Research Center are on-going as part of the program. The overall goal of the project is to overcome deficiencies in existing acoustic feature analysis and phonetic and lexical modeling techniques. This will be accomplished through a methodology involving the diagnosis and modeling of intrinsic variabilities in ASR under a variety of conditions.

Interested and enthusiastic candidates are encouraged to apply. The preferred starting date for the position is May/June, 2006 and the duration is from 12 to 24 months.

McGill University is located in Montreal, an exciting cosmopolitan city in the Province of Quebec. Montreal is the home of a number of speech recognition Research and Development Laboratories including CRIM, Nuance Canada, Yahoo, Nu Echo, and others. It is also the home of a number of Universities and colleges besides McGill including Concordia University, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, INRS, University of Montreal, and the University of Quebec. Montreal is composed of a bilingual population with a blend of European and North American culture.

Qualified applicants are invited to submit a resume together with the names and addresses of two references by email to:

Richard Rose
McGill University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McConnell Engineering Building, Room 813
3480 University Street
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2A7
Canada

email: rose@ece.mcgill.ca
phone: 514-398-1749
fax: 514-398-4470