We Are Hiring

Wed, 03 May 2023 15:00:00 +0900

ISLab is opening a few postdoctoral positions for computer vision and/or machine learning researchers.

About ISLab

ISLab is a research group at the University of Osaka, Japan, affiliated with D3 Center (IDS), the University of Osaka. Our mission includes providing/transferring the latest machine learning and data science techniques to other departments/institutes at the University of Osaka or any other organizations (e.g., universities and companies) through interdisciplinary collaborative research projects.

ISLab is also affiliated with Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Osaka, and we cultivate undergraduate and graduate students’ skills and knowledge in computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, and related fields.

Qualifications

We are looking for postdoctoral researchers who are an expert in and have some publications on (but not limited to):

Deep learning
Explainable AI
Computational photography and imaging
Probabilistic modeling
Vision and language

Your role

We have many projects on various topics, including application-specific projects involving our interdisciplinary collaborations and fundamental computer vision and machine learning projects, for example:

Medial applications
Digital humanities
Affective computing
Bias in neural networks and its mitigation

Please refer to our website for more details on some (but not all) of the projects.

All our researchers and students are encouraged to submit papers to top conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICCP, etc. (we have 5 papers at CVPR 2023 and 4 at CVPR 2022). We welcome researchers who can lead individual projects from the very beginning of their lifecycle (i.e., project proposals given a specific application or a topic) in collaboration with the faculty members. Interested researchers may advise undergraduate or graduate students.

All our researchers can use 20% of their time for their own research projects and are encouraged to submit applications for funding.

Compensation

The salary is based on the University of Osaka’s regulation (Japanese only), basically around 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 JPY. Some taxes and insurance fees (including health and employment insurance) will be deducted. The university regulation also offers paid leaves.

Are you interested in working with us?

Please send your CV and research proposal to Prof. Hajime Nagahara at: contactis.ids.osaka-u.ac.jp (replace with @)

We welcome your application!

For Prospective Students

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:27:37 +0900

We are looking for students who want to work with us as a part of our PhD degree program or master degree program. Please also refer to this page (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Osaka) for more details on the admission.

ISLab’s first priority is research projects, and we welcome students who have published papers as the first author or who have accomplished some research projects and can well present about them.

For students who have no or less experience in working on research projects, we have a 6-month internship program (with a limited capacity) so that you can try a project with aiming at submitting a paper to some conference and that we can see how you work.

If you are interested in working with us:

Please send an email at contact@is with adding .ids.osaka-u.ac.jp with your CV attached.

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