The Network Science PhD program is a pioneering interdisciplinary program that provides the tools and concepts aimed at understanding the structure and dynamics of networks arising from the interplay of human behavior, socio-technical infrastructures, information diffusion and biological agents.

 

We expect applications from talented students from around the world with strong interdisciplinary interests.The priority application deadline for Fall 2017 is February 1, 2017.

Source: www.networkscienceinstitute.org

The Network Science Institute (NetSI) is a multi-disciplinary research community supporting innovative research and training in network science. The successful candidate will join an outstanding interdisciplinary community represented by 10 core faculty members representing 7 departments, including Physics, Computer science, Political Science, Business, Health Science, Communications, and Mathematics. 

The successful candidate will be offered a departmental tenure home commensurate with their expertise. NetSI is dedicated to creating synergy among faculty expertise, across departments and colleges, with shared computing infrastructure, active lecture series and vibrant collaborative research opportunities. Candidates’ are expected to actively engage our distinctive interdisciplinary, collaborative culture. Candidate’s research plans should extend beyond their home discipline to engage with other fields in other domains of network sciences. Substantive foci are open and broad, including network structure and dynamics, spreading and diffusion, relational and clustered modeling, automated mining of qualitative data, theoretical physics and computational models of social processes, and computationally intensive data collection and analysis. 

Source: www.networkscienceinstitute.org

Applications are invited for two 9-month, tenure-track or tenure positions at the Assistant or Associate levels beginning July 1, 2017, as a part of the cluster hiring initiative in Mathematical Modeling of Complex Biosystems at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). 

 

The University of California at Riverside (UCR) is implementing a major expansion of our faculty and investing in state-of-the-art research facilities to support their work. This expansion will build critical mass in 34 vital and emerging fields of scholarship, foster truly cross-disciplinary work, and further diversify the faculty at one of America’s most diverse research universities. We encourage applications from scholars committed to excellence and seeking to help define the research university for the next generation. For more information about our hiring initiative or to submit an application, please visit clusterhiring.ucr.edu or academicpersonnel.ucr.edu .

 

https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00675
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00676

Source: aprecruit.ucr.edu

This post presents WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. We show that WaveNets are able to generate speech which mimics any human voice and which sounds more natural than the best existing Text-to-Speech systems, reducing the gap with human performance by over 50%.
We also demonstrate that the same network can be used to synthesize other audio signals such as music, and present some striking samples of automatically generated piano pieces.

Source: deepmind.com

The College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) at the University of Vermont (UVM) is seeking applications for four tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science and Complex Systems, with a Fall 2017 start date. These positions will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, or Associate Professor with tenure for outstanding candidates already at that rank. We seek candidates with active research in one or more of the following areas:
• Cybersecurity, especially in languages and verification, or applications of machine learning or complex systems approaches to cybersecurity.
• Computational Intelligence, broadly defined to include data mining, machine learning, data science, bio-inspired approaches, and Deep Learning, with broad potential for applications to Big Data in areas such as biology, medicine, cybersecurity, social science, sociotechnical systems, and/or environmental science.
• Complex Systems, modeling and/or analysis of emergent phenomena allied with data-driven empirical work, ideally with applications in biology, medicine, cybersecurity, the social sciences, sociotechnical systems, and/or environmental science.
• Computational Biology, computational approaches to the study of biological systems such as in genomics, proteomics, phylogenetics, biological pathways or networks, etc.

Source: www.uvm.edu