| Position Announcement: Research Assistant
A graduate Research Assistantship is currently available in the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at Marquette University. This position
will be associated with a recently funded NSF project on "Integration of
Stochastic and Dynamical Methods for Speech Technology". The goal of this
research is to discover time-domain analysis techniques using dynamical
systems methods that will lead to improved analysis of speech signals and to
improvements in speech recognition accuracy. This goal represents the
integration of two traditionally distinct research fields: statistical
signal processing and chaotic systems. Since signal processing is
fundamentally based on linear systems theory and the study of chaos is
inherently non-linear, these fields have little or no overlap outside of the
fact that both attempt to model the behavior of physical systems. This
research will integrate these very different viewpoints by applying
stochastic analysis and modeling tools from the signal processing field to
the problem of analyzing embedded phase spaces obtained from chaotic systems
analysis of time-series signals.
The Speech and Signal Processing lab and Knowledge and Information Discovery
lab are associated with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Marquette, located in Milwaukee, WI
(http://www.milwaukee.org). Marquette University is a well-known graduate
and undergraduate institution with over 10,000 students and a long history
of academic excellence. Interested individuals should send a letter of
interest to Dr. Mike Johnson at [email protected] or to Dr. Richard
Povinelli at [email protected], as well as applying to the
Marquette Graduate School at http://www.grad.mu.edu.
Compensation includes tuition reimbursement as well as a $15,000 stipend for
a one-year renewable period beginning August 2001 or January 2002. Ideally,
applicants will have had previous exposure to one or more of the following
areas: signal processing, speech processing, data mining, machine learning,
statistical pattern recognition, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, chaos
and dynamical systems. Post-doctorate positions are also available.
Additional contact information:
Dr. Mike Johnson
1515 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 288-0631
[email protected]
http://www.eng.mu.edu/johnson
Dr. Richard Povinelli
1515 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 288-7088
[email protected]
http://povinelli.eece.mu.edu
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