Research fellow chAIrs in Grenoble [reposted]

MIAI, the Grenoble Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence , is opening three research fellow chairs in AI reserved to persons who have spent most of their research career outside France. To be eligible, candidates must hold a PhD from a non-French university obtained after January 2014 for male applicants and after 2014-n, where n is the number of children, for female applicants. They must also have spent more than two thirds of their research career since the beginning of their PhD outside France. These research fellow chairs aim to to address important and ambitious research problems in AI-related fields and will partly pave the way for the future research to be conducted in MIAI. Successful candidates will be appointed by MIAI and will be allocated, for the whole duration of the chair, a budget of 250k€ covering PhD and/or postdoc salaries, internships, travels. The deadline for applications is 11 March 2023, see here for details.

MCMC postdoc positions at Bocconi

[A call for postdoc candidates to work in Milano with Giacomo Zanella in the coming years under ERC funding. In case you are interested with a postdoctoral position with me at Paris Dauphine on multi-agent decision-making, data sharing, and fusion algorithms, do not hesitate to contact me, the official call for applications should come up soon!]

Three postdoc positions available at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), under the supervision of Giacomo Zanella and funded by the ERC Starting Grant “Provable Scalability for high-dimensional Bayesian Learning”. Details and links to apply available online.

The deadline for application is 28/02/2023 and the planned starting date is 01/05/2023 (with some flexibility). Initial contracts are for 1 year and are extendable for further years under mutual agreement.

Candidates will conduct research on computational aspects of statistical and machine learning methods, with a particular focus on Bayesian methodologies. The research activity, both in terms of specific topic and research approach, can adapt to the profile and interests of the successful candidates. Beyond working with the supervisor and coauthors on topics related to the grant project (see here and there for more details on the research topics of the supervisor and grant project), candidates will get the chance to interact with various faculty members, postdocs and PhD students of the Stats&ML group at Bocconi (see e.g. researchers at Bocconi).

Interested candidates can write to giacomo zanella at unibocconi for more information about the positions.

Postdoc in Paris [reposted]

The Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris offers postdoctoral positions in Mathematics and in fundamental Computer Science for academic year 2023-2024. The positions are located in Paris. Schedule of deadlines below (at 11:59 p.m., Paris time).

FSMP Postdoctoral program: from Tuesday October 4 to Wednesday November 30 2022

Offer description: https://sciencesmaths-paris.fr/en/nos-programmes-en/postdocs

Application form: https://applications.sciencesmaths-paris.fr/en/2012-2013-postdoctoral-positions-380.htm

MathInGreaterParis Postdoctoral program: from Tuesday October 4 to Wednesday November 30 2022

Offer description: https://www.mathingp.fr

Application form: https://www.mathingp.fr/en/post-doc-72.htm

Parisian funding for the incoming academic year [FSMP]

The Paris Foundation for Mathematical Sciences [FSMP] is launching calls for

• senior excellence chairs [deadline 30 November]
• post-doctoral positions [deadline 30 November]
• Master grants [deadline 9 February for students studying abroad and 9 May for students studying in a Paris university]

postdoc shortage

An interesting tribune in Nature (30 August) about the difficulty in hiring postdocs… I myself faced this difficulty in the recent years but though it was mostly due to unattractive French salaries and working conditions, or COVID issues (or myself!). Nature mentions politics, economics, ethics, and personal priorities as main reasons for the postdoctoral drought. In Britain, Brexit is definitely a central factor as candidates face enormous bills to secure entry to the United Kingdom (as Hai-Dang Dau, now in Oxford, was explaining to us after his successful PhD defense at ENSAE-CREST this morning). But more globally this may reflect a general exodus from academia towards company jobs, and their much more attractive salaries. Especially in STEM where Amazon and buddies created a new definition of “dream jobs”… Anyway,  I still have a prAirie postdoc position open in Paris Dauphine and the new PariSanté campus provides a great working environment, so feel free to contact me!