The Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken, Germany, invites applications for
Ph.D. research positions
in the context of research projects on building knowledge bases from Web sources (e.g., by text mining and information extraction) and providing novel kinds of semantic search, statistical ranking, and knowledge discovery. The projects are carried out in the Department of Databases and Information Systems, headed by Gerhard Weikum, jointly with partners in digital libraries, web archival, and bioinformatics.
Applicants should have strong background in mathematics (stochastics, linear algebra, etc.), practical algorithmics (graph algorithms, search trees, optimization, etc.) and systems building experience. They should be knowledgable in at least two of the following areas: information retrieval and web search, database systems, text mining and NLP, statistical learning.
The Max-Planck Institute for Informatics provides a scientifically strong and stimulating environment; its working language is English. More details are given at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/. The Databases and Information Systems group consists of about 20 graduate students, postdocs, and senior researchers; it participates in the German Excellence Cluster "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" and several European Union projects. Saarbruecken is a mid-sized town, less than 2 train-hours away from Paris. It combines inexpensive living with a lively "savoir vivre" culture. Ph.D. researchers receive a monthly fellowship of 1365 Euros, free of taxes or other deductions.
Please send applications by email to: weikum@mpi-inf.mpg.de