Subject: Denis Burnham: 4 Positions at MARCS, Sydney, Australia From: Dan Ellis <dpwe(at)EE.COLUMBIA.EDU> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:38:01 -0500Dear List - I was sent the enclosed message to circulate on the list. -- DAn Ellis <dpwe(at)ee.columbia.edu> http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/ Dept. of Elec. Eng., Columbia University, New York NY 10027 (212) 854-8928 ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 18:45:36 +1100 From: Denis Burnham <d.burnham(at)uws.edu.au> Subject: 4 Positions Please note these 4 Positions in our MARCS lab Denis Burnham ----------------------------------------------------- Four Positions - People with Expertise in: Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science, Speech Science, Signal Processing or Related Areas 1. Post-Doctoral Fellow 2. Research Assistant - Psychology and/or Linguistics 3. Research Assistant -Signal Processing and/or Computing and/or Music Technology 4. Doctoral Scholarship Details below... ------------------------------------------------------------- The Macarthur Auditory Research Centre (MARCS) at the University of Western Sydney, Sydney Australia is seeking 1 postdoctoral fellow, 2 research assistants, and 1 doctoral student (on a MARCS scholarship). The successful applicants would join a jolly bunch of researchers working on speech and music processing in humans and machines. Currently at MARCS we hold 3 large Australian Research Council grants - 'From speech perception to language acquisition'; 'Speech perception by eye and ear'; 'Auditory Pattern Processing'; 1 SPIRT grant - 'The song and dance of mother and infant in health and depression'; and various UWS internal grants. Details about the MARCS lab and activities can be found at http://www.uws.edu.au/marcs/. Informal inquiries about all positions are encouraged and should be directed to Professor Denis Burnham - d.burnham(at)uws.edu.au or +61 (2) 9772 6681, who will also supply details of the application procedures. Applications should be lodged as soon as possible and before December 24, 2000. Post-Doctoral Fellow The postdoctoral fellow will be involved, with Denis Burnham, in the management of the above mentioned grants at an executive level; involved in the generation of research grant income, including applying for grants, talking with industry partners; and will pursue their own research interests within the specialisations of the MARCS lab. Applicants should hold a PhD (or be very close to submission or graduation) preferably in Psychology or Linguistics, and should be interested in pursuing a career in research. The position is available from January 2001, but for a suitable applicant the starting date could be delayed until mid-2001. In the first instance a 12-month contract can be offered with good prospects of extension beyond this period. Salary Range: $45,388 - $48,722 pa depending upon qualifications and experience. Research Assistant - Psychology and/or Linguistics A full-time research assistant (Level 5 or 6) with at least a good honours degree in psychology, linguistics, or a related area is required to prepare speech stimuli, run speech perception experiments with adults and children, and conduct statistical, acoustic, and phonetic analyses. Knowledge of or interest in any of the following would be an advantage - speech analysis, statistical packages, computer programming, music production, music sampling/sequencing or tone languages. The position is available from December, 2000. In the first instance a 12-month contract can be offered with good prospects of extension beyond this period. Salary Range: $33,617 - - $42,022 pa depending upon qualifications and experience. Research Assistant -Signal Processing and/or Computing and/or Music Technology A full-time research assistant (Level 5 or 6) with at least a good honours degree in signal processing, computer science, speech science, electrical engineering or a related area is required to prepare speech stimuli, analyse and synthesise speech, analyse large data sets, run neural net and modelling applications, and write computer programs (especially in C and MATLAB environments). Knowledge of or interest in any of the following would be an advantage - human information processing, music production, music sampling/sequencing, linguistics/phonetics, statistical analysis, or tone languages. The position is available from December, 2000. In the first instance a 12-month contract can be offered with good prospects of extension beyond this period. Salary Range: $33,617 - $42,022 pa depending upon qualifications and experience. Doctoral Scholarship A 3-year doctoral scholarship is offered for work on speech perception development, specifically the relative salience of tonal and segmental information for 6- to 9-month-old infants. The successful candidate will have a first class or very high IIA Honours degree in Psychology, and an interest in human development especially in the areas of perception and/or language. The student should be motivated, diligent and keen to succeed. Knowledge of or interest in any of the following would be an advantage - speech perception, speech perception development, child development, infant studies, linguistics/phonetics, music production, music sampling/sequencing, or tone languages. The normal stipend, $16,415 pa will be awarded, and there is the likelihood of some RA work or teaching. Applications can be considered up until Christmas, 2000, and Commencement date is early 2001. Potential applicants should contact Denis Burnham and also consult the web regarding the UWS PhD application procedure. See http://www.uws.edu.au/uws/uwsm/admin/StudentCentre/f_forms.html 'Application for Admission to a Postgraduate Research Program'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****NOTE MARCS WEBSITE CHANGE AS AT OCTOBER 19, 2000**** Denis Burnham Professor of Psychology Director, Macarthur Auditory Research Centre Sydney University of Western Sydney Macarthur PO Box 555, FASS 4B Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia Phone: +61 2 9772 6681 Fax: +61 2 9772 6736 Lab (MARCS): +61 2 9772 6560 Email: d.burnham(at)uws.edu.au web: http://www.uws.edu.au/marcs/ ------- End of Forwarded Message