<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position at the ETS, Montreal, Canada. ETS is the fastest-growing and largest engineering school in Quebec, with an expanding team of highly qualified young researchers in image analysis, computer vision and deep learning, some of the priority areas of the school.</span></div><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px"><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The position is available after the candidate passes ETS application requirements and the candidate will start at her/his convenience (latest at winter 2021). Financial support is available for 4 years. This project will explore learning strategies for unsupervisedly out-of-distribution detection in dense prediction tasks, such as image segmentation. The main application domain of the devised models will be on neonatal brain multi-modal imaging, even though we will investigate their use in other medical applications, as well as in other computer vision problems. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Prof. Jose Dolz and Prof. Christian Desrosiers. Furthermore, the selected student is expected to work in close collaboration with pediatric clinicians and publish her/his research on top medical image computing and computer vision journals (MedIA, IEEE TMI, IJCV) and conferences (MICCAI, IPMI, CVPR, ECCV,etc).</span></div><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px"><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prospective applicants should have:</span></div><ul class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><div class="gmail-" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strong academic record with an excellent M.Sc. degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or electrical/biomedical engineering, preferably with expertise in more than one of the following areas: medical image analysis, machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition, semi/weakly supervised learning and/or optimization;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><div class="gmail-" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Experience with a deep learning framework (preferrably PyTorch, or Tensorflow).</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:11pt"><div class="gmail-" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(38,50,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Knowledge of unsupervised models for deep learning such as VAE or related models</span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will be highly regarded.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-varia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