Research staff member speech signal processing

At the Department of Communications Engineering (Fachgebiet Nachrichtentechnik) of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics of the University of Paderborn the following vacancy is to be filled:

Research Staff Member
(Salary according to IIa BAT)

Responsibilities:
Main responsibilities of the candidate will include

Research in various topics of speech signal processing, such as acoustic beamforming, blind source separation, speech enhancement, and robust automatic speech recognition
Development of software and system concepts for high-performance speech processing systems, among others for web-based communication systems

The candidate will be given the opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. degree.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate has a university degree (Diploma, M.Sc.) with distinction in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a strong background in statistical signal processing, and practical experience in software development, notably in C/C++.
The University of Paderborn explicitly encourages applications from female researchers and
handicapped people.

Overview
The Department of Communications Engineering (www-nt.uni-paderborn.de) is an active player in the speech processing research community. Within projects funded by EU, DFG or industry we carry out research both in front end speech signal processing algorithms and automatic speech recognition. The University of Paderborn is located on a beautiful campus, and Paderborn, a city of some 120.000 inhabitants, has a very attractive city center with many historical buildings and leisure places. Located some 100 km east of Dortmund, Paderborn is embedded in a region with offers plenty of outdoor activities.

Application:
Please send your applications either by postal mail or by Email (preferably in pdf-format) to

Prof. Dr. R. Häb-Umbach
Fachgebiet Nachrichtentechnik
Universität Paderborn
33095 Paderborn
haeb@nt.uni-paderborn.de

using the keyword NT-105.

For questions concerning the job opening, please contact haeb@nt.uni-paderborn.de