5-year PhD position: Explainable Affective Computing for Mental Healthcare 1145 views

The Department of Information and Computing Sciences at the Utrecht University is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research on explainable and accountable affective computing for mental healthcare scenarios in Social and Affective Computing group.

Qualifications:

• Applicant must hold Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, and/or fields related to the project focus;
• Applicant must demonstrate interest or experience with processing of audio/acoustics, vision/video or natural language;
• Applicant must have experience with machine learning, affective computing, information fusion, multimodal interaction;
• Applicant must possess demonstrable coding skills in high-level scripting languages such as MATLAB, python or R;
• Applicant must possess excellent English oral and writing skills.

Applications:

Apply online including:

• Cover letter describing the reasons behind interest in the position (a one-page)
• A full academic CV
• A copy of MSc thesis (if available)
• Contact details of two references