Research Assistant
- Employer
- NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Singapore
- Closing date
- 30 Jul 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Computer Science, Engineering & Technology
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Assistants / Officers
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Temasek Laboratories @ NTU invites applications for the position of Research Assistant.
The project studies algorithms for low resource automatic speech recognition (ASR) under cross-domain conditions for real-world applications. This is a challenging problem which is receiving much attention in the ASR research community recently, and research in low-resource and cross-domain is an on-going issue in the ASR research community.
The candidate will work to meet project requirements, specifically focusing on the low-resource and cross-domain ASR algorithms research.
Key Responsibilities:
- Data preparation of text and acoustic data to train ASR system
- Lexicon modeling, adding new words and corresponding pronunciation to the lexicon
- Language modeling, update language models, and state-of-the-art neural network language modeling
- Training state-of-the-art ASR system using Kaldi and new end-to-end toolkit
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related fields
- At least one-year ASR engineer experience on training speech recognition models including acoustic models, language models, and End-to-End ASR models
- Experience with Speech Recognition and AI frameworks including KALDI, tensorflow, and pytorch
- Possessing research experience and publications in ASR and its related fields is preferable
- Strong in programming languages, i.e. C/C++, scripting languages as python, perl
- Strong experience in working with Linux OS environment and high-performance computing cluster
- Familiar with Linux bash/shell packages such as awk, sed
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Company
Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is placed 11th globally, and 1st among the world's top young universities for six consecutive years (QS university rankings). It is also ranked No.2 among the world's elite young universities (aged 50 and under) that have excelled in producing high-quality research (Nature Index Young Universities).
We invite you to be part of this world-class university through the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Postdocotoral Fellowship programme.
About Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship (LKY PDF)
The prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship (LKY PDF) was established in 1991 under the Lee Kuan Yew Endowment Fund. The Fellowship supports and promotes young and outstanding researchers to realise their full potential in the areas of Engineering, Science, Humanities, and Medicine.
The Fellowship will be awarded concurrently with the candidate's appointment as a research staff in NTU.
Please click here for the detailed list of research areas available in the respective Colleges/Schools/Research Centres.
Eligibility:
• Excellent academic records and research potential.
• Recent PhD graduates, or with at most 1 postdoctoral training from a reputable university.
Terms and Conditions:
• The Fellowship will be tenable for a period of 3 years.
• In addition to an attractive remuneration, the successful candidate will be awarded a research grant of S$180,000 for research consumables and research related expenditure.
Application Procedure:
Please click here for more information.
We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Application Closing Date: 28 February 2020
- Telephone
- +(65)67911744
- Location
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50 NANYANG AVENUE
SINGAPORE
639 798
SG
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