job opportunities

Human Language Technology Centre (hltc@cs.ust.hk)
Sat, 1 Mar 1997 00:05:41 +0800 (HKT)

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Positions available immediately
Research associate / Postdoc / RA / Software engineer
Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing

HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY CENTER
(HLTC)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dept of Computer Science / Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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The Human Language Technology Center at HKUST is offering the
following research and engineering positions within a spoken language
translation and understanding project, available immediately:

THE POSITIONS:

- Research associate / Postdoctoral researcher (PhD in EE or CS):
Research in speech recognition, machine translation, and/or
natural language processing. Experience with one or more of the
following is a plus: ASR systems, MT systems, statistical pattern
recognition, dependency grammars.
Salary scale: HK$ 23,725-41,140/month ( US$ 3,000-5,300/month )

- Research assistant (MS or BS, in EE or CS):
Research and system implementation. Programming skills in
C/C++/Unix/Windows required.
Salary scale: HK$ 13,415-26,020/month ( US$ 1,700-3,300/month )

- Software engineer (MS or BS, in EE or CS):
System implementation and integration. Programming skills in
C/C++/Unix/Windows required. Experience with software engineering,
development tools, and user-interface design a plus.
Salary scale: HK$ 20,505-32,695/month ( US$ 2,600-4,200/month )

- System administrator (MS or BS, in EE or CS):
Maintenance of large-scale software environments, development tools,
networking. Skills in Unix/Windows required.
Salary scale: HK$ 20,505-32,695/month ( US$ 2,600-4,200/month )

HLTC is a designated High Impact Area research center at HKUST.
Its six core faculty members from the EEE and the CS departments
specialize in speech and signal processing, statistical and corpus-
based NLP, machine translation, information extraction, Chinese
language processing, and related fields.

Interested persons please contact Ms. Brenda Tam (hltc@cs.ust.hk).
Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. First
priority will be given to applications received before May 10th, 1997.