Postdoc offer (Location: Paris)

Deadline for application: TBA         Contact: Ismaël Castillo

We seek a candidate in statistics/machine learning with an excellent statistical and mathematical background attested by publications in top-level journals (AoS, Bernoulli, JMLR,...) and/or top-level conferences (NeurIPS, COLT,...).

The successful candidate will work together with members of the ANR BACKUP team. Topics of interest include: 

• Bayesian nonparametrics, e.g.  contraction rates, Variational Bayes

• Statistical understanding of Deep Neural Networks

• Uncertainty Quantification (UQ), conformal prediction

• High-dimensional models: UQ for functionals, de-biasing, multiple testing

• Kernels, kernel-based methods

This is a 2 years postdoc, to be spent at both at the LPSM laboratory on the Jussieu campus in the center of Paris, working with Ismaël Castillo and local members of BACKUP, and LMO laboratory at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay (40mn by local train from the center of Paris), working with Gilles Blanchard, Guillermo Durand, Elisabeth Gassiat and local members of BACKUP. 

Salary: between 34k to 40k euros (gross) per year, depending on experience.

Starting date: TBA

Application file: please send the following

•  CV

•  name and contact of 3 academic references

•  motivation letter (including outline of research plans)