The "Multisensory Research Group" Research Group (MRG) of the Center for Brain and Cognition of the Pompeu Fabra University requires a place for part-time collaboration scholarships.

We are looking for a person to provide research support for the study of music and concentration. In this study we are going to test the ability of music generated by the mobile phone application to increase performance in sustained attention task. 
Task for the research assistant will consist of helping in software development and building simple setups for experiments, database maintenance, update and recruitment of experimental subjects, group web maintenance and update, assistance in collecting and analyzing of experimental data, support in administrative and organizational tasks. 
Requirements:
- Programming skills (Matlab)
- Knowledge of English
- Organization, responsibility and neatness
It will be valued:
- UPF students of the latest undergraduate or master's degree courses (Higher
Polytechnic School, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences ...)
- Knowledge in signal processing
Conditions:
- Dedication: 25 hours / week.
- Schedule: to be agreed.
- 6 month contract (renewable).
- Salary: 875 per month.
- Incorporation: January
Selection process:
Those interested should send a short presentation letter and CV to the following email address: [email protected], indicating the reference "Collaboration scholarship 2019". After reviewing the CVs, in a second phase, some of the candidates will pass to the personal interview phase.

PART-TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANTS SPEECH ACQUISITION AND PERCEPTION GROUP AND SPEECH PRODUCTION BILINGUALISM GROUP (CBC-UPF)

Applications are invited for part-time Research Assistants in the Speech Acquisition and Perception group (SAP), https://www.upf.edu/web/sap, and the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group, https://www.upf.edu/web/spb, at Pompeu Fabra University.These positions are supported in part by the MSCA ITN project MULTIMIND "Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe" (ref. 765556) financed by the EU Horizon 2020.

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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Applications are invited for part-time Research Technician in the Computational Neuroscience Group (CNS), at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), https://www.upf.edu/web/cns/ This position is supported in part by the Spanish national project Complexity of Brain States (ref. PSI2016-75688-P) financed by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Technical support and data management for the group’s computational cluster and workstations. Prepare scripts, check equipment, data organization, database management and preliminary data analysis.

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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Applications are invited for a part time research assistant in the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group (SPB), at the Center for Brain and Cognition in Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The position is covered by the project entitled “Reducing biases through foreign language use” (ref. PSI2017-84539-P) financed by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Job Description

• Research support tasks related to adult studies.

• Recruiting subjects to participate in the project research studies.

• Update of the adult participant database.

• Prepare experiments and translation control.

• Data organization and preliminary analysis.

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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Applications are invited for a part time research assistant in the Reasoning and Infant Cognition Group (RICO) and in the Multisensory Research Group (MRG) at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). The position is covered by the projects entitled: “Natural Logical Reasoning: Mechanisms, Interactions and Errors” (ref. PSI2016-75910-P) and “Predicting Multisensory Interactions from Pre-Stimulus Activity” (ref. PSI2016-75558-P) financed by the Spanish Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Job description

• Manage the recruitment at schools and other educational centers to participate in the studies

•Prepare collaborations contract and other documentation needed to set up collaborations with other institutions

• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary

• Provide ready access to all experimental data for the faculty researcher and/or supervisor

• Manage the equipment and supplies necessary for the projects

• Manage project meetings and follow-up decisions in project meetings

• Summarize project results

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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The Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona invites applications to support UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti) innovation and development tasks within the European HDR4EU project, focused on creating a low-end HDR interactive visualisation tool on the web combining, in real time, SDR video streaming images with HDR synthetic images locally rendered able to support engaging collaborative immersive experiences, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment.

UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti), a research group within ETIC (https://www.upf.edu/web/etic) is looking for a final year student or a recent graduate, preferably in Computer Science, to support UPF-GTI innovation and development tasks within the European HDR4EU project, focused on creating a low-end HDR interactive visualisation tool on the web combining, in real time, SDR video streaming images with HDR synthetic images locally rendered able to support engaging collaborative immersive experiences, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment, integrating real-time solutions for photorealistic image synthesis, illumination estimation, chroma keying and tone mapping, and taking into account the web programming specificities. The candidate should have a strong background in 3D Computer Graphics, and specific experience in WebGL and physically based rendering is required. It will be advantageous to have previous experience in collaborating in innovation and European projects. UPF-GTI is looking for candidates that can join the project immediately and become part of it, contributing with productive results in the very short term. The job could be combined with pursuing a final degree project. The working language will be English.

Application  deadline: 18/12/2018

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The Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona invites applications to support UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti)) innovation and development tasks within the European SAUCE project, focused on character animation and, specifically, motion stylization, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment, including annotation tools and collaborative editing.

UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti), a research group within ETIC (https://www.upf.edu/web/etic) is looking for a final year student or a recent graduate, preferably in Computer Science, to support UPF-GTI innovation and development tasks within the European SAUCE project, focused on character animation and, specifically, motion stylization, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment, including annotation tools and collaborative editing. The candidate should have a strong background in 3D Computer Graphics, and specific experience in WebGL and character animation is required. It will be advantageous to have previous experience in collaborating in innovation and European projects. UPF-GTI is looking for candidates that can join the project immediately and become part of it, contributing with productive results in the very short term. The job could be combined with pursuing a final degree project. The working language will be English.

Application  deadline: 18/12/2018

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The Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona invites applications for multiple faculty positions and in all topical areas of interest of the department. We seek highly qualified applicants with a strong commitment to excellence in research and teaching.

Application  deadline: 20/10/2018

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Department of Information and Communications Technologies invites applications for several teaching faculty positions and in all areas of interest of the department. We seek highly qualified applicants with a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and the ability to teach at all levels.

Application deadline: 26/07/2018

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FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPER POSITION OPEN

The MTG is looking to hire a web developer to start as soon as possible.

This position will involve working at MTG-UPF in Barcelona to design and develop user interfaces, integrate them to the existing back-ends and provide a lead on front-end solutions for the whole team. The candidate will be specially involved in two projects, Freesound and Music-Critic.

Application deadline: 13/03/2018

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NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING RESEARCHER

We are looking for a NLP researcher to carry out research and implementation of semi-supervised or unsupervised techniques for the adaptation of linguistic processors and NLP resources to different applications, domains, and languages

Application deadline: 31/01/2018

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DEVELOPER POSITION

The technitian will be involved in the improvement of the web technologies for the songs recommendation and the testing of the managment of community and users to small and medium scale in the frame of the project CASAS: Community-Assisted Singing Analysis and Synthesis.

Application deadline: 20/01/2018

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This position will involve working at MTG-UPF in Barcelona to develop signal processing and machine learning algorithms for automatic quality assessment and semantic annotation of music audio in the context of digital music distribution systems in collaboration with La Cupula Music.

Application deadline: 31/01/2018

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Main work is aimed at improving the actual implementation and results by:

1. Implementing a better version of our three-way handshake protocol on top of a real world application (such as Dropbox) to collect data from real users;

2. Test the new dataset in the NIST Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators to check its quality;

3. Reproduce some well-known cryptographic attacks[1] against our latency based random number generator and compare its behaviour to other PRNGs.

Application deadline: 12/11/2017

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The research group GPI  (UPF) is seeking a part-time research assistant who will collaborate in a national project (TIN2015-70410-C2-1-R (MINECO/FEDER, UE) where we study computational models and techniques for the automatic analysis and processing of video sequences. We are interested in different research problems such as depth estimation from monocular video, dynamic object segmentation, video inpainting and optical flow estimation.

Application deadline: 30/11/2017

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The research group SPECS is currently looking for:

1) a research assistant or engineer to contribute to the project from a technical point of view. The aim is to build a validation platform consisting in an arena where multiple physical mobile robots interact together.

2) one PhD candidate position with strong interest in multi-agent systems, robotics or complex systems Good programming skills are required, preferably in Python, C++. 

Application deadline: 01/12/2017

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The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, invites applications for a quantum field theorist for communication engineering to give support in the preparation of a report on the quantum reinterpretation of some quantities involved in information transmission.

Application deadline: 30/09/2017

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The Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Group (http://gustavodecolab.com/) of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra offers a position in Linux system administration for its high‐performance computer cluster.

Application deadline: 30/09/2017

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Applications are invited for a part-time research assistant position in the MULTISENSORY RESEARCH GROUP, led by Salvador Soto-Faraco.

Application deadline 20/01/2017 

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The  Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) invites applications for a part-time lecturers in several courses in the Information and Communication Technologies degrees. 

Application deadline: 5th of June 2017

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The  Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) invites applications for a senior faculty position in Computer Science.