Postdoctoral Researcher (Audio Technology)

Job summary

This position is a 3-year postdoctoral role focused on advancing context-aware audio technologies for smart glasses as part of an EU-funded project. The role involves collaboration with an international team to develop innovative hearing solutions that enhance communication for individuals with hearing impairments.

Qualifications

• PhD degree (or equivalent) in computer science, AI, engineering, cognitive hearing science, or a related field.
• Strong track record in real-time audio-visual signal processing, communication science, computer vision, or audio machine learning.
• Practical experience with first-person video, real-time algorithms, AI audio-video applications, and multimodal systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct human communication experiments and create a large-scale audio-visual communication dataset.
• Implement real-time closed-loop wearable systems and evaluate technology with human users.
• Collaborate with the project team on developing AI models for audio beamforming and spatial sound reconstruction.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with human multi-sensor experiments and real-time audio-visual signal processing.
• Passion for building real-time prototypes for human interactions.
• Documented experience with closed-loop hearing technologies or cognitive audio solutions is advantageous.

Education

• A PhD in a relevant field is required.

Tools

• Familiarity with audio-visual technologies, real-time processing systems, and data curation techniques.