<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Liberation Sans",FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px;font-weight:bold">A Ph.D. fellowship on functional programming language technology for high-performance deep probabilistic programming is available at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.</span><br></div><div class="gmail-item-synopsis gmail-dynamic-text" style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14.4px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:18px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Liberation Sans",FreeSans,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Application deadline: January 15th, 2020.</p></div><div class="gmail-item-text gmail-dynamic-text" style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14.4px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Liberation Sans",FreeSans,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Two Ph.D. fellowships are available on <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">deep probabilistic programming</em> (DPP) at the University of Copenhagen.  The aims of one of these is to advance <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">functional high-performance computing</em> for DPP. This includes, but is not limited to, contributing to novel functional language and compiler technology for differential programming/automatic differentiation; domain-specific language design for programming with probability distributions and sampling from them; generating high-performance vectorized multicore or GPU code; and applications to deep learning, Bayesian inference and probabilistic programming.  </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Application deadline:<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> January 15th, 2020</strong>.<br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">For more information and for applying for the position, please see <a href="https://di.ku.dk/ominstituttet/ledige_stillinger/phd-fellow-dpp/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration-line:none">https://di.ku.dk/ominstituttet/ledige_stillinger/phd-fellow-dpp/</a>.</p></div></div></div>