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About the department, institute, projectThe PhD candidate will be part of the Department of Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Computational Intelligence group) in a close partnership with the Institute of Informatics of the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab). Daily supervision will be performed by Dr. Jakub Tomczak (VU). The promotor will be Prof. A.E. Eiben (VU) and the co-promotor will be Prof. M. Welling (UvA).
About the project
The project is part of the national gravity project on Hybrid Intelligence and will be recruiting 27 PhD or postdoc positions in total. For more information on the project and the other positions, see
www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nlIf you are interested in other projects in addition to this position, you can upload your CV & letter also to:
http://bit.ly/HIC-VU thereby applying for "Talentpool for Hybrid Intelligence Centre". Scientists from the HI consortium who do not yet have applicants can select those for their own projects using this “Talentpool system”.