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FYI - job opportunities at Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spinoff
working in affective computing<br>
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<td>Help w/ awesome visioneers to join Affectiva</td>
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<td>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:55:40 +0200</td>
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<td>Rana el Kaliouby <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kaliouby@media.mit.edu"><kaliouby@media.mit.edu></a></td>
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<div>hi Matthew, </div>
<div>Hope this email finds you well and that you're having a great
summer. </div>
<div>Wanted to share some good news and seek your help. </div>
<div>Affectiva just closed a round of funding with top-tier
investors and we're looking to grow our Visioneering team. </div>
<div>Since you run one of the top facial / behavioral analysis
groups, I was wondering if you had any star students or alums
that you could point our way. </div>
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<div>We have a few openings including a Computer vision
scientist and a Visioneering lead / director, details of which
I have pasted below for easy circulating. </div>
<div>(This page <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.affectiva.com/company/#careers">http://www.affectiva.com/company/#careers</a> has
all the job opportunities listed) </div>
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<div>Thanks - and hope to run into you at some conference soon :) </div>
<div>best</div>
<div>Rana </div>
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<div>About Affectiva<br>
Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is a global leader and
industry expert in emotion measurement technologies with
innovative and cutting-edge products such as Q Sensor™, a
wearable biosensor, and Affdex™, facial expression recognition
technology. Based on the world's largest repository of naturally
occurring emotional response, Affectiva has become the
global standard for real-world accuracy and relevance in emotion
analytics. Affectiva is privately held with backing from the
National Science Foundation, and top-tier investors such as
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. We are located in Waltham,
MA with easy access to public transport.</div>
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<div>COMPUTER VISION SCIENTIST<br>
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Join the leaders in emotion recognition and develop
emotion analytics powered by the largest repository of emotion
data in the world. Affectiva is looking for a highly
talented and motivated Computer Vision Scientist to contribute
to its suite of emotion algorithms. The ideal candidate would
have 5 years of exceptional hands-on experience in computer
vision and/or machine learning. For a hard-core computer vision
and/or machine learning scientist who wants to take research out
of the lab and into the real world, this is a dream job!<br>
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Responsibilities<br>
The ideal candidate will advance our core emotion recognition
algorithms; choosing discriminative features that represent
the data, and building a smart machine learning system that
yields robust and accurate performance. The responsibilities of
the Computer Vision Scientist include:<br>
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· Research, develop and implement state-of-the-art machine
learning solutions to the problems of emotion recognition<br>
· Research, develop and implement meaningful features in
the data that discriminate a range of emotions<br>
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Requirements<br>
We’re looking for a motivated, self-directed and
talented professional to add to Affectiva’s Science team.
Successful candidates for this role will have:<br>
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· A Masters/PhD degree in EE/Computer Science with
specialization in machine learning, computer vision or related
areas.<br>
· Solid background and experience in “large-scale” machine
learning, noisy data, semi-supervised classification;<br>
· Excellent programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, C/C++.
Python);<br>
· Expertise in facial / human behavior analysis, tracking
and classification<br>
· Industry experience researching and implementing machine
learning models for real-world data;<br>
· Commercial software development experience<br>
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<div>VISIONEERING LEAD / DIRECTOR<br>
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Lead Affectiva’s Science Team and build the leading emotion
analytics platform powered by the largest repository of emotion
data in the world. Affectiva is looking for a highly talented
and motivated Visioneering Leader to contribute to our emotion
algorithms and grow and lead our visioneering team. The
ideal candidate would have 5-7 years of exceptional
hands-on experience in computer vision and/or machine learning,
ideally in facial or behavioral analysis and would have several
years of experience managing a team of engineers / scientists.<br>
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Responsibilities: <br>
Key responsibilities include:<br>
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· Translate business needs from the executive team to
science roadmap and tasks<br>
· Lead the science team including overall prioritization
and goal setting.<br>
· Research, develop and implement state-of-the-art computer
vision and machine learning for emotion classification;<br>
· Design and contribute to the implementation of
Affectiva’s Science framework for continual labeling, training
and validation of our classifiers.<br>
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Requirements<br>
We’re looking for a motivated, entrepreneurial and talented
professional to lead the Affectiva Science team. Successful
candidates for this role will have:<br>
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· A Masters/PhD degree in EE/Computer Science with
specialization in machine learning, computer vision or
related areas.<br>
· 5-7 years of experience leading a team of engineers /
scientists.<br>
· Experience with agile methodology.<br>
· Solid background in computer vision, ideally with some
expertise in facial / human behavior analysis.<br>
· Solid background and experience in machine learning,
especially handling big data.<br>
· Excellent programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, C/C++,
Python);<br>
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<div>Interested candidates should submit resumes to: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jobs@affectiva.com">jobs@affectiva.com</a></div>
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Rana el Kaliouby, PhD<br>
Research Scientist | MIT Media Lab<br>
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Affectiva<br>
Office: +1 (781) 996-2120 <br>
Mobile: +1 (617) 599-5256<br>
Twitter: @kaliouby, @affectiva </div>
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