Christoph Lampert: "How does one become a researcher, and what does it mean to be one?

Описание: Abstract: Machine learning (=artificial intelligence) researcher might currently be one of the coolest jobs on the planet. But what does it take to become a machine learning researcher, and what do they actually do all day? The talk shines light on the steps for starting a scientific career (ideally in machine learning, but not only). In particular, how to successfully apply to a graduate school? And how to find a job in academia or industry research afterwards? I will also detail how the scientific community works behind the scenes: How do papers get published? How to build a scientific network and why? And where does the money for all of this come from? After the talk there be time for a Q&A.

Bio: Christoph Lampert received the PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 2003. In 2010 he joined the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) first as an Assistant Professor and since 2015 as a Professor. There, he leads the research group for Machine Learning and Computer Vision, and since 2019 he is also the head of ISTA's ELLIS unit. His research on computer vision and machine learning has won international and national awards, including a best paper prize at CVPR 2008. In 2012 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (consolidator phase) by the European Research Council. He currently is an Editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and Action Editor of the Journal for Machine Learning Research (JMLR), and he used to be Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).

More information about the event: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2022/

ESSCaSS 2022 has been supported by the University of Tartu ASTRA Project PER ASPERA (European Regional Development Fund).