Two Phd Positions Mediagraph

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Zurich, Schweiz Department of Informatics DDIS Vollzeit

Department of Informatics DDIS_
**Two PhD Positions MediaGraph**
**80-100 % **:Human knowledge is inherently multi-modal, and it is more than just a collection of isolated pieces of information, irrespective of the form of expression. Instead, it emerges from the interconnectedness of all of these information fragments. Knowledge graphs are a powerful way of capturing such interconnected knowledge. Such graphs are effective for storing and relating information that can easily be expressed in textual form, by assigning a simple text label to every node in a graph or relating them to literals represented using strings or blobs. However, they so far fail to capture the richness of information, which is not easily expressed as a short piece of text.
The 'MediaGraph' project aims to extend the concept of a knowledge graph with all types of information which are currently representable as multimedia to be able to capture the richness of human knowledge. In contrast to a knowledge graph whose nodes are associated with a textual label (with a specification arising from relations to other entities and labels), the nodes in a media graph will be able to represent and interrelate any part of any multimedia document. The resulting graph will not only describe the semantic but also the stylistic and technical relations between the documents and their components and form the basis for novel media interaction paradigms.

**Your responsibilities**: For this project, we are seeking a motivated PhD student to help make MediaGraph a reality. Requirements include an MSc in Computer Science or a related discipline, a background in both theoretical and applied aspects of computer science, as well as a passion for discovering new things. Experience in the areas of databases, data management, semantic web technologies, multimedia processing, multimedia analysis, machine learning, and/or signal processing are considered a plus.
The PhD Student will be in charge of the development of manual as well as automated construction methods for MediaGraphs and will define and own some of the practical use-cases to which MediaGraph will be applied in practice. They will also contribute to the design and implementation of representation, querying, and evaluation mechanisms for the graphs.

**Your profile**:

- MSc in Computer Science or a related discipline, the degree should be attained by the time you start the position
- A passion for discovering new things

**What we offer**:

- A highly exciting, timely, and societally important as well as meaningful research topic
- A diverse and multi-disciplinary research group of highly motivated colleagues who are passionate about topics at the intersection of computer science, AI, and social science
- Strong support of your professional/career development
- Attractive work environment both within the research group and beyond: the University of Zurich is one of Switzerland's leading Universities in the middle of a vibrant, cosmopolitan city that regularly ranks as one of the cities with the highest quality of life in the world.
- Generous support for professional travel and research needs

**Place of work**: Binzmühlestrasse 14, Zürich, Switzerland

**Start of employment**: Employment start date to be mutually agreed.
To apply, please gather your curriculum vitae, all grade transcripts, selected publications (if available), a list of at least three references, and your BSc/MSc theses as PDF files.


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