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2006 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship

IBM is proud to announce the 2006 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Computer Engineering in memory of Dr. Raviv, the founder and director of IBM's Haifa Research Laboratory. Dr. Raviv had a distinguished research career in Information Theory and was a pioneer in the Israeli high-tech industry.

IBM will offer one postdoctoral fellowship to a recent Ph.D. who shows exceptional promise for a research career in computer science or computer engineering. The fellowship will be for one year, with an opportunity for IBM to renew for an additional year. The stipend will be at least $95,000 (depending on experience of the recipient) plus reasonable moving and travel expenses. A candidate must have received the Ph.D. degree between January 2002 and August 2006.

Depending on proposed collaborations, the Fellow will spend most of his/her time at a lab of his/her choice from one of the following IBM Research lab: Almaden Research Center (California), Austin Research Lab (Texas), Thomas J. Watson Research Center (New York), Zurich Research Lab, Tokyo Research Lab. The Fellow will be free to follow his/her own research interests, but is expected to work closely with other IBM researchers. Applicants are encouraged to identify IBM Research groups working in the area of their interest.

To apply, please submit the following documents by April 4th, 2006:

• Resume (include contact email, postal address, and phone number)
• Thesis summary (one page maximum)
• Research proposal (also include proposed home lab and proposed IBM Research collaborators)
• Reprint of Fellow's most significant research publication (in PDF format)
• 3 Reference letters from PhD thesis advisor and two other professional colleagues. Letters should be sent directly by recommender to the email listed below.

The applicant is responsible for ensuring that all required materials arrive by April 4th, 2006. All documents must contain the applicant's name and email address. We prefer information as PDF or Word documents and sent to:

raviv-fellowship@watson.ibm.com

If information is only available as hard copy, please mail (tagged with applicant name and email address) to:

Josef Raviv Fellowship Committee
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Room 1N-B13
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532-1596 USA

A committee of distinguished IBM researchers will select the Fellow. This year's panel is: Yigal Hoffner, Arun Iyengar, Peter Franaszek, Tal Rabin (chair), KK Rao, Robin Williams, and Chai Wah Wu.

Applicants will be notified by mid May 2006. The fellowship will start on September 5, 2006, unless another date is agreed upon.

IBM has long pursued major research programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. More than 1200 CS/CE researchers work in IBM Research labs in six countries, pursuing topics in almost all disciplines of computer science. Last year, our researchers published more than 1000 journal, conference, and workshop papers. For more information about the breadth of our activities (and for any postdoctoral fellowship program updates), please see www.research.ibm.com/compsci and www.research.ibm.com/disciplines/electrical_eng.shtml.

IBM is committed to creating a diversified environment, and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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