Décembre 2012 - Lisa_seminaires - mailman.iro.umontreal.ca

data scientist for finance
by Yoshua Bengio 12 Déc '12

12 Déc '12

> > > Justin Lane > Recruiter > The Human Capital Company > jlane(a)hucapco-us.com > (O) 845-940-1150 > > Looking for several candidate who have strong quant and technical skill. They will be working on building reports and analytics for various products including credit, interest rate and FX. The role will require occasional travel to NYC and meet with traders, sales, other strats. > > MSc or Phd – computer science, physics, statistics, etc > Must be hands on technical with a programming language – Java or C++ > Minimum of 2yrs experience > Financial industry experience is a plus > > -- > > > >

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Talk by Joerg Bornschein, Tuesday, December 11th, 11:00am, room TBD.
by Guillaume Desjardins 11 Déc '12

11 Déc '12

Please join us tomorrow morning for a talk by Joerg Bornschein. The talk will be held at 11:00 am in a room to be determined shortly (probably AA3195). Title: Parallelized training of nonlinear sparse coding Abstract: I'd like to give a short presentation about our work on two closely related nonlinear sparse coding models. Both models are nonlinear in the sense, that they assume active dictionary elements to combine nonlinearly when explaining the observed data. One of the models assumes binary latent variables, the other assumes continuous latents governed by a spike-and-slab prior. We train both models on natural image data and analyze the learned receptive fields. The models are trained using a parallelized EM implementation which we typically run on ~300 CPU cores in parallel. But the implementation demonstrated reasonable (weak) scaling behavior even when running on >1000 CPU cores.

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Fwd: big data mining geek open position at QMining
by Yoshua Bengio 10 Déc '12

10 Déc '12

Begin forwarded message: > From: Francis Pieraut <francis(a)qmining.com> > Subject: big data mining geek open position at QMining > Date: 10 décembre 2012 22:33:26 HNE > To: yoshua.bengio(a)gmail.com > > Hi Yoshua, > > If a lisa geek or a bored ex-lisa is looking for challenges in a startup and has interests in mining online marketing big data, here is the opening description for a great way to start a new life in January: > Backend Big Data Mining Geek > > Thanks fro sharing, > -- > Francis Piéraut, eng., M.A.Sc. > President & CEO - QMining > 1-514-464-3562 > http://fraka6.blogspot.ca/ >

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Fwd: position at Rogers
by Yoshua Bengio 10 Déc '12

10 Déc '12

Begin forwarded message: > From: Krzysztof Dzieciolowski via LinkedIn <member(a)linkedin.com> > Subject: position at Rogers > Date: 10 décembre 2012 19:14:46 HNE > To: Yoshua Bengio <yoshua.bengio(a)gmail.com> > Reply-To: Krzysztof Dzieciolowski <krzysztof.dzieciolowski(a)rci.rogers.com> > > LinkedIn > Krzysztof Dzieciolowski has sent you a message. > Date: 12/11/2012 > Subject: position at Rogers > hi Yoshua > I hope you are well. I have an opening for the junior position at Rogers in Montreal in data mining and analytics. I was wondering if you would know graduating student who might be interested in such position. SAS or SQL are essential in this job. If so they may send their CV till December 17 directly to me: > krzysztof.dzieciolowski(a)fidomobile.ca > Thanks! > > I------ > > > Description > > To design and develop marketing analyses and business insights, and ensure their ongoing communications and implementation with the Marketing and Database teams. > > Main responsibilities > Develop predictive models of customer behaviour and advanced data-mining solutions to create profitable marketing campaigns. > Proactively prepare pre- and post-campaign analyses and make recommendations for customer base retention, stimulation, cross-sell and customer acquisition initiatives. > Initiate and manage rapid and actionable analyses to identify new market opportunities and effectively communicate the results for implementation. > Provide customer insights and analyses of market trends, product and offer performance and price sensitivity. > Analyze retention, stimulation and acquisition campaigns and tactics to build strong, actionable insights to improve effectiveness of marketing initiatives. > Proactively identify new market opportunities based on customer behavioural analyses. > Quickly and accurately translate business needs and requirements into database analyses. > Provide business and analytical support to marketing initiatives as required. > Interpret and communicate key analytical learnings to the Marketing team. > Frequently present analyses results and insights to Marketing stakeholders. > > > > Qualifications > Requirements > MSc degree in Quantitative Sciences. > In-depth knowledge of advanced quantitative methods used in database marketing analysis. > Excellent computer and programming skills with advanced knowledge of SAS and SQL. > Three years of experience in database marketing, campaign analysis and/or business intelligence (an asset). > Proficiency in MS Office > Excellent knowledge of database concepts and software. > Practical experience in manipulating large datasets and working effectively with different data sources. > Willing to learn and team player with excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. > Ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas to general audiences. > Experience in the wireless or telecommunications industry (an asset). > View/reply to this message > Don't want to receive e-mail notifications? Adjust your message settings. > > > This email was intended for Yoshua Bengio (Full professor at Université de Montréal). Learn why we included this. © 2012, LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct. Mountain View, CA 94043, USA >

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