Can you tell me a little more about Idiap?

Idiap Research Institute is a university level research institute affiliated with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva. Idiap is concentrating research and development in the fields of Machine Learning, Speech Processing, Computer Vision, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Biometric Authentication, and Multimodal Man-Machine Interaction. Idiap currently numbers around 80 scientists, including permanent senior scientists, postdocs, and PhD students (usually awarded an EPFL degree).

Idiap has been selected as the "Leading House" of a large Research Network (National Center of Competence in Research) on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management" (IM2), which has opened up new opportunities for long term positions at different levels. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the primary language used at Idiap. Salaries are competitive with respect to other Swiss universities.