viernes, 30 de marzo de 2012

Max Planck Institute for Informatics: Junior Research Group Leaders

The Max Planck Institute for Informatics, as the coordinator of the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication (MPC-VCC), invites applications for Junior Research Group Leaders in the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication


The Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communications offers young scientists in information technology the opportunity to develop their own research program addressing important problems in areas such as

- image communication
- computer graphics
- geometric computing
- imaging systems
- computer vision
- human machine interface
- distributed multimedia architectures
- multimedia networking
- visual media security.


The center includes an outstanding group of faculty members at Stanford's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Saarland University.

The program begins with a preparatory 1-2 year postdoc phase (Phase P) at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, followed by a two-year appointment at Stanford University (Phase I) as a visiting assistant professor, and then a position at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a junior research group leader (Phase II). However, the program can be entered flexibly at each phase, commensurate with the experience of the applicant.

Applicants to the program must have completed an outstanding PhD. Exact duration of the preparatory postdoc phase is flexible, but we typically expect this to be about 1-2 years. Applicants who completed their PhD in Germany may enter Phase I of the program directly. Applicants for Phase II are expected to have completed a postdoc stay abroad and must have demonstrated their outstanding research potential and ability to successfully lead a research group.

Reviewing of applications will commence on May 1, 2012. The final deadline is June 30, 2012. Applicants should submit their CV, copies of their school and university reports, list of publications, reprints of five selected publications, names of references, a brief description of their previous research and a detailed description of the proposed research project (including possible opportunities for collaboration with existing research groups at Saarbrücken and Stanford) to:

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel

Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
Campus E1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Email: mpc-vcc@mpi-inf.mpg.de

The Max Planck Center is an equal opportunity employer and women are encouraged to apply.

Additional information is available on the website http://www.mpc-vcc.de

lunes, 26 de marzo de 2012

Tesis de master en Carnegie Mellon

Do your Master’s thesis in Machine Learning and Computer Vision in a top American university

Offer:
- Accommodation and health insurance covered. (600$)
- Research at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, EEUU), ranked #1 in robotics and computer science.
(http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdsci/brief/com_brief.php)
- For more information about the projects see http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu

Conditions:
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field
- Knowledge of Matlab, OpenCV and statistical analysis knowledge is a plus
- Available for 1 year stay (starting in July 2012)

Requisitos UPV:
- Buen expediente académico
- Nivel de inglés B2 mínimo

Los alumnos interesados debe enviar:
- Expediente académico con nota media
- CV
- Justificación del nivel de conocimientos de inglés a la OPII (opii@upvnet.upv.es) antes del 13 de Abril [ Asunto: Tesis en Carnegie Mellon]
La oferta es para realizar la Tesis de Máster durante un año comenzando en Julio 2012 .
La OPII junto con la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática realizará una preselección de candidatos. Los candidatos seleccionados serán remitidos a Carnegie Mellon para su evaluación.

viernes, 23 de marzo de 2012

PhD position at Inria Bordeaux: 3DUI and stereo

This is an offer for a PhD position at Inria Bordeaux, in the team Potioc [http://team.inria.fr/potioc]

"Desktop Stereo-based User Interfaces"
details:

http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/phd/campaign-2012/(view)/details.html?id=PNGFK026203F3VBQB6G68LOE1&LOV5=4509&LG=EN&Resultsperpage=20&nPostingID=6383&nPostingTargetID=11650&option=52&sort=DESC&nDepartmentID=28

lunes, 19 de marzo de 2012

HCI professor and researcher positions at Hasselt University (Belgium)

The Expertise centre for Digital Media (EDM, www.uhasselt.be/edm ) is a research institute of Hasselt University in Belgium. The research team of about 60 people performs scientific research in 2 areas: visual computing and human-computer interaction.

The Human-Computer Interaction group at the Expertise Centre for Digital Media is inviting applications for the following positions:

- 1 lecturer (tenure track) / associate professor in human-computer interaction. The vacancy is open till April 20 2012.

- 2 PhD positions in Human-Computer Interaction, several topics are listed in the vacancy description on the website. The vacancy is open till April 23 2012.

More information can be found using the particular items on http://www.uhasselt.be/Vacancies (where you can also see the actual deadline) or http://www.uhasselt.be/UH/EDM-about/EDM-Vacancies.html .

martes, 13 de marzo de 2012

PhD studentship in Computer Graphics at MMU

Applications are invited for a 3 year University funded Ph.D. project hosted in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University.


This interdisciplinary project will expand on recent advances made at MMU and the Institute for Reproductive Medicine at the University of Warwick in microscopic embryological data processing and visualization. The aim of the current research is to develop a more detailed understanding of the molecular basis of the changing 3D organization of developing. The student will develop methods for semi-automatic segmentation targeted at 3D microscopic embryological datasets, with implementation and testing on real pre-existing datasets. Based on the segmentation results, the student will then create physically based 3D models of embryo shapes and inner structures. The segmentation and visualization of the number, shape and size of blastomeres and nuclei will provide valuable information about the potential viability of the embryo, and will assist embryologists to understand the mechanisms of developmental failure.

The student will need to combine skills and interests in computer vision, GPUs and real-time processing; C/C++ and MATLAB based implementation and physically based modeling. The student should have a good degree in Computer Science or a suitable other hard science or engineering subject. Preference will be given to students with appropriate M.Sc. or equivalent research experience.

The student will receive EU fees and a stipend of £12,000 per annum. The studentship should be taken up not later than 01/July/12. The Image and Sensory Computation research group is a lively research environment, which currently has 5 academics and 6 other researchers working on a variety of projects concerning human imaging. For full details and informal discussions, please contact:

Dr. Silvester Czanner, s.czanner@mmu.ac.uk, http://www.docm.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/S.Czanner/

Dr. Nicholas Costen, n.costen@mmu.ac.uk, http://www.docm.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/N.Costen/

Applications should be made via the University postgraduate application form. This is available from http://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/#research (please make it clear on the form that you are applying for this studentship in particular).

PhD scholarship in Prague, Czech Republic

The Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction at Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering invites applications for 2 doctoral students (3.5 years of study) since 2012-September-01 until 2015-December-31.

These are fixed term positions under the funding of the Czech Republic.

Tasks: prospective students need to follow the topic of research in the area of rendering algorithms with focus on global illumination, sampling algorithms, and unbiased algorithms.

Requirements: for PhD students prior experience in Computer Graphics is not necessary, but it is an advantage. High proficiency in spoken and written English is a must. The finished Master Degree with excellent or very good university degree is necessary. The important part of the qualification are high skills and proficiency in computer science including theory and programming in C++, very good knowledge of mathematics, high engagement and motivation to work intensively on the research project preferably in a team.


The fully funded scholarship includes the stipend (among 8,000-11,000 EUR/Year netto, after all tax deductions) and gives a chance to get a PhD degree from the established university, the oldest technical university in the Central Europe, and initiate the scientific contacts for future career. The successful candidates are expected to work and publish in leading European conferences and journals.

The Czech Technical University is located in Prague, beautiful city with millennium history and many possibilities for cultural and social life. The living costs are relatively low compared to the western part of Europe.

The interested candidates should contact me preferably by e-mail for any details about the applications forms and send their CV for the initial contact.


The deadline for the application is 2012-April-20.


Assoc. Prof. Vlastimil Havran

http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/~havran/

PhD Studentships Smart Technology Research Centre Computational Intelligence Research Group

School of Design, Engineering and Computing
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Two 3 year, fully funded PhD research studentships are available to work on a range of exciting research areas within the framework of a large EU funded INFER project (http://www.infer.eu).

The INFER project research programme focuses on pervasively adaptive software systems for the development of an open, modular software platform for predictive modelling applicable in different industries and a next generation of adaptive soft sensors for on-line prediction, monitoring and control in the process industry. One of the main goals of the project is the promotion of a paradigm shift from human labour and knowledge intensive processes of building predictive systems to autonomous, evolving complex systems.

Applications are invited for the following 2 projects:
1) Meta-level Learning in the Context of Multi-component, Multi-level Evolving Prediction Systems
2) Visual Analytics for Evolving Prediction Systems

The students will be joining the Computational Intelligence Research Group within the Smart Technology Research Centre and will be primarily based in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing in Bournemouth but will also be required to frequently visit and work at our commercial partners' labs (REC in Poland and Evonik Industries in Germany) providing an outstanding opportunity to gain a diverse experience of both academic and commercial environments.

The studentships carry a basic remuneration of £13800 pa tax-free and a waiver of the full-time research student fees. There are no restrictions on the nationality of the applicants and the selection will be based on the candidates' qualifications and experience.

Applicants should have a very strong mathematical background and hold a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics or a similar discipline. Additionally the candidates should have strong programming experience using any or combination of C++, Matlab or Java. Some more specific requirements are given in the descriptions of individual projects.

For further details please contact Prof Bogdan Gabrys, e-mail: bgabrys@bournemouth.ac.uk or visit the following www pages: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentship_2012.html.

Interested candidates should follow the application procedure listed on the Bournemouth University web pages: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/postgraduate_research.html. Further details concerning the studentship and application procedure can be also obtained from the School of Design, Engineering & Computing Research Administrator - Ms Naomi Bailey, Email: nbailey@bournemouth.ac.uk.

PhD Studentship Smart Technology Research Centre / Computational Intelligence Research Group

School of Design, Engineering and Computing,
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Applications are invited for a 3 year, fully funded PhD research studentship to work on a project entitled "Visual Analytics for Evolving Prediction Systems". This project, while fully funded by the Bournemouth University, will be executed in the framework of a large EU funded INFER project (www.infer.eu).

This research project is concerned with the incorporation of expert knowledge and performing of visual analytics through development of novel visualisation approaches and user interaction mechanisms for managing adaptive predictive systems. The studies will focus on efficient removal of complexity associated with selection and parameterisation of underlying algorithms and translation of the high level goals into effective solutions through GUI and visualisation enabled interactions. The development of the interfaces will be consulted with a diverse range of industrial users through envisaged extensive acceptability study. The research in this project will also link to and cover support for transparency of the predictive model decision making and effective visualisation of the overall system, results and decision making process itself.

The student will be joining the Computational Intelligence Research Group within the Smart Technology Research Centre and will be primarily based in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing in Bournemouth but will also be required to frequently visit and work at our commercial partners' labs (REC in Poland and Evonik Industries in Germany) providing an outstanding opportunity to gain a diverse experience of both academic and commercial environments.

The studentship carries a basic remuneration of £13800 pa tax-free and a waiver of the full-time research student fee. There are no restrictions on the nationality of the applicants and the selection will be based on the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Applicants should have a background in visualisation or human-computer interaction demonstrated by a Master/Bachelor project or industrial experience and hold a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics or a similar discipline. Additionally candidates should have very strong programming skills using Java and an excellent working knowledge of database systems like SQL Server or Oracle. Proficiency in or at least working knowledge of any or the combination of C, C++, C#, Matlab, OSGi, Eclipse, EIP, Apache Camel would be an advantage.

For further details please contact Prof Bogdan Gabrys, e-mail: bgabrys@bournemouth.ac.uk or visit the following www pages: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentship_2012.html.

Interested candidates should follow the application procedure listed on the Bournemouth University web pages: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/postgraduate_research.html. Further details concerning the studentship and application procedure can be also obtained from the School of Design, Engineering & Computing Research Administrator - Ms Naomi Bailey, Email: nbailey@bournemouth.ac.uk.

PhD Studentship Smart Technology Research Centre / Computational Intelligence Research Group

School of Design, Engineering and Computing,
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Applications are invited for a 3 year, fully funded PhD research studentship to work on a project entitled "Meta-level Learning in the Context of Multi-component, Multi-level Evolving Prediction Systems". This project, while fully funded by the Bournemouth University, will be executed in the framework of a large EU funded INFER project (www.infer.eu).

This project will combine the study and development of meta-learning approaches and techniques focusing on knowledge acquisition, representation and transfer for effective learning based on solving multiple predictive problems together with the research into complex learning systems analysed at the systems level with a focus on multi-component, multi-level, multi-objective optimisation and mechanisms (i.e. diversity, pool sizes, dynamics of adaptation, interactions, competition versus collaboration etc.).

The student will be joining the Computational Intelligence Research Group within the Smart Technology Research Centre and will be primarily based in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing in Bournemouth but will also be required to frequently visit and work at our commercial partners' labs (REC in Poland and Evonik Industries in Germany) providing an outstanding opportunity to gain a diverse experience of both academic and commercial environments.

The studentship carries a basic remuneration of £13800 pa tax-free and a waiver of the full-time research student fee. There are no restrictions on the nationality of the applicants and the selection will be based on the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Applicants should have a very strong mathematical background and hold a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics or a similar discipline. Additionally the candidate should have strong programming experience using any or combination of C++, Matlab or Java.

For further details please contact Prof Bogdan Gabrys, e-mail: bgabrys@bournemouth.ac.uk or visit the following www pages: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentship_2012.html.

Interested candidates should follow the application procedure listed on the Bournemouth University web pages: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/postgraduate_research.html. Further details concerning the studentship and application procedure can be also obtained from the School of Design, Engineering & Computing Research Administrator - Ms Naomi Bailey, Email: nbailey@bournemouth.ac.uk.

miércoles, 7 de marzo de 2012

1st call of 2012 NII International Internship Program

The National Institute of Informatics (NII) at Tokio, through its International Internship Program,invites graduate students from partner universities to conduct research.

The NII International Internship program dedicated to receive Master or Ph.D students from partner institutions having signeda MOU with us is more and more successful and has allowed us to strengthen the collaboration with different institutions.
Each year in two calls NII hosts more than 120 interns from all over the world.

More information and application format:

http:// www.nii.ac.jp/Internship/Guidelines/1st_call_of_2012_internship_webpage.html

Candidatos interesados:
- Cumplimentar el formulario de solicitud (NII International Internship Program application form), que debe incluir el CV del
solicitante.
- Escoger tres materias de la lista de materias de investigación
- Remitir el "application form" al Coordinador del Master o Responsable del programa de doctorado. No se aceptarán
solicitudes enviadas directamente por el interesado.
- PLAZO: viernes 30 de marzo de 2012