Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in AR/VR at USC ICT

The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is looking for a Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate to join our Mixed Reality Lab (MxR).

The role of the researcher will be to support a project, investigating a new form of human-computer interaction, facilitated by electroencephalography (EEG), and known as cortically coupled computing. The project will involve the development of an immersive (virtual and augmented reality) experimental test bed to present 3D immersive stimuli to users and involve tasks such as locomotion, visual search, and other perceptual judgments. This experimental test bed will log EEG and other forms of data, which will be interpreted and used to train algorithms to assist users in performing complex recognition and search tasks. The researcher would contribute to study design, data analysis, implementation, and submission of results for publication.
The project is supported by US Army funding and will be performed in collaboration with researchers across a number of different universities and organizations. This is a one-year position, with the possibility of renewal contingent upon funding.
Preferred Education:  

• A Ph.D., or equivalent, within the last three years in computer science, human-computer interaction, or a related field is preferred.

 Skills:

• Strong software engineering skills

Experience:

• Designing, implementing, and conducting human-subjects research.
• Physiological data collection, such as EEG, is a desirable.
• Development experience with virtual or augmented reality and the Unity game engine.
• A track record of publication in peer reviewed journals and conferences are preferred.

Why work at ICT:

• A quality work-life balance
• Meet interesting people from all walks of life – technologists, social scientists, military, writers, producers, philanthropists
• Free, top-tier university education for you and your children
• Located in the heart of Silicon Beach
• Great benefits - medical to matched retirement http://benefits.usc.edu/

The University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is an off campus research facility, located on a creative business campus in the “Silicon Beach” neighborhood of Playa Vista. We are world leaders in innovative training and education solutions, computer graphics, computer simulations, and immersive experiences for decision-making, cultural awareness, leadership and health.

Faculty Positions, AR/VR, University of Maryland

The Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park, is looking for outstanding candidates for tenured/tenure-track faculty at all levels in perceptual computing, including virtual and augmented reality. Follow this link to the official job posting https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/54901 

Our department (http://www.cs.umd.edu), in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (http://umiacs.umd.edu), has established a vibrant tradition of excellence in a number of areas including computer vision, natural language processing, high-performance computing, machine learning, computational biology, robotics, and computational audition. Now, catalyzed by a $38M gift from co-founders of Oculus VR, Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov, and others, with an additional investment of well over a $100M from the state of Maryland, we are looking to rapidly emerge as the world-wide leader in virtual and augmented reality.  University of Maryland has recently hired several senior faculty in these areas and will continue to grow. The current faculty has close ties with industry and local organizations. More than 50 partner companies and organizations are participating in the soon to be established MAVRIC center, which is focused on immersive media research and development.

 

In addition, we also encourage students to apply to our PhD programs and for postdoc positions in these areas. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland is consistently ranked among the top-15 nationally. It is one of the largest departments in the country, with approximately 50 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty covering a wide variety of research areas and over 200 doctoral students drawn from top undergraduate programs nationally and internationally.  In 2018 the department is slated to occupy its new state-of-the-art facility, the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, which is currently under construction.  The University of Maryland, College Park, was founded in 1856 and is the flagship institution in the University System of Maryland.  Its 1,250 acre College Park campus is minutes away from Washington, D.C., the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers.  This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research organizations, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations offers unique opportunities for engagement for faculty and students.

Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in AR/VR at USC ICT

 https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/playa-vista/postdoctoral-scholar-research-associate/1209/6265650

The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is looking for a Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate to join our Mixed Reality Lab (MxR).
The role of the researcher will be to support a project,  investigating a new form of human-computer interaction, facilitated by electroencephalography (EEG), and known as cortically coupled computing. The project will involve the development of an immersive (virtual and augmented reality) experimental test bed to present 3D immersive stimuli to users and involve tasks such as locomotion, visual search, and other perceptual judgments. This experimental test bed will log EEG and other forms of data, which will be interpreted and used to train algorithms to assist users in performing complex recognition and search tasks. The researcher would contribute to study design, data analysis, implementation, and submission of results for publication.
The project is supported by US Army funding and will be performed in collaboration with researchers across a number of different universities and organizations. This is a one-year position, with the possibility of renewal contingent upon funding
Preferred Education:

• A Ph.D., or equivalent, within the last three years in computer science, human-computer interaction, or a related field is preferred.

 Skills:

• Strong software engineering skills

Experience:

• Designing, implementing, and conducting human-subjects research.
• Physiological data collection, such as EEG, is a desirable.
• Development experience with virtual or augmented reality and the Unity game engine.
• A track record of publication in peer reviewed journals and conferences are preferred.

Why work at ICT:

• A quality work-life balance
• Meet interesting people from all walks of life – technologists, social scientists, military, writers, producers, philanthropists
• Free, top-tier university education for you and your children
• Located in the heart of Silicon Beach
• Great benefits - medical to matched retirement http://benefits.usc.edu/