Faculty Position in Virtual Environments at NJIT

The Department of Informatics, within the Ying Wu College of Computing at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), seeks to recruit a tenure-track faculty member in the field of Virtual Environments (AR/VR/MR, etc).

Please see the posting here.

Candidates from inside and outside the USA are equally welcome.

Open research positions @ University of Hamburg, Germany

The Human-Computer Interaction research group in the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg (Germany) has several fully-funded open research positions available:

1) 2 PhDs in the scope of the project „VITALab: Living Labs for Laboratory and Field studies for the Evaluation of Virtual Therapy" funded by the German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF):
Details can be found here:

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/19-11-18-398.pdf

1) 1 PhD in the funded by the University of Hamburg:

Details can be found here:

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-mathematik-informatik-und-naturwissenschaften/19-11-18-397.pdf

If you are interested, please apply by November, 15th, 2018, and send your application to Mrs. Antje Lünstedt <luenstedt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Graphics at the University of Cambridge

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Graphics at the University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is recruiting a new faculty member (Lecturer or
Senior Lecturer, equivalent to a US Assistant Professor) in the broad area
of Computer Graphics, including content acquisition, geometric processing,
animation, simulation, rendering and hardware.

Further information here: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/17861/

TU Graz: PhD Position in Search and Visual Exploration of 3D Cultural Heritage Objects

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PhD Position in Search and Visual Exploration of

3D Cultural Heritage Objects

https://www.tugraz.at/institute/cgv/about-cgv/open-positions/

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We are looking for a motivated researcher on the PhD student level to join the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization at Graz University of Technology. In context of a newly approved collaborative research project co-funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and the State Styria, we will research new approaches for interactively searching and visually exploring in collections of 3D objects, with application to the field of cultural heritage. The position is initially available for three years with the possibility to develop a PhD thesis in Computer Science at TU Graz.

Research Context

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Recent advances in digitization technology lead to growing amounts of 3D objects becoming available in many applications. As part of this trend, digitization efforts in the cultural heritage field lead to increasing amounts of 3D data representing artifacts, collected in 3D repositories and virtual museums. Also, a wealth of image data and documents exist which represent knowledge on artifacts. We will research novel methods for cross-modal search in 3D and image documents, supporting shape retrieval and comparison tasks in the cultural heritage field. We will also consider novel approaches for visualization of 3D and image content, supporting exploration and association tasks. The project will run in collaboration with researchers from Archaeology, informing and evaluating the methods research.

Applicant Profile

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A master degree in computer science, information systems, information science, mechatronics, telematics, mathematics, or related studies is required. One or more of the following skills are required: Knowledge in computer graphics, information retrieval, multimedia databases, data visualization, or interactive systems. Practical skills in a current programming language (e.g., C++, C#, Java, Python, etc.) are required. An interest to work in a collaborative research environment with domain experts in the Humanities is expected.

Position Details and Working Environment

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The position is initially available for three years, starting in December 2018 or later. The opportunity to develop a Ph.D. thesis with the Doctoral School for Computer Science at TU Graz is provided. The full-time gross salary for this position is at least 2.794,60 Euro per month (14 times a year) and includes full social insurance.

Our research group offers a creative working atmosphere in a motivated, cooperative, and technically very well equipped environment. We offer excellent professional and personal development possibilities. Our institute is part of the Visual Computing research cluster in Graz, offering an excellent scientific environment at large. The city of Graz and its Styrian surroundings offer exceptional quality of living.

How to Apply

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Please send your application including a letter of motivation, CV and supporting documents via email to: tobias.schreck@cgv.tugraz.at, or by postal mail to Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck, Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz, Austria, phone: +43 316 873 5403. Information on our institute is available at http://www.cgv.tugraz.at/. Please contact Tobias Schreck for any questions. This position is available until filled.

Computer Graphics Group at Bielefeld University: PhD position

The Computer Graphics Group at Bielefeld University, Germany, is offering a PhD position for a three-year collaboration project with the Honda Research Institute Europe (Offenbach, Germany), starting January 1st, 2019.

In this project we will investigate adaptive and sparse representations for geometric objects, aiming at efficient and intuitive shape analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of geometric surfaces.  The successful candidate will mostly work at Bielefeld University, but will also spend some time at the Honda Research Institute in Offenbach, in order to foster collaboration and provide interesting insights into the research environment of the Honda Research Institute Europe.

Candidates must have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field. They should have good knowledge of geometric modeling and applied math. If you are interested and have questions, please contact Prof. Mario Botsch (botsch@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).

Applications should include the usual documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, certificates) and should be sent in electronic form to Ms. Silke Koelsch (skoelsch@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de). The deadline for application is October 18, 2018.

Official announcement:

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/Anzeigen/Wiss/wiss18267_englisch.pdf

Paid internship / Visiting scholar position on "Interplanetary communication through Virtual Reality"

A three month paid internship / visiting scholar position is available here in the Department of Computer Science of the KU Leuven (Belgium). The successful candidate will work on a funded project focused on the simulation of interplanetary communications through Virtual Reality. The proposed starting date is September but depends on the specific situation of the candidate (see below).

=== Details of the Project ===

An essential characteristic of future human colonization efforts will be the desire to communicate with friends and family back home on Earth or in other inhabited outposts. However, an unescapable limit is imposed by the time delay related to communicate across these large distances. Whereas the time delay to communicate from Earth with people on the Moon is a little more than one second, this will rise to 4 to 24 minutes to communicate with Mars, depending on the relative positions in their orbits. A hypothetical settlement on a habitable planet in Alpha Centauri, the closest solar system to our own, will require people to wait for four years for their message to be delivered, and another four years to receive a reply.

We aim to use Virtual Reality to immerse users in a hypothetical settlement on another world. We will use the created environments to study how they approach the challenge of communicating with another party when these time delays are involved (in a manageable way). This will provide some insights into the requirements that such system will have when they are eventually really implemented, and potential implications for VR communications between isolated communities here on Earth.

=== Profile ===

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable prior experience in the design of Virtual Environments with 3D engines such as the Unreal Engine (preferably) or Unity. Some modelling experience will be beneficial. Given the role, a passion for space exploration and knowledge of hard science fiction will undoubtedly help.

The candidate is expected to create a set of Virtual Environments, contribute to the execution of a subsequent VR study (depending on their level of experience), and write a final report.

=== Eligibility ===

This internship / visiting scholar position is ideally aimed at candidates who are already enrolled in a university in Belgium or abroad. Eligibility to work in Belgium for non-European citizens (and the compensation) will depend on the specific situation.

For more information, please send an email to Adalberto Simeone (adalberto.simeone@kuleuven.be). The position will remain available until filled. ​

Starting Researcher, Postdoc, Ph.D. and Engineer Openings at Inria/GRAPHDECO, (Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Starting Researcher, Postdoc, Ph.D. and Engineer Openings at Inria/GRAPHDECO, (Sophia-Antipolis, France)

FUNGRAPH is an ERC Advanced Grant in the GRAPHDECO research group (http://team.inria.fr/graphdeco)
at Inria Sophia-Antipolis (South of France), starting fall 2018.
The high level goal of the project is to build new foundations for rendering in
Computer Graphics, by taking into account uncertainty in rendering algorithms and
in the data (geometry, materials, lights) we use to render Computer Graphics.

A high-level description of the FUNGRAPH projet can be found here: http://fungraph.inria.fr
and a description of possible research topics can be found here: http://fungraph.inria.fr/fungraph-jobs.html

These topics should be considered as the "perimeter" of the research, and will be adapted to the candidate's interests and qualifications. We are looking to hire 1-2 Starting Researchers, 2-3 postdoctoral fellows,
1-2 PhD students (but probably a little later) and 1-2 engineers.

It is possible that a Ph.D. student works on one of the topics listed as "PostDoc" below, and vice versa. Starting Researchers and -- depending on their experience -- postdoctoral fellows are expected to define their own research agenda within this "perimeter" (to be interpreted very widely).

This list of topics will evolve constantly throughout the project, so please visit the topics page regularly.

Context

Several of these topics will involve work with our network of regular collaborators: at
institutions such as MIT, Berkeley and UCL, and can include visits to the respective laboratories.
We plan to expand this set of collaborators during FUNGRAPH.

Successful candidates will be members of a dynamic and highly motivated group of excellent young researchers, the GRAPHDECO Inria group (https://team.inria.fr/graphdeco/team-members/), and will have the opportunity to collaborate and interact with my colleague Adrien Bousseau (who has a Starting ERC Grant called D^{^3}) and
the other Ph.D. students, postdocs and engineers of the group.

Required Qualifications

For Starting Researcher and Postdoctoral positions, candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. in Computer Graphics or in Computer Vision with an emphasis on Graphics applications, and an excellent publication record. Ph.D. candidates are expected to have a Masters in Computer Graphics, with a solid mathematical and programming (C++/OpenGL/GLSL/Vulkan) background and have completed a thesis with a research component (ideally submitted or published). Fluency in spoken and written English is a requirement.

How to apply

If you are interested in any of these positions/topics, please email directly (George dot Drettakis at inria.fr) with your CV and short motivation, and the email addresses of 2-3 references. If you are applying for a Ph.D. please also attach your academic transcript for the last 3 years (an unofficial list of courses and grades is sufficient).

G. Drettakis will be at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, and will be interviewing candidates there.