Two Junior Researcher Positions in Applied Data Analysis and Visualization in Graz, Austria

In context of the recently launched COMET competence center Pro2Future – Products and Production Systems of the Future, we are filling

2 Junior Researcher Positions in Applied Data Analysis and Visualization

at the center's site in Graz, Austria, co-located with Graz University of Technology. The researchers will work on timely industrial data analysis and visualization challenges in close collaboration with the center's scientific and industry partners. Opportunity to develop a PhD thesis at Graz University of Technology is given and explicitly supported. For further information, please refer to the opening description below or contact Tobias Schreck at tobias.schreck@cgv.tugraz.at.

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Opening Description
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To broaden and support our research activities in the field of data-driven decision support we are currently offering the position of a Junior Researcher Full-time (38,5 hours/week), at Pro2Future GmbH in Graz (Campus Inffeld at Graz University of Technology).
Pro2Future – Products and Production Systems of the Future – is a COMET competence center that attempts for next generation products and manufacturing machinery with embedded cognitive capabilities. It is a joint effort of world leading Austrian industrial enterprises and top Austrian scientific institutions in ICT and Production Engineering: Johannes Kepler University Linz, Graz University of Technology and Profactor GmbH. Furthermore, it is endorsed by the Provinces of Upper Austria and Styria, Austria's strongest regions in industrial leadership. Pro2Future operates three research sites in Linz, Graz and Steyr.

Project context:
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Designing and evaluating predictive maintenance and condition monitoring systems for industrial applications. Together with internationally renowned companies from the automotive and metal industries, we investigate how cognitive decision support can be applied to analyze large amounts of industrial data. In this regard, prediction models based on analytical methods as well as visual analytics approaches are to be researched, developed and applied.

Job profile:
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The successful candidate will be engaged in computational and visual data analysis and data-driven projects. To this end, one or more of the following skills are required: knowledge about information systems, data technologies, visual analytics and information visualization, mathematical and statistical methods for data analysis. Experience in at least one current software development environment is required. Experience in the field of artificial intelligence is of advantage. The successful candidate seeks an ambitious activity in industry-driven research and is particularly willing to obtain a PhD under supervision of the scientific partners of this project at TU Graz, including Prof. Tobias Schreck, Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization. The successful candidate will work within an interdisciplinary project team consisting of experts including the industrial partners, project management and scientific partners of Graz University of Technology. The candidate plays a major role in shaping and executing the projects' research agenda. Project work will also involve collaboration and knowledge exchange with the Pro2Future partners, several allied international research groups as well as participating in the international research community.


Your qualification:
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• A university-level degree in computer science, information systems, information science, mechatronics, telematics, mathematics, or related studies.
• Programming skills in a current development environment (Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, ...)
• Fluent English, written and spoken. German is appreciated or the willingness to learn German is expected.

We offer:
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• The opportunity to align the research for your Ph.D. studies to a 3-years research project, starting in Spring 2018.
• The opportunity to work in a young, dynamic, creative and collaborative team with strong ethos of mentorship and professional development as well as focused publication agenda.
• We will provide the successful candidate with a cooperative and supportive environment to establish themselves and their careers, i.e. particularly the Ph.D. studies.
• Full-time gross salary for this position is 2,750 Euro per month (14 times a year).

How to apply:
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To apply for this position, please send your application (including CV, supporting documents, letter of motivation) via email to: jobs@pro2future.at, or by postal mail to Pro2Future GmbH c/o Dr. Stefan Thalmann, Inffeldgasse 25 F, 8010 Graz, Austria, phone:+43 316 873-30603. More information on Pro2Future is available at http://www.pro2future.at/.
Pro2Future GmbH is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly welcome applications from women and international candidates. In case of equal qualification, female applicants will be hired preferentially.

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: PhD student position in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with Application on Industrial Tomography

https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=5398&rmlang=UK

Open search for faculty positions in CG/VR at Tecnico - U. Lisbon

The Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico (ULisboa) is carrying out an open search process for possible candidates to future openings for faculty career positions. This open search is targeted at possible candidates who have an interest in enrolling at the base level of the university professional career (tenure-track assistant professor), in all scientific areas of the Department, namely:

        - Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
        - Human-Computer Interaction

Possible candidates should send a zip file to

cse-facultysearch@dei.tecnico.ulisboa.pt  containing the following materials:
        - Curriculum Vitae
        - Teaching and research statement
        - Contact (including email address) of three researchers or professionals from the area who can be contacted to provide reference letters, attesting to the scientific, pedagogical, and professional qualities of the possible candidate.

These materials should preferably be sent by January 15, 2018, for being considered for the 2018 open search process. For any additional questions please contact the Department at dei@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.

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/

Two Post Doctoral Positions at the THINKlab, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

We are looking for two VR experts to join the THINKlab team to work in the area of Smart Cities and Disaster Response.  These two posts are available as a result of  our success in securing  £1.2M grant from the Global Challenge Funds (EPSRC managed) and £1M from Innovate UK.  (Please see http://www.jobs.salford.ac.uk/ for job advertisements  and applications)

 

Research Fellow Post 1 (Grade 7, £32,548 - £38,833 ):

Applications are sought for a Research Fellow post to work with this international research project.  The Research Fellow will be responsible for providing the leadership in developing a distributed collaborative environment for analysing near real-time 3D satellite data for disaster interventions.  This research will explore how the near-real time data can be processed in order to construct a true situation on the ground during live disasters. The Research Fellow will work closely with our industry partners – the UK Satellite Application Centre and Telespazio Vega (which operates the COSMO-SkyMed Satellite) and to demonstrate this novel concept. This work will build on the research work that the THINKlab has been conducting over the last 10 years on distributed virtual environments for aerospace, automotive, building construction and space mission planning.  We are looking for an outstanding individual who has a good background in virtual environments, gaming technology  and management of large scale terrain models in real-time for interactive visualization. The overall distributed environment will be developed using the Unreal game engine.

 

Research Fellow Post 2 (Grade 7, £32,548 - £38,833) :

Applications are sought for a Research Fellow post to work with the Director of the THINKlab to support the delivery of the current projects and help the THINKlab to develop new research programmes in the area of virtual city simulation. The Research Fellow will be responsible for providing leadership in developing research ideas and a technology platform that can enhance the richness of virtual city models by integrating data from sensors, satellites and simulations such as traffic, flood and crowd to allow planners to make informed decision for creating sustainable cities. 

 

 

The THINKlab (www.salford.ac.uk/thinklab) at the University of Salford has an exciting and vibrant research community engaged in a range of interdisciplinary research and commercial projects. We are focusing on creating advanced technology platforms that utilise the power of advanced visualisation, interaction and distributed computing to offer novel solutions for sectors such as aerospace, automotive, built environment, media and space. THINKlab is engaged in both long-term research and applied research to solve real-world problems and work closely with end user companies to ensure relevance and impact.  THINKlab, designed as a Future Centre provides an impressive environment for creativity for researchers. By combining our innovative facilitation techniques, brain storming techniques and multi-sensory spaces, 

 

THINKlab provides a highly creative environment for researchers to envision future possibilities and develop innovative solutions.  It offers access to state of the art technology platforms such as virtual reality, multi-touch tables, body tracking, laser scanning, video conferencing to develop and validate novel technology solutions.  THINKlab is used by academics, government organisations and private companies to explore complex problems and produce innovative solutions. Therefore, THINKlab is ideal for researchers who are looking for a creative research environment that offers interdisciplinary culture, real-world problems,  external stimulus from end user organisations and access to advanced visualisation and interaction technology to conduct innovative research.

 

 

Contact : Prof. Terrence Fernando, Director of the THINKlab - University of Salford

Email : t.fernando@salford.ac.uk

Applications can be downloaded at http://www.jobs.salford.ac.uk/