Open Phd Positions in UK (posted on Monday 15th Oct 2007)

Excellent Research &
Technical Innovation Management Job Opportunities

Collaborative European
and National Research Project Positions at Reading University UK,
IMSS

At the
Intelligent Media systems & Services Research Centre, IMSS (www.reading. ac.uk),
we are offering some of the
best research career opportunities and the highest benefits in an environment
of interesting research, creativity and adventure
including support for our researchers to do a part-time PhD alongside their work on closely related
international research projects, present their work worldwide and develop an international
research career.

We would like to discuss the research and
management opportunities with candidates who have recently graduated with a
first class degree or are
just graduating at Masters
Degree level in Computer science or a closely related discipline who might be interested in working on exciting
and innovative projects here at the
University of Reading; plus the possibility of support under the University fee waiver
programme for registering on a part-time PhD; more
information on http://www.reading. ac.uk/about/ about-researchjo bs.asp?url= http://www. info.rdg. ac.uk/newjobs/ details.asp? RefernceNumber= RS07055 or

http://www.jobs. ac.uk/jobs/ SI883/Research_ Assistants_ Fellows/

We also have
vacancies for post-doctorate researchers
wishing to start a career as a research leader (technical project management).

See http://www.reading. ac.uk/about/ about-researchjo bs.asp?url= http://www. info.rdg. ac.uk/newjobs/ details.asp? RefernceNumber= RS07056

http://www.jobs. ac.uk/jobs/ SI882/Senior_ Research_ Fellow_Technical _Research_ Project_Manageme nt/

Deadline for
submission of applications is 2nd November.

Successful
candidates can join us at any time between
November 2007 and February 2008.

The vacancies
are at Research Assistant/Fellow level and
Senior Research Fellow (normally Post-Doctoral) level. In
this current recruitment phase we are interested in candidates with knowledge
and R&D experience in any of the following 12 fields:

1) Data
Mining Technologies

·
Data Mining,

·
Linked Mining

·
Data Warehousing

·
Distributed Databases

·
Machine Learning, CBR

2)
Natural Language Processing

·
Dialogue Management

·
Multi-modal Indexing

·
Query support

3)
Pattern Recognition &
Optimisation

·
Speech & Sound
Recognition

·
Speaker Recognition

·
Image Recognition
& Tracking

·
Natural Algorithms
& Adaptation (Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms)

4)
Enterprise
Systems Integration

·
Enterprise
Applications J2EE-based Integration and Client Server Technologies

·
Semantic Workflow
Integration

5)
Semantic Service-oriented Systems

·
Ontology
Engineering,

·
Semantic Web/Grid

·
Web Services

·
Profiles
Repositories Management

·
Agent-broker
frameworks

· Dynamic Media Adaptation & Personalisation (MPEG 21 Standards)

·
Metadata Standards
such as XML, SOAP, .NET etc

·
Adaptive Media
Transcoding

6)
3D Modelling

·
3D Modelling,

· 3D Imaging, Reconstruction,

·
Visualisation,

·
Virtual Reality

·
Augmented Reality

·
Image Recognition
& Motion Analysis

7)
Access & Tagging Technologies

·
ID Management

·
RFID

8)
Communications Technologies

·
Wireless Technology

·
Telecommunication
Protocols

·
Network Security

9)
Embedded Systems:

·
Embedded-systems
designs encompassing both hardware and software aspects
(e.g. VHDL programming, Memory controller interfaces such as SRAM, SDR
and DDR).

·
Experience of a
range of parallel -programming techniques: parallel loops,
loop-nest scheduling, parallel reduction, divide-and-conquer,
pipelining, task-based parallelism

· Real-time processing and parallel
decoding of telecommunication protocols.

·
FPGA design tools
experience.

·
Sensor Networks

10)
Rights Protection
Technologies

·
Digital Rights
Management including Finger Printing, WaterMarking & relevant MPEG21 standards

11)
Advanced Multi-modal Interfaces

· Affective interfaces

· Embedded Conversational Agents (ECAs-Avatars)

12) Forensic Computing

For more details see our web page and the
application form which can be downloaded from http://www.rdg. ac.uk/personnel/ application_ form.htm

We are very
happy to talk to any researchers interested in applying, they can contact us by phone 00 44 (0)118 378 7842 or email atta.badii@reading. ac.uk.

Further information and
application forms are available at www.reading. ac.uk/Jobs
or telephone 0118 378 6771 (voicemail).

Intelligent
Media Systems & Services Laboratory

University of Reading

www.imss.reading. ac.uk


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