Research Assistant/ Research Fellow – Computer Science (Trainable Vision System for the Food Industry) – (Fixed Term)

School of Computer Science

Location:  Brayford
Salary:   From £25,504 per annum
Closing Date:   Sunday 04 August 2013
Reference:  MHT192B

The School of Computer Science has an exciting opportunity for either a Research Fellow or a Research Assistant.

The salary for both posts are as follows:

Research Assistant – from £25,504.00 per annum

Research Fellow – from £30,424.00 per annum

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work full-time for 2 years on a Technology Strategy Board funded project “Trainable Vision-based Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis” from 1st September 2013 (or as soon as possible thereafter). Applicants should have, or expect to soon obtain, a doctoral degree in Computer Vision, 3D Imaging, Machine Learning and/or a related area.  Excellent software implementation skills (C++/Matlab) are essential.

Alternatively, to allow talented but less qualified individuals to apply, applications are also invited for a Research Assistant to work full-time for 2.5 years on the project, with the possibility to register for and undertake a PhD in parallel with the planned developments. For an outstanding individual, an additional 6-month bursary would be provided to allow the successful candidate to write up their work as a PhD thesis.

For further details and online application form,  please follow this link.