JOB: Industrial CASE PhD studentship available

EPSRC/BT funded Industrial CASE Studentship

Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG)

School of Design, Engineering and Computing, 
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Applications are invited for a 3 year PhD research studentship to work
on a project entitled "High Performance Fusion Systems" which is
jointly funded by EPSRC and British Telecommunications plc (BT) under
the EPSRC CASE scheme.
   
The proposed research project will investigate and develop various
approaches for highly efficient multiple classifier (prediction)
systems composed of actively generated, well performing and
decorrelated classifiers (predictors). The emphasis will be put on the
automatic avoidance of data overfitting accompanied by complexity and
reliability control appropriate for potential industrial applications.

Combination, aggregation and fusion of information are major problems
for all kinds of knowledge-based systems, from image processing to
decision making, from pattern recognition to automatic learning.
Various statistical, machine learning and hybrid intelligent
techniques will be used for processing and modelling of imperfect data
and information.

The student will be joining a Computational Intelligence Research
Group and will be primarily based in the School of Design, Engineering
& Computing in Bournemouth but will also spend up to 3 months in each
year of the project duration at the BT Exact in Ipswich.

The studentship carries a remuneration starting at a minimum of #12000
pa tax-free (suitably increased in subsequent years) and payment of
tuition fees at home/EU rate. The successful applicant will need to
have a permanent residency status in the UK.

Applicants should have a strong mathematical background and hold a
first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent in computer
science, mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics or a similar
discipline. Additionally the candidate should have strong programming
experience using any or combination of C, C++, Matlab or Java.
Knowledge of ORACLE will be an advantage.

For further details please contact Dr. Bogdan Gabrys, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Interested candidates should send a letter of application and a
detailed CV with the names and addresses of two referees to: Dr.
Bogdan Gabrys, Computational Intelligence Research Group, School of
DEC, Bournemouth University, Poole House, Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12
5BB, UK. The applications can be also sent by e-mail.

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