Connectionists: Postdoctoral position in Modelling Human Motion

[Neil Lawrence]

The following postdoc position in probabilistic modelling of human 
motion data is available at the University of Sheffield in the 
Department of Computer Science.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Job Location: Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, U.K.

Job Ref No: PR2250

Closing Date: 22nd December, 2005

Salary: 22,774 - 28,850 per annum
 Project Summary

The focus of the work will be on the construction of probabilistic 
models for modelling human motion capture data. The project is a 
collaboration between Professor Philip Torr of Oxford Brookes University 
and Dr Neil Lawrence of Sheffield University. Applicants should have, or 
should be about to receive a PhD in a related area (e.g. machine 
learning, graphics, vision). The post is for a period of up to one year.

The position is funded as a pump-priming project by the PASCAL European 
Network of Excellence. It is expected, as part of the project, that a 
submission for extended funding will be made through the EU or UK 
research councils with the successful applicant as a named research 
associate.

Neil Lawrence will be available at NIPS to conduct informal interviews 
for interested candidates. Please e-mail neil at dcs.shef.ac.uk if you 
would like to discuss the position there.

More details of the position are available at

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~neil/postdoc1105.html