PhD Studentship Available

[Richard Lister]

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                   Neural Computing Research Group
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           Dept of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

                   Aston University, Birmingham, UK

                      PhD STUDENTSHIP AVAILABLE
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        ***  Full details at http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/  ***

A  studentship  exists for a project which is jointly funded by the UK
EPSRC, and by British Aerospace under  the  Total  Technology  scheme.
The  student  will  be  expected to follow the Neural Computing MSc by
Research degree for the first year, and will also be expected to  pass
four  modules from the MBA course. The funding covers tuition fees and
living expenses for three years and the student is expected to gain  a
PhD  in  Neural  Computing  at  the  end  of  this period. The project
supervisor will be Professor David Lowe and the  studentship  will  be
based at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.


           Structural Characterisation of Wake EEG Signals
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A  student  is required to carry out research in the interdisciplinary
area of multichannel EEG  signal  characterisation  using  statistical
pattern  recognition  and  artificial neural networks.  The aim of the
project is  to  investigate  the  degree  to  which  attentiveness  or
vigilance  may  be  characterised  through  an  analysis  of  wake EEG
signals.  The problem domain is one of extraction  and  interpretation
of structure in an environment in which there is little or no labelled
data and in which there is a poor signal to noise  ratio.   Macrostate
unsupervised  clustering  of  multivariate  EEG  data  is  a difficult
problem area and requires a high level of competence across discipline
boundaries.

The  project  calls  for  developing  skills  in linear and non-linear
signal  processing,  biomedical   data   interpretation,   statistical
clustering  methodology  and  artificial  neural networks. The student
will have to be mathematically and computationally proficient.


                             How to apply
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This award is made on a competitive basis and students  should  ensure
that  applications  reach the Neural Computing Research Group at Aston
University by Wednesday June 19th 1996. An electronic version  of  the
application    form,    is    available    on   our   Web   Pages   at
http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/ .

Interviews will be held on Friday 21st June 1996 and  candidates  must
ensure  that  they  are available for interview. Successful candidates
will be notified by telephone and/or email if they are  to  be  called
for interview.

Candidates will be notified of the outcome on Monday 24th June 1996.

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