Applications of learning to text and images

[John Shawe-Taylor]

Research Assistant Opening in Kernel Based Methods
(see also web site: www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/vacancies/RAkernels.shtml )

Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London

Three year postdoctoral appointment available immediately

Royal Holloway, University of London invites applications for a research
assistant position in computer science.

The salary is competitive and the work is associated with a new
European-funded project directed by John Shawe-Taylor.

The project involves developing kernel based methods for the analysis of
multi-media documents provided by Reuters, who are collaborators on the
project. The project is financed by the EU and also involves partners in
France (Xerox), Italy (Genova University, Milano University) and Israel
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

We are seeking a researcher with experience in corpus based methods of
information retrieval and document categorisation, and a strong
programming background. Experience with kernel methods is desirable but
not required. Salary is in the range 20,865 to 27,347 per annum inclusive
of London Allowance.

Please contact John Shawe-Taylor by email at jst at cs.rhul.ac.uk for more
information.