Industrial CASE PhD studentship available

[Bogdan Gabrys]

Dear Connectionists,

The following research studentship is currently available.

Please feel free to distribute to whoever may be interested in and qualified
for this position.

Best regards,

Bogdan Gabrys


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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 =A312000 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:
bgabrys at bournemouth.ac.uk <mailto:bgabrys at bournemouth.ac.uk> .

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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Dr Bogdan Gabrys
Computational Intelligence Research Group
School of Design, Engineering & Computing
Bournemouth University, Poole House
Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow
Poole, BH12 5BB
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1202 595298
Fax: +44 (0) 1202 595314
E-mail: bgabrys at bournemouth.ac.uk
WWW: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/
<http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/>
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