Connectionists: PhD Studentship: multiple classifier and prediction systems

[Bogdan Gabrys]

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 research labs in Ipswich.
The studentship carries a remuneration of £12000 pa tax-free 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 and/or Access will be an advantage.
For further details please contact Prof. Bogdan Gabrys, e-mail: 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: Prof. 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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Prof 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/
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