PhD studentship in Visual Analytics for Evolving Prediction Systems

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PhD Studentship

Smart Technology Research Centre / Computational Intelligence Research
Group

School of Design, Engineering and Computing,
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Applications are invited for a 3 year, fully funded PhD research
studentship to work on a project entitled "Visual Analytics for
Evolving Prediction Systems". This project, while fully funded by the
Bournemouth University, will be executed in the framework of a large
EU funded INFER project (www.infer.eu).

This research project is concerned with the incorporation of expert
knowledge and performing of visual analytics through development of
novel visualisation approaches and user interaction mechanisms for
managing adaptive predictive systems. The studies will focus on
efficient removal of complexity associated with selection and
parameterisation of underlying algorithms and translation of the high
level goals into effective solutions through GUI and visualisation
enabled interactions. The development of the interfaces will be
consulted with a diverse range of industrial users through envisaged
extensive acceptability study. The research in this project will also
link to and cover support for transparency of the predictive model
decision making and effective visualisation of the overall system,
results and decision making process itself.

The student will be joining the Computational Intelligence Research
Group within the Smart Technology Research Centre and will be
primarily based in the School of Design, Engineering & Computing in
Bournemouth but will also be required to frequently visit and work at
our commercial partners' labs (REC in Poland and Evonik Industries in
Germany) providing an outstanding opportunity to gain a diverse
experience of both academic and commercial environments.

The studentship carries a basic remuneration of £13800 pa tax-free and
a waiver of the full-time research student fee. There are no
restrictions on the nationality of the applicants and the selection
will be based on the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Applicants should have a background in visualisation or human-computer
interaction demonstrated by a Master/Bachelor project or industrial
experience and hold a first or upper second class honours degree or
equivalent in computer science, software engineering, mathematics,
physics, engineering, statistics or a similar discipline. Additionally
candidates should have very strong programming skills using Java and
an excellent working knowledge of database systems like SQL Server or
Oracle. Proficiency in or at least working knowledge of any or the
combination of C, C++, C#, Matlab, OSGi, Eclipse, EIP, Apache Camel
would be an advantage.

For further details please contact Prof Bogdan Gabrys, e-mail:
bga...@bournemouth.ac.uk or visit the following www pages:
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentship_2012.html.

Interested candidates should follow the application procedure listed
on the Bournemouth University web pages:
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/postgraduate_research.html.
Further details concerning the studentship and application procedure
can be also obtained from the School of Design, Engineering &
Computing Research Administrator - Ms Naomi Bailey, Email:
nba...@bournemouth.ac.uk.