View source for 2012-03-14: Job: PhD Studentship on Visual Analytics for Evolving Prediction Systems, Bournemouth University, UK

'''Smart Technology Research Centre / Computational Intelligence Research Group'''
<br>[http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ School of Design, Engineering and Computing]
<br>[http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ Bournemouth University], [[wikipedia:Bournemouth|Bournemouth]], [[wikipedia:United Kingdom|UK]] 



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 ([http://www.infer.eu 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:  [mailto:bgabrys@bournemouth.ac.uk bgabrys@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: [mailto:nbailey@bournemouth.ac.uk nbailey@bournemouth.ac.uk].