Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Computer Vision/Machine Learning

Lincoln

Wage:  

From £37,099
each year

Please observe, this publish is fastened time period till 28 February 2027, and full time at 1.0 FTE.

Closing Date:  

Monday 08 April 2024

Interview Date:  

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Reference:  

CHS104

We’re searching for a passionate and motivated Submit-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate (PDRA) to affix an interdisciplinary staff of researchers on a 3-year venture “Utilizing synthetic intelligence for automated habitat evaluation (AI-Hab)” funded by the Pure Surroundings Analysis Council (NERC).

Utilizing tens of 1000’s of pictures from the long-term, nationally consultant Countryside Survey , AI-Hab will leverage the most recent advances in laptop imaginative and prescient and deep studying to ship an automatic monitoring software for habitat classification. Habitat recognition is important to the supply of Biodiversity Internet Acquire (BNG), which seeks to make sure that land improvement has a measurably optimistic (+10%) influence on biodiversity. Led by the College of Lincoln, this venture is a collaboration between the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences (Dr Lan Qie, venture lead), the Faculty of Pc Science (Dr James Brown, Dr Petra Bosilj), and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH). The ensuing software can be built-in into the E-Surveyor software developed by UKCEH.

As a part of this thrilling alternative, you can be liable for the event, validation, and deployment of a deep studying mannequin for habitat classification. You will want to have expertise in constructing deep studying workflows utilizing established instruments (e.g., PyTorch), proficiency in Python or one other appropriate programming language (e.g., C++), and a ardour for interdisciplinary analysis in assist of environmental conservation. You must also have, or be near finishing, a PhD in laptop science or a associated area. There can be alternatives so that you can develop your personal analysis pursuits, attend high-profile worldwide conferences, and publish your work in each computational and ecological venues.

If you need to have an off-the-cuff dialogue concerning the function, please contact both Dr James Brown (line supervisor, he/him), at [email protected] , Dr Petra Bosilj (venture co-lead, she/her), at [email protected] , or Dr Lan Qie (venture lead, she/her), at [email protected] .

Additional particulars:

You’ll find out extra about working at Lincoln, and all the things that we’ve to supply, at: 

https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/jobopportunities/

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