Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term)

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Laptop Science
Location:  Jubilee Campus
Wage: 
£30,487 to £45,585
every year (professional rata if relevant) relying on abilities and expertise (minimal £33966 with related PhD). Wage development past this scale is topic to efficiency.
Closing Date:  Friday 03 Might 2024
Reference:  SCI084124

Deep studying is altering the way in which we take a look at crops. Vegetation are extraordinarily difficult topics for laptop imaginative and prescient, people might look very related, however might exhibit giant variation in how successfully they develop. The Delivering Sustainable Wheat programme is a co-ordinated and collaborative initiative between a number of establishments to handle crucial challenges in wheat well being, yield, and manufacturing. The mission brings collectively crop scientists, geneticists, and laptop scientists to discover cutting-edge methods to additional our understanding of this necessary species. This mission will use deep studying to determine and measure necessary crop traits, predicting key measures corresponding to well being and yield.

The mission will make use of superior imaging applied sciences throughout the associate establishments, together with UAV drone imagery, hyperspectral pictures, CT scans and 3D level cloud information. The imaging platforms can seize tons of of gigabytes of information per day, subsequently fashionable AI methods are important if we’re to effectively sustain with this.

We need to fill a post-doctoral researcher place which can develop new deep studying applied sciences for the evaluation of crops totally different imaging modalities. A key focus shall be round aerial and hyperspectral pictures, the place typically tons of of wavelengths of sunshine might be measured for a extremely detailed view of fields. We’re additionally within the 3D construction of crops captured from above utilizing LIDAR, or in CT. We are going to work intently with our mission companions Rothamsted Analysis (https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/) and the Earlham Institute (https://www.earlham.ac.uk/).

The candidate ought to have (or practically have accomplished) a PhD in a pc imaginative and prescient or a deep learning-related topic. The power to work in an interdisciplinary staff shall be important, ideally evidenced by earlier work on interdisciplinary initiatives.  The power to develop new CNN fashions/architectures, in addition to use current architectures, shall be fascinating. Data of how these networks is perhaps shared and deployed by scientists throughout establishments could be useful.

The candidate will primarily be based mostly within the Faculty of Laptop Science, Jubilee Campus on the College of Nottingham, however could also be required to spend a while at Rothamsted Analysis, Harpenden.

This can be a fastened time period alternative accessible till 31/03/2026. Hours of labor are full-time (36.25 hours); nevertheless, functions are additionally welcome from candidates wishing to work part-time (minimal 29 hours per week). Please specify in your utility when you want to work half time and the variety of most popular hours. Job share preparations may additionally be thought of.

Requests for secondment from inner candidates could also be thought of on the idea that prior settlement has been sought from each your present line supervisor and the supervisor of your substantive submit, in case you are already enterprise a secondment function.

The place is predicated within the Faculty of Laptop Science on our Jubilee Campus in Nottingham.

Casual enquiries could also be addressed to Dr. Michael Pound at [email protected]. Please word that functions despatched on to this e-mail deal with won’t be accepted.

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