Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term)

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Pc Science
Location:  Jubilee Campus
Wage: 
£30,487 to £45,585
every year (professional rata if relevant) relying on expertise 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 best way we take a look at vegetation. Crops are extraordinarily difficult topics for laptop imaginative and prescient, people could look very related, however could exhibit massive variation in how successfully they develop. The Delivering Sustainable Wheat programme is a co-ordinated and collaborative initiative between a number of establishments to deal with crucial challenges in wheat well being, yield, and manufacturing. The venture brings collectively crop scientists, geneticists, and laptop scientists to discover cutting-edge methods to additional our understanding of this vital species. This venture will use deep studying to establish and measure vital crop traits, predicting key measures comparable to well being and yield.

The venture will make use of superior imaging applied sciences throughout the associate establishments, together with UAV drone imagery, hyperspectral photographs, CT scans and 3D level cloud information. The imaging platforms can seize a whole lot of gigabytes of information per day, subsequently trendy AI strategies 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 vegetation totally different imaging modalities. A key focus might be round aerial and hyperspectral photographs, the place typically a whole lot of wavelengths of sunshine might be measured for a extremely detailed view of fields. We’re additionally within the 3D construction of vegetation captured from above utilizing LIDAR, or in CT. We are going to work carefully with our venture companions Rothamsted Analysis (https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/) and the Earlham Institute (https://www.earlham.ac.uk/).

The candidate ought to have (or almost have accomplished) a PhD in a pc imaginative and prescient or a deep learning-related topic. The flexibility to work in an interdisciplinary workforce might be important, ideally evidenced by earlier work on interdisciplinary initiatives.  The flexibility to develop new CNN fashions/architectures, in addition to use present architectures, might be fascinating. Data of how these networks is likely to be shared and deployed by scientists throughout establishments can be useful.

The candidate will primarily be primarily based within the College of Pc 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, purposes are additionally welcome from candidates wishing to work part-time (minimal 29 hours per week). Please specify in your software for those who want to work half time and the variety of most well-liked hours. Job share preparations may be thought-about.

Requests for secondment from inside candidates could also be thought-about on the idea that prior settlement has been sought from each your present line supervisor and the supervisor of your substantive put up, if you’re already enterprise a secondment function.

The place relies within the College of Pc Science on our Jubilee Campus in Nottingham.

Casual enquiries could also be addressed to Dr. Michael Pound at [email protected]. Please word that purposes despatched on to this e-mail deal with is not going to be accepted.

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