Research Support Assistant (machine learning, computer vision)

We invite purposes from information scientists, laptop scientists, geographers and economists specialised in machine studying and laptop imaginative and prescient.

The place can be hosted by the College of Economics on the College of Bristol, the place the candidate would profit from an interdisciplinary, worldwide analysis surroundings, and would be capable of acquire necessary analysis expertise and put together PhD purposes. The profitable candidate might also be part of the Jean Golding Institute for information science, and profit from our institutional partnership with the Alan Turing Institute or connections with different departments on the College of Bristol (e.g., Geographical Sciences, Engineering or Laptop Science).

The analysis intends to develop novel, interdisciplinary strategies that facilitate the systematic extraction of knowledge from historic maps and different photos (e.g., work) to review the evolution of cities and international locations in the long term. The mission is a world collaboration of economists with an curiosity in quantitative strategies involving: Yanos Zylberberg (Bristol, PI), Laurent Gobillon (PSE-CNRS), Stephan Heblich (Toronto), Clement Gorin (Paris 1 Sorbonne), Pierre-Philippe Combes (ENS Lyon), Marcel Fortin (Toronto), Steve Redding (Princeton), Gilles Duranton (Wharton UPenn).

The mission is funded by Open Analysis Space (ORA) for the Social Sciences ANR-DFG-ESRC-SSHRC.

The analysis assistant can be anticipated to help the analysis mission “MAPHIS: Mapping Historical past–What Historic Maps Can Inform Us About City Improvement”, a world collaboration between researchers within the UK, France, Canada and the US.

The perfect candidate will maintain a MSc/MRes (or be an distinctive BSc pupil)—or be near completion—in a related area (engineering, laptop science, information science, economics, financial geography) and will have expertise/data within the following space:

• Growing machine-learning classification strategies for visible recognition.

For casual queries, please contact Yanos Zylberberg, [email protected] 

We just lately launched our technique  to 2030 tying collectively our mission, imaginative and prescient and values.

The College of Bristol goals to be a spot the place everybody feels capable of be themselves and do their finest in an inclusive working surroundings the place all colleagues can thrive and attain their full potential. We would like to draw, develop, and retain people with completely different experiences, backgrounds and views – notably folks of color, LGBT+ and disabled folks – as a result of variety of individuals and concepts stays integral to our excellence as a worldwide civic establishment.

Obtainable paperwork

We invite purposes from information scientists, laptop scientists, geographers and economists specialised in machine studying and laptop imaginative and prescient.

The place can be hosted by the College of Economics on the College of Bristol, the place the candidate would profit from an interdisciplinary, worldwide analysis surroundings, and would be capable of acquire necessary analysis expertise and put together PhD purposes. The profitable candidate might also be part of the Jean Golding Institute for information science, and profit from our institutional partnership with the Alan Turing Institute or connections with different departments on the College of Bristol (e.g., Geographical Sciences, Engineering or Laptop Science).

The analysis intends to develop novel, interdisciplinary strategies that facilitate the systematic extraction of knowledge from historic maps and different photos (e.g., work) to review the evolution of cities and international locations in the long term. The mission is a world collaboration of economists with an curiosity in quantitative strategies involving: Yanos Zylberberg (Bristol, PI), Laurent Gobillon (PSE-CNRS), Stephan Heblich (Toronto), Clement Gorin (Paris 1 Sorbonne), Pierre-Philippe Combes (ENS Lyon), Marcel Fortin (Toronto), Steve Redding (Princeton), Gilles Duranton (Wharton UPenn).

The mission is funded by Open Analysis Space (ORA) for the Social Sciences ANR-DFG-ESRC-SSHRC.

The analysis assistant can be anticipated to help the analysis mission “MAPHIS: Mapping Historical past–What Historic Maps Can Inform Us About City Improvement”, a world collaboration between researchers within the UK, France, Canada and the US.

The perfect candidate will maintain a MSc/MRes (or be an distinctive BSc pupil)—or be near completion—in a related area (engineering, laptop science, information science, economics, financial geography) and will have expertise/data within the following space:

• Growing machine-learning classification strategies for visible recognition.

For casual queries, please contact Yanos Zylberberg, [email protected] 

We just lately launched our technique  to 2030 tying collectively our mission, imaginative and prescient and values.

The College of Bristol goals to be a spot the place everybody feels capable of be themselves and do their finest in an inclusive working surroundings the place all colleagues can thrive and attain their full potential. We would like to draw, develop, and retain people with completely different experiences, backgrounds and views – notably folks of color, LGBT+ and disabled folks – as a result of variety of individuals and concepts stays integral to our excellence as a worldwide civic establishment.

Obtainable paperwork