Monthly Archives: March 2016

PhD in security or privacy

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Interested in a PhD in security / privacy? The group (http://secpriv.inf.ed.ac.uk/) is growing a fair bit at present, and doing some really interesting research. There is a list of topics and contacts here: http://secpriv.inf.ed.ac.uk/phds/

Funding points:
There is some funding still available for UK/EU students, including for example, in conjunction with the Pervasive Parallelism CDT, or the Alan Turing Institute. Applications are accepted at any time, but really need to be made by next week to be considered for most of the remaining funding.

IY placements at NHS Wales Informatics Service

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IY placements at NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) emailed to us by Kalee Thomas (Kalee.Thomas@wales.nhs.uk). She says:

We are delighted to inform you that we would like to offer second year students to apply for an industrial placement within our Organisation. We are offering a maximum of four places and these can be offered in a variety of our offices across Wales in the following areas:

· Software Development
· Software Support & Business Analysis
· Software Testing
· Networking
· Data Centre Services
· Information Services
· Email & Multi Media

If any of your students would like to apply for a placement with is please advise them to send a CV to Kalee.Thomas@wales.nhs.uk or Julia.Denyer@wales.nhs.uk along with a covering letter informing us which of the areas listed above they would be interested in. We will shortlist from there and invite appropriate candidates to come in and speak to us with relevant managers.

If you have any further question then please do not hesitate in contacting me.

Kind regards

Kalee

IY at Buhler Sortex in image processsing

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IY at Buhler Sortex in image processsing (Greater London, deadline 17 March, £18,300) :

Buhler is a global market leader in the supply of flour production plants, pasta and chocolate production lines and animal feed manufacturing installations. They are currently seeking applications for an Image Processing placement. As a member of the Research team, the successful candidate will experience most aspects of research at Buhler Sortex. The main focus of the research is to investigate image processing and computer vision algorithms. A significant part of the role is writing Matlab code, a programming language widely used throughout academia and industry for rapid prototyping. The role includes undertaking experiments, learning new computer algorithms as well as experimenting with algorithms that learn.

The successful candidate will be working with 50 professional engineers to design the next generation of optical sorting machines. The size of the projects will vary, for some projects they will work independently, for others as part of a team.

Previous student projects:

Pioneering a new method for sorting food products. This involved implementing and evaluating the performance of several machine learning algorithms and selecting the most suitable solution for a specific application

Investigating the factors affecting how grains flow down a chute. This involved capturing image data and analysing this data to develop a suitable algorithm; then coding this algorithm in Matlab to product a software utility for use by other engineers.

Skills and requirements:

Applicants should have ability in computing, mathematics and engineering, with a keen interest in images and computing, including how computers can be used to extract information from images. Applicants do not need previous experience in machine vision or Matlab which can be learnt on the job.

To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter outlining why you’ve chosen this placement to – hrukrecruitment@buhlersortex.com with ‘Image Processing Student Placement’ in the subject line.