The
Discipline of Information Technology, at Monash University's Sunway
Campus in Malaysia, is seeking to appoint PhD students to join the
Intelligent Biologically Inspired Robotics research group, to work with
Dr Simon Egerton, Dr Carina Chan and other team members in collaboration
with the Jeffery Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The
team is focused on developing assistive care technologies to extend and
raise the quality of life of the visually impaired and elderly. We are
currently seeking motivated candidates to work on projects developing
robotic seeing-eye platforms to aid and assist the visually impaired
around their homes and enhancing their quality of life and emotional
wellbeing. The team has a very dynamic research approach, backed up with
world class medical expertise.
A
good BSc(hons)/MSc/Mphil degree in Computer Science/Engineering,
mathematics, statistics, or a related discipline is required. The
applicants should have good programming skills (MATLAB, C/C++, OpenCV,
Python) with experience of algorithm and software development. A strong
academic background, good command of both spoken and written English is a
must. Candidates with previous experience in computer programming for
robotics / embedded systems / image processing and analysis (e.g. image
segmentation and registration, computer vision, 2D/3D image processing)
would be desirable.
Interested and
qualified applicants should send their CV (PDF file format) and contact
information of three references in an email to Dr Simon Egerton simon.egerton@monash.edu with the subject: Application for PhD in Robotics.
Application Deadline : 15 March 2013
