*Research Assistants/Fellows** -Intelligent Media Technologies***

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*Intelligent Media Systems & Services Research Laboratory 
(www.imss.rdg.ac.uk )*

*Interactive Pervasive Computing Research Themes*

*School** of Systems** Engineering*

*University** of Reading** *

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*Pay grade:** **6*

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*Pay scale:* *_£_*_25134 - *£* 32796 __(approx *€*37K-* €*47.5K)_ per 
annum -subject to annual adjustment in accordance with national agreements.

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*The University of Reading is one of the top twenty research-intensive 
universities in the UK. The Intelligent Media Systems & Services 
Research Laboratory (IMSS, www.imss.reading.ac.uk) is an internationally 
well-established and dynamic group with a large and expanding portfolio 
of EU/DTI/MoD/EPSRC-funded research projects in strategic Computer 
Science and ICT fields and involving close alliances with world-class 
academic and industrial players in the UK and globally. IMSS Research is 
pushing forward the frontiers of innovation in advanced model-driven and 
service-oriented semantic-cognitive architectures as underpinned by 
agent technologies, middleware, ambient intelligence, and, multi-modal 
interfaces including virtual/augmented reality to realise and formally 
validate smart and secure environments.***

We are offering to self-motivated individuals with research leadership 
experience, the opportunity to work within a highly creative team, enjoy 
international collaborative research and present their work at centres 
of excellence in Europe and beyond.

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*You will have:*

*A PhD or Masters Degree qualification in Computer Science or in a 
closely associated discipline with software and systems engineering 
experience (exceptionally a 1st Class Honours Degree with a relevant 
final year project may be considered).** *Additionally* *candidates will 
have working knowledge of one of the 12 fields listed below as their 
specialist area:**

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*1) Data Mining Technologies *

· Data Mining,

· Linked Mining

· Data Warehousing

· Distributed Databases

· Machine Learning, CBR

*2) **Natural Language Processing*

· Dialogue Management

· Multi-modal Indexing

· Query support

*3) **Pattern Recognition & Optimisation*

· Speech & Sound Recognition

· Speaker Recognition

· Image Recognition & Tracking

· Natural Algorithms & Adaptation( Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms)

*4) Enterprise Systems Integration *

· Enterprise Applications J2EE-based Integration and Client Server 
Technologies

· Semantic Workflow Integration

*5) Semantic Service-oriented Systems *

· Ontology Engineering, **

· Semantic Web/Grid

· Web Services

· Profiles Repositories Management

· Agent-broker frameworks

· Dynamic Media Adaptation & Personalisation (MPEG 21 Standards)

· Metadata Standards such as XML, SOAP, .NET etc

· Adaptive Media Transcoding

*6) 3D Modelling*

· 3D Modelling,

· 3D Imaging, Reconstruction,

· Visualisation,

· Virtual Reality

· Augmented Reality

· Image Recognition & Motion Analysis

*7) Access & Tagging Technologies*

· ID Management

· RFID

*8) Communications Technologies*

· Wireless Technology

· Telecommunication Protocols

· Network Security

*9) Embedded Systems:*

· Embedded-systems designs encompassing both hardware and software 
aspects (e.g. VHDL programming, Memory controller interfaces such as 
SRAM, SDR and DDR).

· Experience of a range of parallel -programming techniques: parallel 
loops, loop-nest scheduling, parallel reduction, divide-and-conquer, 
pipelining, task-based parallelism

· Real-time processing and parallel decoding of telecommunication protocols

· FPGA design tools experience

· Sensor Networks

*10) Rights Protection Technologies*

· Digital Rights Management including Finger Printing, WaterMarking & 
relevant MPEG21 standards

*11) **Advanced Multi-modal Interfaces*

· Affective interfaces

· Embedded Conversational Agents (ECAs-Avatars)

*12) **Formal Methods, Simulation *

Successful candidates may have the opportunity to pursue a relevant PhD 
Programme of Research supported under the University staff fee-waiver 
framework.**

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*For informal discussion and further information (e.g. *further 
particulars, job and person specification) *about the posts please 
contact the* IMSS Director, Atta Badii by email (atta.badii@rdg.ac.uk 
) or phone

_00 44 (0)118 378 7842 **_

* *_Closing Date 30th November 2007_

The Application Form is available at _www.reading.ac.uk/Jobs_