[agents] 2 Postdoc positions: TASCC: The Cooperative Car

[Nathan Griffiths]

TASCC: The Cooperative Car
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Two Fixed Term Contracts (24 and 36 months)

Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK

We are seeking to recruit up to two postdoctoral research fellows to work
on scalable analysis and mining of data from passenger vehicles.

You will work under the supervision of Dr Nathan Griffiths, Prof Graham
Cormode, Dr Abhir Bhalerao and Prof Stephen Jarvis on the EPSRC/Jaguar Land
Rover funded project "TASCC: The Cooperative Car". The aim of this 5 year
project is to improve the driving experience and increase safety and
efficiency through enhanced autonomy and cooperation. Specifically, the
project will develop and apply techniques in data mining, machine learning,
agent-based systems and behavioural sciences, to build cooperative software
systems, and develop methods for predicting, modelling and influencing
driver behaviour.

You will possess a PhD degree in Computer Science or a closely related
discipline (or you will shortly be obtaining it). You will contribute to
the creation of data mining and prediction models from on-board vehicle
data and/or the development of sketch techniques and algorithms for data
summarisation. You should have a strong background in one or more of the
following areas:
 * data mining
 * machine learning
 * signal processing
 * signal selection, feature extraction and/or feature selection
 * mining/analysis of vehicle telemetry data
 * real-time machine learning
 * mining/analysis of geo-spatial data
 * dimensionality reduction, sketching or compression
 * time series analysis
 * high dimensional data analysis
 * collection and analysis of physiological data (e.g. EDA, HRV, EEG)

You should have excellent programming abilities, and good written and
verbal communication skills to enable you to communicate effectively with
the project partners and contribute to writing scientific articles.

Position 1: Data mining of on-board vehicle data

This position involves creation of data mining and prediction models that
support a new class of intelligent vehicle features using in-depth
knowledge of occupant and vehicle data. Analysing high-dimensional data,
applying real-time classifiers, and contending with concept drift, to
create accurate pattern-of-life analysis using categorical and navigation
data. This will involve development of signal selection, feature extraction
and feature selection techniques; development of pattern-of-life/behaviour
prediction and modelling methods; modelling and predicting vehicle usage
patterns; modelling driver cognitive load and persona using vehicle and
physiological data.

Position 2: Sketch techniques and algorithms for data summarisation

The challenges to be addressed in this project involve the development of
novel data summarisation and analysis (sketch) techniques for vehicle
sourced data to cope with sequentiality of observations, evolving trends,
seasonality, local periodicity, and correlation of information across
multiple sensors, scales and granularities. You will develop and evaluate
new lightweight sketch techniques for: in-vehicle sensor data; hierarchical
data analysis across multiple levels of granularity; and cross-correlation
of sensors within and across vehicles, with relatively low-bandwidth
communication.

Candidates should provide with their application form, a CV and list of
publications. Informal enquiries to Nathan.Griffiths at warwick.ac.uk are
welcome.

Please see the following links (or search on
https://static.wcn.co.uk/company/uow/job_search.html) for details:

Position 1: Data mining of on-board vehicle data:
https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?amNvZGU9MTUyNDcyNyZvd25lcj01MDYyNDUyJm93bmVydHlwZT1mYWlyJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT02MzUmdnRfdGVtcGxhdGU9MTQ1NyZyZXFzaWc9MTQ0Nzc2MTM4NC1mOTVjNTM0YmUxZDBhMTUxMTRlYTc5ZjdjNjgyZjBmOTU3MzQ3ZTRl&jcode=1524727&owner=5062452&ownertype=fair&posting_code=635&vt_template=1457&reqsig=1447761384-f95c534be1d0a15114ea79f7c682f0f957347e4e

Position 2: Sketch techniques and algorithms for data summarisation:
https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?amNvZGU9MTUyNDc0MiZvd25lcj01MDYyNDUyJm93bmVydHlwZT1mYWlyJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT02MzUmdnRfdGVtcGxhdGU9MTQ1NyZyZXFzaWc9MTQ0Nzc2MTUyMi1hMDBjODIxODg4ZDdjNjU3ZGFmY2NkOTNhNzJjYTVjZDAxYzk2NWY0&jcode=1524742&owner=5062452&ownertype=fair&posting_code=635&vt_template=1457&reqsig=1447761522-a00c821888d7c657dafccd93a72ca5cd01c965f4

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Dr Nathan Griffiths
Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/nathangriffiths