NEW post-doc opportunity!

EPSRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow: Cognitive Control of Autonomous Systems  Cognitive Signal Image Processing Research (COSIPRA) Laboratory Department of Computing Science & Maths, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

Start date: 1 Jan 2011 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for 3 years

Closing Date for Applications: 1 Dec 2010

The Cognitive Signal Image Processing Research (COSIPRA) Laboratory of Dr. Amir Hussain at the University of Stirling invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the EPSRC project "Dual Process Control Models in the Brain and Machines with Application to Autonomous Vehicle Control". The general aim of this multi-disciplinary project is to exploit a range of similarities between systems in control engineering and the animal brain, focusing specifically on the concepts of automatised and controlled (or executive) processing and how they might map onto modular Autonomous Vehicle Control (AVC) solutions. Given the inherent similarities between the two problem domains of AVC and action selection in animals, this ambitious project aims to leverage new results from psychology and neurobiology discovered in the laboratory of the project Co-Investigator (Prof Kevin Gurney at The University of Sheffield) and apply them to the AVC controllers under development in Dr Hussain's Lab at Stirling. The outcome should be a new generation real-time cognitive AVC controller, more directly inspired by the biological ideas. The appointed postdoctoral researcher will work closely with our industrial partners (Industrial Systems Control and SciSys) to evaluate the benefits of these novel controllers within the challenging context of regular road driving and planetary rover vehicles. The project is based in the COSIPRA Lab, which is part of the Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) of the Department of Computing Science and Maths of the University of Stirling. CIRG is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of cognitive modeling and control of complex systems, and is part of the new School of Natural Sciences. Details about the Department can be found at: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk

Applicants will be working in the field of intelligent adaptive kontrol engineering, but should ideally have some experience of biologically-inspired modelling. The post is full time for 3 years starting from 1st January 2011 or as soon as possible thereafter. Starting salary  will be in the post-doctoral RA scale.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Amir Hussain

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Interested applicants will need to submit a completed application form along  with a CV listing all publications; a pdf of up to three representative  publications and a research statement describing their previous research experience, outlining the relevance to this project. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 1st December 2010. Applications received after this time may not be considered. Interviews are expected to be held around mid-December 2010.

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