PhD position in machine learning, computer vision and graphics, Lancaster University

You are invited to apply for a funded 3.5- or 3-year PhD studentship to start in October 2015.
If your application is successful, you will join the Interactive Systems Lab at Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications, a vibrant research team with five academics and a group of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. You will supervised by Dr. Kwang In Kim (https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~kkim/).
Topic: We aim to develop new techniques which enable users to organize and explore imagery data based on their own subjective criteria at a high semantic level. The crux of the problem is to understand how a user could communicate their own criteria without having to know how those criteria might be formed or described at the data level. We aim to form this knowledge into a new machine learning algorithm, which will help users personally organize data to explore it easily.
During your PhD, you will focus on novel algorithms on semi-supervised learning, inference on graph structured data, and automatic feature extraction for imagery analysis. You will need to have a strong background in computer vision and/or machine learning, and high proficiency in Matlab, C, or C++.
Academic Requirements: You must have an excellent degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or closely related field. Having experienced with an MSc project in machine learning, vision, or any related areas is a plus but is not required.
Funding: The Scholarships provide support for PhD studies for a duration of 3 to 3.5 years and include a waiver of tuition fees (partial fee waiver for overseas students), a student maintenance grant (starting £14,000 per year tax free, with annual increments) and a training bursary of £800 per year (e.g., for attending summer schools).
Application Instructions: The formal application has to be submitted by the 15th July via the Postgraduate Admissions Portal:
http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/phd/Studentships
However, you should send an email to Kwang In Kim (k.kim-AT-lancaster.ac.uk) by the 8th July so that he can help you preparing the formal application.