Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship, to conduct research into human eye-movements. The project will develop new computational models of visual behaviour, based on recent ideas from computer vision, spatial statistics and time-series analysis. The models will be tested in psychophysical experiments, and implemented in an open-source tool-kit.

All nationalities are eligible to apply for this studentship, which will start in Spring 2015. The studentship is for three years, and covers student fees as well as a tax-free stipend of £15,863 per annum.

Candidates must have a first-class honours degree or equivalent, or a good MSc Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computational Neuroscience, or Experimental Psychology. Experience of programming in e.g. R, Matlab, or Python is essential. Knowledge of mathematical or psychophysical methods would be an advantage.

The PhD supervisors will be Dr. Miles Hansard (Computer Vision) and Dr. Isabelle Mareschal (Experimental Psychology). The project will be part of ongoing research into geometric scene modelling, binocular vision, and visual attention. Please see http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~milesh/ andhttp://www.mareschallab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/ for background. The project will be based in the School of EECS, and informal enquiries can be made to Dr. Miles Hansard (miles.hansard<στο>qmul.ac.uk).

To apply, please follow the on-line process (www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply) by selecting ‘Electronic Engineering’ in the ‘A-Z list of research opportunities’ and following the instructions on the right-hand side of the web page. 

Please note that instead of the ‘Research Proposal’ we request a ‘Statement of Research Interests’. Your statement should answer two questions: (i) Why are you interested in the topic?  (ii) What relevant experience do you have? Your statement should be brief: no more than 500 words or one side of A4 paper. In addition we would also like you to send a sample of your written work. This might be a chapter of your final year dissertation, or a published conference or journal paper. More details can be found at:www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/apply.php

Interviews are expected to take place during the week of 13/04/15.