We are recruiting a Research Assistant for the four-month project 'Evaluation of commodity gaze-trackers for large-scale neuropsychological studies'. The objective is to characterize the performance of new gaze-tracking systems (e.g. EyeTribe), for possible clinical and psychophysical applications. This will involve user experiments, as well as computational modelling.
This is a joint project, supervised by Miles Hansard (EECS) and Isabelle Mareschal (Experimental Psychology), and funded by a Wellcome Trust grant to the QMUL Life Sciences Institute. The successful candidate will join a research group working on 3D vision, eye-movements, and scene-modelling. There will be opportunities to work with a range of new devices, including head-mounted displays (Oculus Rift).
Candidates should have previous experience of Matlab and/or JavaScript programming. Knowledge of signal processing and data analysis is also essential. Previous experience of eye-tracking, web-based experiments, or computer vision would be useful.
Candidates should have a PhD in computer science, engineering, experimental psychology, or a related field. Candidates in the final stages of PhD submission (or having an MSc plus relevant experience) will also be considered.
The post is full-time and available immediately for four months, to start no later than 01/04/2016. The salary will be in the range £32,052 – £35,672 per annum. Applicants must already have permission to work in the UK, for the duration of the post.
Applications should consist of a CV (including publications, and the email addresses of two referees), as well as a one-page research statement (including details of programming experience). These PDFs should be emailed, with subject 'Gaze RA Application', to miles.hansard@qmul.ac.uk before the deadline of 14/02/2016.
Enquiries should be addressed to miles.hansard@qmul.ac.uk
For further information, please see:
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~milesh/
http://isabelle-mareschal.squarespace.com/
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/