NSF CAREER Award Ph.D. Position(s) in EECS at the University of California at Merced
Highly-motivated PhD students are sought to start in fall 2013 under Professor Shawn Newsam in the EECS program at the University of California at Merced to work on the NSF funded project "Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information". This project investigates georeferenced social multimedia for geographic discovery. Specifically, community-contributed ground-level images and videos are used to map what-is-where on the surface of the Earth in much the same way that overhead images taken from air- or space-borne platforms have been used for decades in the traditional field of remote sensing. The overarching premise is that georeferenced social multimedia data can be considered a form of volunteered geographic information. Further, it can enable geographic discovery not possible through traditional means.
Funding will be provided by a recent 5-year NSF CAREER award. This award could provide up to 4 years of fully funded graduate student research assistantship for well-qualified student(s).
More information about Professor Newsam's research group can be found at: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/snewsam/
More information about the project can be found at: http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1150115
Students with a strong education and interests in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:
- Image processing and computer vision
- Pattern recognition and machine learning
- Multimedia data analysis
- Geographic information systems/sciences
While the deadline is Jan. 15, 2013, applications received earlier will be considered for additional fellowship support. The selection process is expected to be very competitive.
PLEASE BE SURE TO MENTION PROFESSOR SHAWN NEWSAM and this project in your Statement of Purpose.
For more information about the admission procedure please visit: http://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu/
Contact Name: Professor Shawn Newsam
Contact Email: snewsam@ucmerced.edu
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