[Openembedded-architecture] [Job] Postdoc position available for our new FET-PROACT project

[Jørgen Christian Larsen]

Postdoc position available for our new FET-PROACT project

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The Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Lab (http://ens-lab.sdu.dk/), part of
Centre for BioRobotics (CBR) at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at
the University of Southern Denmark, is offering:

One postdoc position starting from Marts 2017 or as soon as possible
thereafter, for up to four years.

The postdoc will work on our exciting Plan4Act: “Predictive Neural
Information for Proactive Actions: From Monkey Brain to Smart House
Control” project recently funded by FET-Proactive (Area 2: Biotech for
better life) under Horizon 2020 Framework Program.

The goal of the Plan4Act project is to record and understand predictive
neural activity from monkey brain and use it to proactively control
devices in a smart house. The far-future vision behind this is to endow
motor-impaired patients with the ability to plan a daily-life goal –
like making coffee – and achieve it without having to invoke one by one
every single individual action to reach this goal.

In the context of the project, we provide the following topic for the
position:

“Embedded system technology”: You will focus on the development of a
controller board based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for the
hardware implementation of the adaptive neural-based control. The
FPGA-based hardware controller will interface with a neural recording
device and a smart house. It will receive neural activities from the
monkey brain through the recording device, process the information, and
transmit final commands to a smart house.

The successful candidates will be expected to have:

1) A PhD degree in embedded system, electrical engineering and computer
science, robotics or a quantitative field.

2) Articles published in international peer-reviewed journals
documenting experience with brain machine interface, embedded systems,
FPGA systems (Design), FPGA interfacing, Neural Networks in FPGAs etc.

3) Strong background on system integration, FPGA system design, PCB
design, Circuit Design, Xilinx FPGAs, Micro Blaze, Zynq, Neural Networks
in FPGAs.

4) Good programming skills (e.g., VHDL, C, C++, Matlab Simulink).

Additionally, the candidate should have excellent writing skills and be
able to work independently. The successful candidate for the position
will be affiliated to the Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Lab at the
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, the University of Southern Denmark.

The applicant should provide a covering letter explaining his/her
approach to the problem, and at most three articles illustrating his/her
publication record and research interests, in addition to standard items
such as CV, full publication list, etc. (see below).

Applications will be considered continuously until the position is filled.

Contact Information: Further information is available from Assistant
Prof. Jørgen Christian Larsen, email jcla at mmmi.sdu.dk

Research environment: Please see http://ens-lab.sdu.dk/contact/ for the
location of the Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Lab.

To get a better idea of related research, please visit
http://ens-lab.sdu.dk/

Application, salary and conditions of employment etc.
Employment as postdoc is temporary. Level of qualification is a PhD.

If special circumstances exist employment may be extended for one year.

Research will be predominant in the position. Teaching assignments can
be agreed individually. Furthermore, other types of assignments may
occur to a limited degree.

The Faculty determines the distribution of the various assignments. The
weighting of the different assignments may vary over time.

Applications will be assessed by an expert. Applicants will be informed
of their assessment by the Faculty.

As part of the overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, an
interview may be applied.

The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the
agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish
Confederation of Professional Associations), Cirkulære om overenskomst
for Akademikere i staten 2015.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link below.
Attached files must be in Adobe PDF or Word format. Each box can only
contain a single file of max. 10 Mb.

An application must include:

Application
Curriculum Vitae
Certificates/Diplomas (Master and PhD degree)
Information on previous teaching experience, please attach as Teaching
portfolio
List of publications indicating the publications attached
Examples of the most relevant publications. Please attach one pdf-file
for each publication, a possible co-author statement must be a part of
this pdf-file
Further information for international applicants about entering and
working in Denmark.

The University encourages all interested persons to apply, regardless of
age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background.


Campus:
Odense
       

Application deadline:
27/02/2017

Apply online:
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-- 
Jørgen Christial Larsen, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
University of Southern Denmark