Postdoctoral Fellowships in Computer Science, São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil (2018)

There are postdoctoral fellowships available inside the thematic project "Mining, Indexing and Visualizing Big Data in Clinical Decision Support Systems - (MIVisBD)", funded by São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP.

We are looking for candidates with innovative ideas to understand and ride the path between computer science and medical systems in the project scenario, willing to work in the threshold between both fields. The candidates must have a recent PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Physics, or related areas.

This opportunity is open to candidates of any nationalities. The selected candidate will receive a FAPESP’s Post-Doctoral fellowship in the amount of R$ 7,174.80 monthly and a research contingency fund, equivalent to 15% of the annual value of the fellowship, which should be spent in items directly related to the research activity.

The research will be developed at the Laboratory of Databases and Images (LaBDI) with the Computer Science Department – Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil. LaBDI is well funded and aim at developing cutting edge research and experimental strategies that result in publications of high impact articles.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Development of methods and algorithms for data management regarding complex data and similarity queries;
- Development of innovative algorithms for dealing with large volume of medical images and video data;
- Design of new feature extraction algorithms for semantic development of content-based image/video retrieval;
- Design of novel algorithms of machine learning to specific medical applications;

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ph.D in computer science, computer engineering, computational math, bioinformatics or related discipline is required;
- Strong programming skills are essential;
- Proven ability for disseminating research results by writing manuscripts and giving academic presentations;
- Candidates must be willing to travel in order to disseminate results and communicate with other scientists;
- Must be able to work closely and communicate effectively with research colleagues;
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Computer Science, São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil (2018)