[AUDITORY] Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the COG-MHEAR hearing technology research programme and NATGEN project

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We have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow role advertised at Edinburgh Napier University:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CVA988/research-fellow (closing date: 28 Nov)

Edinburgh Napier University is seeking to appoint a full-time (or part-time) Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the prestigious EPSRC funded Programme Grant: COG-MHEAR, led by Programme Director (PD): Professor Amir Hussain, based in the School of Computing. The work may involve conducting related research as part of the EPSRC funded project on Natural Language Generation for Low-Resource Domains (NATGEN), jointly led by Dr. Dimitra Gkatzia and Prof. Amir Hussain.

COG-MHEAR is a world-leading cross-disciplinary research programme funded under the EPSRC Transformative Healthcare Technologies 2050 Call. It aims to develop the world’s first multi-modal hearing-aid demonstrators by radically exploiting and integrating the transformative potential of privacy-assuring and explainable AI, 5G, IoT, wireless sensing and cybersecurity, coupled with flexible (skin-based) electronics. More details on: http://cogmhear.org.uk

NATGEN is pioneering the development of privacy-preserving and emotion-sensitive conversational agents for natural language dialogue in low-resource domains. This is aimed at helping improve the mental health of young people.

Further information about the School of Computing can be found HERE. Additional facts and figures on the University can be found HERE.  

The role

The role involves taking a leading research role in one or more individual, collaborative project in COG-MHEAR and supporting priority NATGEN project areas, under the direction of Prof. Hussain. Flexible part-time appointments may also be considered.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertake world-leading research in one or more priority COG-MHEAR and NATGEN project areas, involving development of trustworthy machine learning approaches for audio-visual speech enhancement and conversational agents. Current priority areas for the Research Fellow include the followings:
• Real-time audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement in multi-modal real-life and AR/VR environments, with a focus on privacy-preserving/federated and explainable machine/transfer learning models, AV beamforming and large-scale optimisation for low-energy, mobile/edge and on-chip systems. (COG-MHEAR priority area)
• Emotion-sensitive, multi-modal natural language processing/generation and evaluation of conversational agents in low-resource domains. (NATGEN priority area with links to related COG-MHEAR projects on multi-modal cognitive load/listening effort-aware AV speech enhancement in real-life and AR/VR environments).
• Real-time 5G-IoT and wireless sensing enabled AV hearing-aid prototype development, including exploring novel approaches to MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) antenna integration and brain-inspired flexible/quantum-electronics based wearable implementations. (COG-MHEAR priority area - this work may involve stays at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester).

Who we are looking for

A highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who brings:

• World-class research experience in machine learning, audio-visual speech processing, hearing-aid signal processing, natural language processing/generation, high performance computing or related areas
• A strong relevant publication record in top journals and conferences
• A track-record of contributing to funding proposals and making effective independent contributions to collaborative research teams
• a demonstrated ability to solve real-world problems independently and make original contributions to research
• Excellent programming and quantitative research and teamworking skills

 

For more information about the post and how to apply, please visit:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CVA988/research-fellow

 

 

Deadline: 28 Nov 2022 (23:59 GMT)

 

 

For informal inquiries about the position, please contact Prof Amir Hussain (A.Hussain@xxxxxxxxxxxx) or Dr. Dimitra Gkatzia (D.Gkatzia@xxxxxxxxxxxx).

 

 

Best regards

Dorothy

 

Dr. Dorothy Hardy (She/her)

Research Fellow and Research Programme Manager

COG-MHEAR research programme: Future Hearing Technology

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

 

Email: D.Hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Web: COG-MHEAR (cogmhear.org)

 

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