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Postdoctoral position in software agents for model based diagnosis, London (U.K.)

Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Computer Science
Postdoctoral Researcher in Software Agents for Model Based Diagnosis
Salary is in the range 32,256 to 38,072 per annum inclusive of London 
Allowance.

Applications are invited for a fully funded Post-doctoral research position to 
work on the COMMODITY12 project, an EU funded project aiming to design, build, 
and validate an intelligent system for the analysis of multi-parametric medical 
data about diabetes and cardio-vascular disease. The project will integrate 
state-of-the-art sensor networks, software interoperation, and artificial 
intelligence techniques in order to realize the concept of translational 
medicine by means of a Personal Health System. Work at Royal Holloway involves 
building an artificial intelligence layer to deploy logic-based agents applying 
diagnostic reasoning to the patient's condition related to diabetes and 
cardiovascular co-morbidities.

You should have a PhD ideally or be near completion of your PhD in Computer 
Science or similar.  Research experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, 
Electrical Engineering, or a cognate discipline, and should ideally have a 
strong background in some of the following areas: computational logic, 
knowledge representation, model-based diagnostic reasoning and machine 
learning. Good programming skills of Prolog is a requirement and experience 
with agent-oriented programming a plus.

The contract will be for a period of up to 34 months.

The post is based in Egham in Surrey.

Please complete an online application and provide your CV with details of any 
publications, Covering letter of why you wish to apply for this post.
Further details and an application form are available to download at 
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/jobs/home.aspx or by contacting the Recruitment Team by 
email: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk or tel: 01784 414241

Please quote the reference: X0112/6695

Closing date:  midnight 9th February 2012

The College is committed to equality and diversity, and encourages applications 
from  all sections of the community.