Research Assistant - Egham, United Kingdom - Royal Holloway University of London

Royal Holloway University of London

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Egham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Department of Computer Science:

Location:

Egham
Salary:

- £31,896 to £37,442 per annum - including London Allowance
Post Type:

Full Time
Closing Date:

hours BST on Wednesday 03 May 2023
Reference:
Full time, fixed term

The Department, established in 1968 (one of the oldest Computer Science departments in the world), is one of the top departments of Computer Science in the UK.

In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), it scored 11th for the quality of the research output, with a third of the publications recognised as world-leading and a further half internationally excellent (87% in total).

The Department is home to outstanding researchers in algorithms and complexity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and distributed and global computing.

Over the past five years, the department has undertaken an ambitious plan of expansion:

fifteen new academic members of staff were appointed, new undergraduate and integrated-master programmes were created, and five new postgraduate-taught programmes were launched.

The department is involved in multiple inter/multidisciplinary activities, from electrical engineering to psychology and social sciences.

The position is funded by the Innovate UK grant "Demeter: Intelligence Scavenging", held by Prof Sara Bernardini, in the context of the program "Subsea autonomous systems: next generation technologies".

The project will be carried out by a consortium including industry (Autonomous Devices, Signaloid, D-RisqQ and CRP Subsea) and academia (University of Strathclyde and University of Manchester).

Demeter uses energy-harvesting, intelligent, uncrewed vehicles to provide a persistent, infrastructure-independent subsea sensor data retrieval and analysis service.

Demeter will enable more cost-effective predictive maintenance of subsea assets, greatly reduce OPEX and downtime, and ultimately lower the cost and environmental impact of exploiting renewable and non-renewable offshore resources alike.

Key innovations include long-endurance, energy-harvesting, hybrid underwater and surface autonomous vehicles; an onboard edge-processing module (based on a novel computer architecture) capable of performing intensive statistical analysis of harvested sensor data at a fraction of the power of current technologies; a technology stack for high-integrity long-term autonomous navigation and decision making; and embedded subsea sensors adapted for data retrieval by the autonomous vehicles.

As an integrated solution, Demeter aims to shift the subsea monitoring paradigm from one of manual, expensive, and low-frequency data retrieval to that of automated, inexpensive, high frequency and on-demand intelligence retrieval.

In return, we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package (including generous annual leave and training and development opportunities), close interaction with industry via secondments and collaborations with world-leading research institutions in the UK and abroad, in addition to:

Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.
Free parking

The post is based in Egham, Surrey, where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within 20-minute commuting distance from London.

Please quote the reference
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Closing Date
:23:59, 3 May 2023

Interview Date
:
To Be Confirmed

Further details: