Hi, I have an NSF-funded PhD position for someone to someone to work on an unusual cross- disciplinary project that spans ecology, marine biology and computer science. The project is to develop a real-time camera-based fish identification system, for coral reef fish community surveys. I'm looking for someone with some combination of the following skills and/or interests: computer science/mathematics (especially machine vision or image processing), statistics (especially classification and/or machine learning), ecology, marine science/aquaculture. A Masters degree is desirable, but not essential.
The student will be based in the Federated Department of Biological Sciences of Rutgers and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which is in Newark, NJ, and will be working with me, as well as with Joe Wilder and another graduate student based at CAIP in Rutgers New Brunswick. The position is fully funded for three years. After that, support will come from further funding, or via a TA position. For further details about the project, or the position, e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are interested, send me a CV. Please also forward this to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks, Gareth Russell NJIT and Rutgers
