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Job description

Department

The University of Essex is gold rated in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2017 and we’re in the top 25 for research quality in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide. We’re committed to excellence in research for the benefit of individuals, communities, and the industry, and we provide extensive open access to our research repository.

The Essex Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre brings together the research skills, expertise and technologies across our Faculty of Humanities, Science and Health, and Social Sciences to address the grand challenges facing citizens, workers, and all those technologists in sectors undergoing the digital transformation to create new – or modify existing – business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements.

We have the ambition of developing a sustainable funding model for our research fit for the rigours of the emerging UK research environment. We reach beyond the confines of academia as we have a clear mandate to work with business partners in the UK and overseas. We’re different because we bring a commercial mind-set to our work. We start with and are responsive to business needs. We work hard to make sure they are getting the outputs they need, when they need them. We’re not bound by tradition and offer fresh perspective and innovation in all we do.

Duties of the Role

Recently, we secured funding from Innovate UK for the project titled: Brain Computer Interface driven rehabilitation of upper limb weakness of stroke survivors (Neurestore, project number 106293). As part of this 3-year project we are looking to recruit two Research Officers that will work along with our Investigators to develop a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) approach to exploit electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns, triggering feedback or an action output from an exoskeleton for stroke survivors who suffer upper limb impairment. To deliver these research objectives, the Research Officers will be supervised by the Principal Investigator, Dr Panos Chatzakos, and the Co-Investigators, Dr Anirban Chowdhury, and Dr Andrew Bateman, of the research project.

These are full-time, fixed-term posts until 31 October 2022.

Skills and qualifications required

The postholder will hold a BSc in Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience and have experience with multi-channel data acquisition systems and working with large and complex datasets. Additionally, they will possess programming skills in MATLAB, C and Python and have working experience with microcontrollers such as Arduino/Raspberry Pi as well as app development experience with Android studio, C#, Kotin, etc.

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Please see the attached job pack, which contains a full job description and person specification which outlines the full duties, skills, qualifications and experience needed for this role plus more information relating to the post. We recommend you read this information carefully before making an application. Applications should be made on-line, but if you would like advice or help in making an application, or need information in a different format, please telephone the Resourcing Team (01206 876559).

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Job details

Job title: Research Officer, Essex Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre
Job reference: REQ04267
Application closing date: 18/01/2021
Location: Colchester
Salary: £30,942 – £33,797 per annum
Employment type: Fixed-term, Full-time
Job category/type: Research
Attachments: REQ04267_Jobpack.pdf