[Insight-users] Research Positions in Vancouver, BC

[Ghassan Hamarneh]

Dear Colleagues,


                    Research Positions in Vancouver, BC

     http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~hamarneh/research_position.pdf


The Graphics, Usability, and Visualization Lab (GrUVi)
(http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca)
and the Medical Image Analysis Lab  (MIAL) (http://mial.fas.sfu.ca)
are two rapidly growing synergetic labs at the School of  Computing  Science
at  Simon  Fraser  University  with  close  ties  to  local  hospitals   and
clinicians. We are engaged in several exciting  research  projects  for  the
analysis and visualization of  medical  imaging  data,  aiming  at  building
diagnostic  tools  to  be  employed  in  clinical   practice   through   our
collaborators at the Vancouver  General  Hospital  as  well  as  Lions  Gate
Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Currently, our group is engaged in projects  aiming  at  testing  new  drugs
through dynamic functional SPECT imaging. New diagnostic tools  need  to  be
developed for use during patient trials. These tools will perform  fast  and
accurate  dynamic  reconstruction  algorithms,  display  and  interact  with
dynamic medical images  in  real-time,  as  well  as  analyze,  segment  and
register images by taking advantage of the time-varying nature of the  data.
Our group has recently been awarded  grants  by  the  Natural  Sciences  and
Engineering Research Council of Canada  aimed  at  developing  a  diagnostic
medical imaging tool for use in a clinical setting.

Our group is seeking proactive and highly talented young researchers at  the
post-doctoral level with proven track  record  of  publications  in  leading
international journals and conferences. In addition, we  have  openings  for
graduate students at the Masters and PhD  levels.  Post-doctoral  candidates
should be highly  creative,  have  the  ability  to  carry  out  independent
research but  work  embedded  in  a  research  team,  and  be  endowed  with
excellent communication and leadership skills  so  as  to  collaborate  with
other peers and co-supervise graduate students. The ability  to  work  in  a
multidisciplinary team and interact with other disciplines is essential.

All applicants should have a strong background in mathematics, physics,  and
computing (e.g. matrix algebra,  probability  and  multivariate  statistics,
PDEs), excellent algorithmic and  programming  skills  (e.g.  MATLAB  C/C++,
ITK, VTK), and demonstrated scientific writing experience.

Candidates with expertise in the following areas will  be  given  particular
attention:

Visualization and graphics:  time-varying data visualization, real-time
rendering, GPU programming, user interfaces, clustering analysis,
computational geometry, multi-dimensional scaling, multi-resolution
techniques,

Medical image computing: 2D and 3d image processing, rigid and elastic
multi-modal image registration, model-based image segmentation,
reconstruction from projections, information theoretic approaches to
computer vision

Biomedical engineering: clinical tool specification and quality assurance,
evaluation of tools and methods in clinical environments, system
development, coordination of applied research and technology transfer to
industry and clinical centers

Post-doctoral candidates:
Starting dates are as soon as January 2006; positions will be for  a  period
of 2 to 3 years. No positions will be considered  for  less  than  2  years.
Salaries are negotiable and commensurate with qualifications and  experience
of the applicants. Interested candidates should submit a letter  of  purpose
indicating  their  area  of  interest,  salary  expectations,  CV  including
contact details of  3  referees,  and  sample  publications  to  Dr.  Möller
(torsten at cs.sfu.ca) at their earliest convenience.

PhD or MSc applicants:
Starting dates will be September 2006. The applicants  will  have  to  apply
online   through   the   School   of   Computing   Science    (details    at
www.cs.sfu.ca/gradpgm). The application deadline  is  Feb  1,  2006.  Please
notify Dr. Möller (torsten at cs.sfu.ca) about your intentions.

Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh and Dr. Torsten Möller
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
Canada
Email: hamarneh at cs.sfu.ca, torsten at cs.sfu.ca