PhD candidate position at Stoneroos and Eindhoven University of Technology

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
for combined PhD researcher position at Eindhoven University of Technology and Stoneroos BV.

We offer a 4-year full-time PhD research position in the field of Adaptive
Hypermedia and User Modeling at the department of Computer Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
The candidate will be enrolled in FP7 research project EURECA: Enabling
information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care
(http://eurecaproject.eu/) that studies linkage of healthcare information
residing in electronic health record systems with information in clinical
research information systems, such as clinical trials.

The Dutch company Stoneroos BV (http://www.stoneroos.nl/en) is teaming up
with TU/e to contribute to the semantic interoperability and data mining
research aspects in this project in order to design a personalized
information source for patients (and patient groups). Stoneroos is an
innovative company, sprouted from the TV-domain, which focuses on products
like iTV applications, second screen apps, metadata enrichment, etc.,
bringing cutting-edge technologies like semantic Web technology in the area
of personalization to the real world, resulting e.g. in the iFanzy
personalized TV recommender system. TU/e has guided that research in the
past and has extensive experience in data mining and personalization.

RESEARCH PROJECT AND TASK DESCRIPTION
In the EURECA project 18 partners from 8 countries work together to offer
better information to both patients and specialists, using many ICT
techniques such as information system architecture, semantic
interoperability, data mining and knowledge discovery.

The successful candidate will focus on a set of tasks aiming to integrate
state-of-the-art and yet to be invented techniques in personalization, user
modeling, semantic interoperability and data-driven intelligence for
developing personalized/adaptive information services for different groups
of patients and medical professionals.
It is expected that the PhD candidate will be involved in the complete R&D
cycles including theory/framework building, implementation of the software
prototypes, experimentation with real data and evaluations/user studies.

PROFILE
We are looking for highly motivated applicants with a Master degree in
Computer Science or other related disciplines. You are expected to have good
knowledge and at least some experience in one or more of the following
areas:
- Personalization and user modeling,
- Semantic interoperability,
- Data mining, recommender systems, information retrieval.
Successful candidates are expected to posses
- Good analytical and software development skills,
- Good command of spoken and written English,
- Good communication skills and willingness to collaborate with other
researchers and developers having diverse background,
- Experience with writing research papers and technical reports is a plus,
but not mandatory,
- Basic knowledge of medical informatics and clinical research is a plus,
but not mandatory.

CONDITION
Stoneroos is offering a position as researcher and software developer in the
EURECA project. The assignment involves a full-time position for 4 years.
The candidate is expected to prepare and defend a PhD at TU/e within these 4
years.

As researcher/developer you will be staying on average 3 to 4 days a week at
Stoneroos and 1 to 2 days at the TU/e for guidance in the PhD process and
further collaboration with the TU/e researchers, mainly prof. dr. Paul De
Bra, dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy and dr. George Fletcher.

You will also collaborate with researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
and Philips Research taking part in EURECA, and participate in the Dutch
national research school SIKS: School for Information and Knowledge Systems.

APPLICATION
Applications including CV, (link to) master thesis, motivation letter and 2
references for recommendation should be sent by email to
tue.stoneroos@gmail.com.

For more information about the job description, please send inquiries to the
same e-mail address (or one of the corresponding advisors).

The screening process will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Candidates must be available to start working in this position at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 1st, 2012.