[Students-l] Fwd: [Sigmetrics] Available PhD positions in Scientometrics and Text & Data Mining in the Knowledge Media institute, United Kingdom

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Sigmetrics] Available PhD positions in Scientometrics and 
Text & Data Mining in the Knowledge Media institute, United Kingdom
Date: 	Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:42:15 +0000
From: 	Petr Knoth <petrknoth at gmail.com>
To: 	sigmetrics at mail.asis.org, LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS at jiscmail.ac.uk



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The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a leading research centre 
associated with the Open University, UK. Research in KMi focuses on web 
& data science, natural language processing, information retrieval, 
machine learning and their applications to solve real-world problems. We 
are currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships in the area of Text 
and Data Mining of Scientific Literature. Applications are invited from 
UK, EU and international students. KMi is located in Milton Keynes, 30 
minutes by train from London.

*Available PhD positions:*

- Web-scale research analytics for identifying high performance and 
trends: data-driven approaches to scientometrics

- Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources

- Large-scale real-time aggregation and synchronization of web & 
knowledge resources

- Identifying and predicting research & innovation

- Discovering facts to support or refute claims

- Reproducibility of text and data mining workflows

*Application deadline: 12**^th **April*

*We offer:*

- A team of young, friendly and highly motivated colleagues, who are 
passionate about research.

- A work environment that is well equipped with the newest hardware 
technology

- Strong support for your personal development and career planning

- Ability to publish and attend key conferences

- An attractive work environment both within the research group and beyond

- Collaboration with industry partners and excellent prospects of 
getting your work integrated in real-world applications

- No teaching duties, 100% focus on research and development

- Budget for new kit (typically Mac Pro, large screen, etc.)

- Competitive funding

*You bring:*

- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field (Bachelor degree 
in programs highly related to the advertised topic might be sufficient 
in few cases)

- Ability to communicate ideas clearly both orally as well as in writing 
and fluency in English.

-          Good theoretical foundation and some practical experience 
with at least two of the following: data analysis/statistics, machine 
learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, semantic web.

- Ability to design and prototype software solutions.

-          Solid programming skills.

- Ability to analyse data in Python, R or Matlab.

-          Good knowledge and experience of working with and querying 
databases.

-          Good knowledge of the Linux environment (deployment, 
essential scripting, configuration, logging, etc.).

- Willingness to learn new things every day and seek solutions to 
complex problems.

-          You are able and willing to relocate to the UK and carry out 
your research from within the Open University campus.

Prospective candidates fulfilling the above criteria are encouraged to 
contact me to receive further details prior to official application.

--

Dr Petr Knoth

Senior Research Fellow

Knowledge Media institute, The Open University

Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom

phone: +44 (0)1908 654548, Web:

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/petr-knoth, Twitter: @petrknoth



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