<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Intelligent Systems group of Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen (RUG) is looking for one PhD candidate who will be part of the TrimBot2020 project which is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. The goal of the project is to develop the first outdoor gardening trimming robot. The overall research requires a combination of computer vision, robotics and machine learning activities.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The research conducted at the Intelligent Systems group in Groningen is mainly focused on computer vision, algorithm parallelization and speed-up.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The research is performed in close collaboration with the TrimBot2020 consortium: Bosch, ETH Zürich, University of Amsterdam, University of Edinburgh, University of Freiburg and Wageningen University and Research. Intensive coaching and supervision will be provided by experts in computer vision, image processing, robotics, machine learning.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Please, find more information and the application form at the following url:</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><a href="http://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview?details=00347-02S0005HPP&cat=phd" class="">http://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview?details=00347-02S0005HPP&cat=phd</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Application deadline is May 19th.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Best regards,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Prof. Nicolai Petkov</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Dr. Nicola Strisciuglio</div></body></html>