<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">1 PhD position available – Deep Learning Skin Cancer Detection<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">We have a unique opportunity to pursue doctoral research on Deep Learning, a relevant topic of academic and industrial interest; and acquire an excellent academic and industrial background from top actors in the field.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The focus will be skin cancer detection using Deep Learning, with the aim of developing a new software able to detect and classify skin cancer images from dermatoscopic and total body skin images.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The PhD will be developed<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">- partly in the VICOROB lab (University of Girona, Spain), pioneers and recognized experts in medical image analysis, authors of several of the most relevant Total Body Skin Scanner papers.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">- and partly in Coronis Computins SL (Girona, Spain), in one of the spin-off from the VICOROB group, where the technology from the Total Body Skin Scanner is developed. Also Coronis participates in several European projects.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">PhD topic summary<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Deep Learning is one of the key technologies for computer vision. Deep Learning is able to perform detection and classification of images over several other applications.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Deep Learning has been applied in skin cancer detection, segmentation and classification using dermatoscopic images, using images like the ones proposed on the ISBI challenges.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The core topic of the PhD will extend these databases with new images from referent hospitals, checking the performance of existing algorithms and proposing new ones. Also these algorithms will be applied to Total Body Skin images acquired with our specific device, using these algorithms with TBP is one of the less explored research problems in the field.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Job description<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Research in the field of Deep Learning<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Develop and evaluate novel algorithms for Deep Learning<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Develop efficient Computer Vision algorithms and software<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Analysis of research community, cooperate with and contribute to the<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">research in the host labs<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Publish scientific articles with the developed algorithms and results<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Attend scientific conferences and events to present your research results<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Prepare a doctoral thesis related with the research project<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Requirements<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Very good Master degree(s) in Engineering, Physics, Robotics, Computer Science or a related field, with a solid background in machine learning and/or computer vision<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Excellent academic background<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* High personal initiative, independent and structured way of working<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Demonstrable programming skills, preferably C/C++, Matlab and/or Python<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Demonstrable practical experience and knowledge in Machine Learning, and/or Computer Vision<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Convincing appearance, high commitment combined with interpersonal skills<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">in teams<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">* Fluent English, written and spoken, knowledge of academic English<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Application<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Please send your applications by email to <a href="http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist_visionscience.com" class=""><span class="" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">josep.quintana at coronis.es</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Please include a brief statement of interests and a curriculum vita (no letters of reference required at this stage). There is no deadline for the application but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as the position will be filled as soon as a suitable applicant is found.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>