Department of Electronic Engineering
Queen Mary, University of London
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in User Profile Building, Interoperability and Synchronisation in Mobile and Consumer Devices. Motorola Labs in Basingstoke, UK (Dr. Paola Hobson, Director, Personalization & Knowledge, BT) has established research collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London (Dr Laurissa Tokarchuk & Dr John Bigham).
The main goal of this PhD Research is to create a “perceive-think-act” framework that can be instantiated in different application scenarios with e.g. different supporting ontologies, different workflows, different triggering mechanisms, and different meta-cognition and learning capabilities according to different applications and devices including mobile handsets, PCs, mp3 players and STB.
The envisaged fundamental research is aimed at emulating intelligent goal-driven mechanisms to provide answers to central questions such as:
• How to build units able to combine information from different environments with information in the memory of their common distributed knowledge to decide upon a course of action. In this project the consequence of the resulting autonomous action should be an event designed to enable optimal interoperability, synchronisation and building of user profiles.
• How a cognition-endowed distributed cooperative system can be used in an environment that links mobile, TV and PC to improve interoperability, synchronisation and building of user profiles.
• Which profiling information should be shared between different applications to improve overall user profiling effectiveness and efficiency.
Study information
- Qualification:
- PhD
- Study duration:
- 3 years
- Study mode:
- FT
- Start month:
- ASAP but it can start any time up to the end of October 2008
- Entry requirements:
- First or upper second class honours degree in Computer Science, or in Elec. Engineering. Prefer MSc in related a topic.
- No. of students per year:
- 1
Funding information
- Funder:
- EPSRC Motorola Industrial CASE Award
- Title:
- EPSRC PhD Studentship in Electronic Engineering
- Value:
- £69144
- Number of awards per year:
- 1
- Funding applies to:
- EU applicants (including UK)
- Funding notes:
- The full studentship will comprise the fees and an annual stipend commencing at £12,608 (stipends are tax exempt) It will be awarded for a period of three years subject to satisfactory progress and is tenable in the Electronic Engineering Department at the Queen Mary, University of London Campus, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, UK.
EU Students: To be eligible for the full studentship EU residents must have resided in the UK for the purposes of study for a minimum of 3 years. Interested EU residents who do not meet this requirement are still eligible to apply but may need to cover some of their own maintenance (not fee) costs. - Funding duration:
- 3 years
