Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Deepscorenet Project

About the Role This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a pioneering image analysis project in collaboration with the University and our NHS partner, Birmingham Children’s Hospital. To develop techniques for the automated assignment of appearance scores to acquired images of the patients after cleft repair. The post will allow a successful candidate to work in a cutting-edge area while driving the project’s aim to automate the process to assign aesthetic outcome scores as an indicator of the quality of the cleft repair, from which various issues can be further investigated such as identification of best practice.  We are looking for a creative and innovative thinker and developer who will take the lead and make a significant contribution to the development of automated techniques and solutions to the field, disseminate the research findings in both national and international venues, and impose some impact on the thinking and practices of the relevant stakeholders: patients, family members, surgeons, social carers, and policy-makers in the NHS sector and services. You will gain the rare opportunity and experience in working and networking with computer scientists, biologists, surgeons, and charity administrators, and acquire an excellent set of skills in scientific research in both academic, NHS and charity sectors.    For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Professor Yonghuai Liu, Professor of Computer Games and Graphics at Liuyo@edgehill.ac.uk  About You As Image Analysis Solutions Developer you will: Be willing to lead the way on the development of image analysis applications Be creative and innovative. Be a self-starter who can work independently as well as part of a team. Have a drive for learning and enjoy working creatively. Have good skills in communication and organisation. Possess experience in, or a strong understanding of, computer programming, image processing, computer vision, and/or machine/deep learning. Internal staff wishing to apply for a fixed term role as a secondment opportunity must discuss this with their existing line manager before applying. Rewards & Benefits A minimum of 38 days annual leave per annum (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)  Free foreign language evening classes  Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and as health & wellbeing resources. A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career. Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment. Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8% About Us  At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before.  Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff. Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world.