Research Specialist

Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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The Department of Computer Science is a major teaching department at UNC Chapel Hill with over 30 tenured/tenure track faculty, four teaching track faculty, eight research faculty, and 18 adjunct faculty, who serve more than a thousand undergraduate students and hundreds of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Teaching and research activities are currently assisted by nearly 200 graduate students. Twenty-four SHRA positions and eight EHRA-NF positions, including technical and administrative personnel, support the infrastructure of the department. The Department's driving research ideal is collaboration - as it has been since the founding of the department in 1964. We believe that computer science's greatest purpose is in working with other scientists to solve problems in their own disciplines. Therefore, we actively seek opportunities to generate new research with our colleagues and with scientists in other departments across campus, including in science, medicine, and the humanities. Numerous computer science faculty members have adjunct or joint appointments in other departments, lead large interdisciplinary research groups, and collaborate with colleagues from multiple universities across the Research Triangle, the United States, and even the world.

This Research Specialist will be conducting research on computer vision problems, implementing and evaluating algorithms. The research assistant will also write papers to summarize the contributions of the proposed algorithms.

Bachelor's degree in a discipline related to the area of assignment; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

Research experience in computer vision, machine learning and AI. Have published paper(s) in computer vision venues.

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