CS: Postdoc or PhD at ESAT\KU Leuven

Steven Vandeput just sent me the following:

Dear Igor,
on your blog about compressed sensing, a PhD position in our research department is announced, namely on
http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2011/03/cs-internships-postdoc-and-studentship.htmlIs it possible to replace it by the one in attachment. The reason is that we also want to make it open for postdocs. Deadline is April 25.
Thanks in advance.
Steven

Sure Steven, it's not just possible, I am creating a whole new blog entry just for it:

PhD or postdoc research position: Compressive Sensing for Biomedical Signals

Sparsity decreases computations, memory usage, and data communications. It is required

by increasingly sophisticated information processing devices. The increase in biomedical

measurement techniques (EEG, fMRI, EMG, ECG, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

(MRS), NIRS, …) for diagnosis and follow-up of human diseases, strongly requires

compression in order to keep the dataflow tractable and save battery power in wireless

applications. To extract the relevant information, the biomedical data sets should be

represented sparsely in a context-dependent basis. In general however, this basis is not

known.

The goal of this project is:

1. To identify appropriate bases or learn dictionaries to represent each of the different biomedical signals sparsely and compute the coefficients in this representation

2. To study how nearly-sparse signals can be accurately approximated by sparse signals as preprocessing for compressive signals

3. To optimize compressive sensing techniques for multichannel applications

Ideal candidates should have:

• Strong background in applied mathematics (relevant specialties are: sampling theory, linear algebra, information theory, signal processing, statistics)

• Good programming skills: Matlab

• Knowledge about biomedical applications is an advantage (but not necessary)

How to apply?

If you want to develop such compression tool to represent biomedical signals efficiently and reduce the data storage tremendously and if you like to work in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment, then please send a CV and a cover letter to Professor Sabine Van Huffel (sabine.vanhuffel@esat.kuleuven.be) and Research Manager Steven Vandeput (steven.vandeput@esat.kuleuven.be). Also include the names of two former or current supervisors that can be contacted as references.

Website: www.kuleuven.be/ibbt/jobopenings

Contact information: inge.thijs@esat.kuleuven.be or steven.vandeput@esat.kuleuven.be

The IBBT-K.U.Leuven Future Health Department is part of IBBT, the Institute for Broad Band Technology. IBBT aims to create a lasting and positive impact on society through ICT innovation. IBBT Future Health directs this innovation towards a healthy society, by developing information technologies for health care. To this end, IBBT Future Health combines pioneering research with market-driven R&D, creates synergies with stakeholders and engages in societal outreach. We indeed believe that the key to accessible and efficient health care lies in the cross-fertilization between research, technology and health care itself. IBBT Future Health joins the forces of 100 researchers in four K.U.Leuven research groups, and enables an interdisciplinary approach of innovative ICT for health care thanks to its multifaceted expertise, including data mining, bioinformatics, biomedical data processing, advanced image computing, the creation of e-learning environment, and user experience research. More info at www.kuleuven.be/ibbt.