PHD Opportunity: Centre For Machine Vision seeking a suitable PhD candidate for a newly funded project
Centre For Machine Vision at Bristol Robotics Laboratory has been successful in securing funding from SWBio for a new PhD position for a project titled “Vision‐based artificial intelligence and social network analysis for early prediction of disease from cattle behaviours and interactions”.
PhD studentship: “Vision‐based artificial intelligence and social network analysis for early prediction of disease from cattle behaviours and interactions”
This fully funded PhD studentship will aim to develop vision‐based artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to understand changes in social dynamics associated with early and chronic subclinical disease in cows. The project builds on work which used AI to individually identify and track Holstein‐Friesian cows using facial recognition. The work will combine and extend our AI methods and the underlying behavioural science to develop a system that identifies and tracks the movements of individuals, and then detects and classifies social interactions.
The studentship would suit either a computational student interested in social networks and behaviour, or someone with biosciences expertise who wishes to build up artificial intelligence skills.
The student will be based 50%/50% at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of the West of England with Dr Mark Hansen and Professor Melvyn Smith, and Bristol Veterinary School at the University of Bristol, with data scientist Professor Andrew Dowsey, animal biometrics experts Dr Laszlo Talas and Dr John Fennell, and behavioural scientists Dr Suzanne Held and Prof Mike Mendl.
This project in collaboration with the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE) is subject to a joint degree award from these two institutions.
Applications should be made through the University of Bristol - please head over to https://www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/how-to-apply/ and select University of Bristol for more information on how to apply.
Alternatively, you can head over directly to Start your application | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol and search for "South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (PhD)" to find the vacancy.
Please note that the deadline for applications is Midnight, Monday 5 December 2022 for a September 2023 start.
