Responsibilities
The Centre conducts excellent, internationally competitive scientific research in the areas of visual sciences, human factors and design, communication, and artificial intelligence delivered by high-calibre multidisciplinary research teams. CYENS engages in knowledge transfer and innovation activities aiming to bridge the gap between scientific research and STEM-led innovation and entrepreneurship.
The research focus of CYENS is on interactive media, smart systems, and emerging technologies. Interactive media have become an integral part of our lives, changing the way that information is conveyed to the user and the ways users interact with devices, with other people, and with the world around them. Smart systems have offered a novel way of producing automated solutions to hard problems for which the mere use of the human intellect is insufficient. Research in CYENS integrates the Visual Sciences, Human Factors & Design, and Communications & Artificial Intelligence, in a tight synergy that provides a unique interdisciplinary research perspective that emphasizes an “Inspired by Humans, Designed for Humans” philosophy. CYENS is designed to act as an integrator of academic research and industrial innovation, towards the sustainable fuelling of the scientific, technological, and economic growth of Cyprus and Europe.
The successful candidate will be involved in new and ongoing research projects that involve the development of novel applications that utilize smart emerging technologies. Within this context emerging technologies refer to smart Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality Applications or other related applications. As part of the duties the successful candidate will carry out research-related activities that include literature review, application development and evaluation, scientific paper authoring, research dissemination activities (i.e. presentations at conferences), research proposal preparation, and research program coordination.
The successful candidate will work under the supervision of the Biometrics for Smart Human-centered Emerging Technologies (BIO-SCENT) MRG Leader, Dr Andreas Lanitis.
Responsibilities of the Computer Vision/Machine Learning Research Associate:
- Research Proposal preparation
- Development of new applications, that includes implementation, data gathering, testing and demonstration.
- Preparation/presentation of research papers
- Contact with possible end users of the research conducted
- Participation in externally founded research projects.