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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear ITK users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I would like to bring to your attention a cool opportunity to work with leading research group in the area of Medical imaging and computer vision. Please feel free to reach out to me or Antonio (<a href="mailto:antcrim@microsoft.com">antcrim@microsoft.com</a>)
if you are interested in opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<br>
Sayan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Sayan Pathak, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Medical Imaging R&D</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"> |
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Health Solutions Group <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Microsoft Corporation</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">E: </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:sayanpa@microsoft.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">sayanpa@microsoft.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">
P: 425.538.7386</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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studentship at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">in collaboration with Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK are looking for a student to start a<b> PhD in medical image analysis</b>, under the supervision of Prof. N. Ayache and Dr A. Criminisi.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The <a href="http://www.inria.fr/recherche/equipes/asclepios.en.html">
Asclepios project-team</a> has three main objectives: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Analysis of Biomedical Images with advanced geometrical, statistical, physical and functional models,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB">Simulation of Physiological Systems with Computational Models built from biomedical images and other signals,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB">Application of previous tools to Medicine and Biology to assist prevention, diagnosis and therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">During the past decade, the Asclepios team has developed an international reputation for its research along these lines, and has established strong partnerships with leading industrial
companies and academic research labs all around the world.<br>
The Asclepios research lab is located within the <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/index.php?page=lecentre_en">
INRIA centre of Sophia-Antipolis</a>, in a very nice environment only 15 minutes from the Nice Airport.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/medicalimageanalysis/default.aspx">
Medical Image Analysis</a> research group at Microsoft Research is developing technology to push the state of the art on automatic and semi-automatic analysis of medical images. The team is also involved in developing new technology for Microsoft’s healthcare
software, Amalga. The group’s focus is (amongst other things) on <i>automatic organ recognition and segmentation</i>,
<i>organ modelling,</i> <i>interactive segmentation, detection and segmentation of lesions, real-time 3D visualization and touch-less interaction for surgical applications</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We are looking for strong candidates to join the INRIA Asclepios medical research team and help push the boundaries of scientific knowledge at a national and international level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The following experiences are essential:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">Master of Science in Computer Science and/or Applied Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">Programming in C++, C# or Matlab.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any of the following are desirable:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">Strong mathematical and programming skills;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">Multi-threaded programming; GPU programming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For information please send an email to <a href="mailto:antcrim@microsoft.com">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">antcrim@microsoft.com</span></b></a> with the text “PhD studentship” in the subject line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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