• Convenient Central City Location in Melbourne, One of The Worlds Most Liveable Cities
• Fixed Term Contract, 2 Years
• Competitive Salary + 17% Super + Flexible Working Arrangements Available

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to work within the research team from RMIT, in collaboration with University of Cambridge and University of Waterloo, on the Australian Research Council Discovery project "Multi-resolution Situation Recognition for Urban-Aware Smart Assistant". This project will develop a new situation recognition framework to recognise and anticipate unforeseen emerging situations, such as schedule changes, incidents, and disruptions.

Your Responsibilities

You will collect and analyse behavioural data and investigate models of user behaviours and behaviour deviations. This includes experiments with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and investigation into new theoretical and practical approaches to achieve highly accurate behaviour recognition. You will also develop a prototype of context-aware suggestions/notification based on users heterogeneous contexts.

Skills & Experience

You will have:

• Emerging track record for high quality research outputs which will contribute to existing Discipline and School research areas
• Demonstrated experience in the following areas: machine learning, time-series, spatio-temporal data mining.
• Relevant publications in high quality Q1 peer reviewed journals and track records in A/A* conferences ranked by CORE in AI and machine learning, ubiquitous / pervasive / mobile computing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills appropriate for interacting with higher degree by research candidates, staff and industry
• Hold a PhD in Computer Science.

Benefits

RMIT supports you with a range of financial and non-financial benefits. We recognise the diverse needs of our staff, so regardless of your situation, the range of staff benefits on offer provides something for everyone.

• Additional annual leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Be part of RMITs academic life and attend various events and workshops
• Access to RMIT staff gym
• 2% salary increase each year and annual leave loading of 17.5%
• MYKI pass discount

About RMIT

RMIT is a multi-sector university of technology, design and enterprise with more than 91,000 students and 11,000 staff globally. RMIT offers postgraduate, undergraduate, vocational education and online programs to provide students with a variety of work-relevant pathways.

The School of Science is one of RMIT's top-performing research schools, we deliver research that addresses the 'real life questions' essential to Australia's innovation agenda. We attract esteemed experts and researchers from around the world and has strong partnerships with industry and international collaborators.

To Apply

For a confidential discussion, please contact Flora Salimat on +61 3 9925 2325, or for a position description visit yourcareer.rmit.edu.au and search using job reference number 563390.

Applications close on Monday 24th June 2019.

Applicants must separately address the key selection criteria as outlined in the Position Description.

This role will require satisfactory confirmation of a Working with Children Check.

RMIT is an equal opportunity employer committed to being a child safe organisation. We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.