Title: Knowledge extraction from the WWW for Biology Research

Working area: Computer Science and Bioinformatics

Summary:

We communicate about the possibility of a post-doc position in the areas of complex networks and pattern recognition, with applications to knowledge extraction from the WWW.

As this research will be performed in collaborative fashion between the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics-USP (Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil) and the Institute of Physics at Sao Carlos-USP (Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil), it is expected that the post-doc investigator will be willing to travel between those two places in a regular fashion (about 230Km).  The opportunity will be developed in the context of a FAPESP

Thematic Project
(http://www.vision.ime.usp.br/~cesar/projects/tematico04/). It is expected that the interested candidates have background in programming, graph theory and multivariate statistics.

The idea behind the project is to develop a methodology and software services to support biologists to extract and organize meaningful knowledge from large non-structured databases such as the WWW.

Thegeneral foreseen framework is to use some standard query engine such as Google to collect an initial (potentially large) multimedia database (html, pdfs, images, videos, etc) in an exploratory way.

The collected material should then be organized by using knowledge extraction tools from non-structured data, including text-mining, computer vision and pattern recognition tools.

The system should provide an output material that summarizes the collected data, including user-friendly visualization tools. The system should explore open-source softwares and libraries as much as possible. Multidisciplinary collaboration with biologists will be carried out during the project development.


The postdoctoral program should last two years. The application deadline is July 30, 2009. The documents required are: Cover letter, CV, list of publications, summary of the doctoral thesis and two letters of recommendation. Documents will be attached, by email to:

Roberto M. Cesar Jr.: roberto.cesar@vision.ime.usp.br
Subject: Post-doc application: structural pattern recognition

Any questions about this opportunity, please contact the coordinator in the email above.

Keywords: Computer vision, Pattern Recognition, From data to knowledge, WWW, Complex networks