PHD POSITIONS (Recommender Systems, Core Database Technologies, and Medical Data Warehousing and Data Mining)
The Database and Information Systems Centre (DIS) at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is looking for PhD students for projects in the area of Recommender Systems, Database Systems, and Decision Support Systems. The fellowships are starting from January 2009.
1 PHD STUDENT IN THE FIELD OF RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS: Recommender systems are intelligent applications aimed at assisting users in a decision-making process when users don't have sufficient personal experience to choose one item amongst a potentially overwhelming set of alternative products or services. DIS is active in a number of research projects in this area and in particular on: learning conversational policies for recommender systems, group recommender systems, cross-domain recommendations, learning user models from interaction data, mobile and context-aware recommender systems.
1 PHD STUDENT IN THE FIELD OF CORE DATABASE TECHNOLOIGIES: The needs of mission critical applications dealing with large amounts of real- world data, such as intelligent transportation systems or eHealth systems, are driving the continuous development of advanced database technology. In the DIS research center we investigate fundamental research issues for the next generation of large high performance database and decision support systems. Among others we develop new solutions to approximately match XML data, to aggregate and cluster multi-dimensional data, and to manage temporal and spatial data.
1 PHD STUDENT IN MEDICAL DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING: This position is in the context of a four-years project, called MEDAN (MEdical Data warehousing and Analysis), which aims to conduct basic and applied research in the area of data warehousing and intelligent data analysis for health care and medical applications. Specific research topics include temporal medical data analysis (e.g., different forms of temporal aggregation or temporal pattern recognition) and visual health care analytics (e.g., visual analysis methods based on scatter plots and density surfaces).
Interested candidates please send informal inquiries, your CV (including publication list) and links to selected papers to:
- Francesco Ricci (fricci@unibz.it) for Recommender Systems
- Michael Boehlen (boehlen@inf.unibz.it) for Core Database Technologies
- Johann Gamper (gamper@inf.unibz.it) for Medical Data Warehousing and
Data Mining
The deadline for the formal application is October 20, 2008.
For more information,
DIS at FUB: http://www.inf.unibz.it/dis/
Recommender Systems: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~ricci
PhD admission: http://www.unibz.it/inf/phdcs/