Job opening: Research Programmer
MIT House_n Research Group
Research Programmer, to (1) participate on a team developing a portable in-home sensor kit that can gather data about behavior and activity patterns for research purposes, (2) write web-based software to collect and summarize data gathered from the kit, (3) recruit participants to live with the technology for several months at a time, (4) coordinate deployment of the technology and data gathering throughout multi-month studies, (5) develop software to simplify storage, backup, and searching of the data, in C# and/or Java, (6) oversee undergraduate students who will annotate collected data, (7) conduct and summarize pre and post-study interviews with participants, (8) develop software to allow distributed web-based annotation of data sets consisting of terabytes of audio and image data, and (9) provide documentation to the research community to simplify use of the data sets, software, and annotation system. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to pursue independ
ent research that uses the home sensor system and behavior data sets. The appointment will be renewable for up to 3 years contingent upon funding and performance.
Requirements: Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science or related field, expert competency in Java and/or C#, and experience developing web-based client/server applications. Candidate should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact with study participants. Desirable: publication record, experience working with research participants, experience working in health technology, audio or visual processing, and/or pattern recognition, and experience with mobile phone programming, sensors, and wireless devices.
For a project summary and more information on applying see:
http://www.mit.edu/~intille/ResearchPositionNSF.html
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