The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, seeks a PhD student in Autonomous Vehicle Technologies.
The position is fully funded, full time, starting September 2020.

Salary: ��16,536 per year, increasing by inflation each year.��
Deadline: April 17 2020.��

The student will lead, in collaboration with a research fellow in AI for autonomous driving, the Oxford Brookes Racing - Autonomous team, comprising some 60 undergraduate students, in its attempt to reach the top spot among UK universities by 2021/22, after achieving 3rd place in 2019:��

https://www.imeche.org/events/formula-student/team-information/fs-ai����

Oxford Brookes University is a world leading team in Formula Student competitions, and aims to create a successful team for electrical and autonomous racing competitions. The project will be supported by our world leading experts in racing engine design, aerodynamics, cognitive robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision.��

The student will closely work with the Autonomous Driving group and the Visual Artificial Intelligence Laboratory led by Prof Fabio Cuzzolin,

http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/FabioCuzzolin/������

a thriving research unit projected to comprise 25+ members in 2020 and one of the top research groups in the world in deep learning for action and event detection.

A new dataset in Road Event and Activity Detection (RoAD), the first in the world of its kind, is in the process of being released as a Challenge to major robotics (ICRA, IROS) and computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV):

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11332

You are encouraged to contact Prof Cuzzolin at fabio.cuzzolin@brookes.ac.uk for more information and informal feedback on your application.

To formally apply, please follow the instructions provided here:��

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYX342/3-year-full-time-funded-phd-studentship-autonomous-vehicle-technologies��