Searching for an answer in incomplete forensic image-space

HiLA is a Graduate Research Industry Partnership (GRIP) that has been established to allow Monash University and its Industry partners to collaborate on common research objectives.
https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/partnerships/grip
With the support of Monash’ partners, HiLA PhD scholarships are provided with significant benefits beyond other scholarships on offer. These benefits include:

A fully funded PhD scholarship with Monash University that is available for domestic (Australian) and international students. The 3 year award includes all course fees and a $30,000 AUD per year tax-free stipend;
An internship with the Industry partner - where PhD candidates will spend a portion of their candidature located on site and being supported by the partner;
Access to real world problems supported by real world data;
Where the industry partner is located overseas or interstate, travel and accommodation (when working on site with the partner);
Travel and incidental support for conferences;
Enrollment in the HiLA professional development program;

This scholarship will commence semester 1, 2020.

SUPERVISION:
The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Matthew Dimmock from Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and Dr Xiaojun Chang from the Faculty of Information Technology.

PROJECT DETAILS:
The specific project centres around the following research opportunity:

The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) is Australia’s largest multi-disciplinary centre for forensic medical and scientific services. They have databases with rich data sets however they have limited tools for extracting targeted data due to the unstructured nature of the data and lack of labelled images within the database. This research project will investigate how to use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to audit and supplement the search capabilities of the VIFMs forensic databases to match image queries from pathologists, anthropologists and medico-legal professionals. There will be a particular focus on searching both text based and image based data based in order to provide more flexibility and better results for user search queries.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Candidates must fill out the online to Request to Apply form, which can be found at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUiAswykQg43s8qIoLfq1eKfiGCZrgnkeoT7IQXOlhdJ8TIg/viewform

Please make sure you indicate that the PhD Topic is “Searching for an answer in incomplete forensic image-space”;

In addition to filling out the form, a copy of your academic transcripts, CV and English proficiency should be emailed to [Email Address Removed].

Applicants must possess a Bachelor’s or equivalent degree with first-class Honours, and/or a distinction in a research Masters degree with relevant experience (e.g., data analysis, artificial intelligence, social informatics, psychology, human-computer interaction or data visualisation). Review of applications will begin immediately and short-listed candidates will be contacted for more information and invited to interview. The successful candidate will be invited to apply to Monash with the deadline for applications being the 5th of Jan 2020.

International students that can demonstrate English proficiency are encouraged to apply.

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Data analysis
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