We offer a 4-year full-time PhD research position in the field of Adaptive Hypermedia and User Modeling at the department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
The candidate will be enrolled in FP7 research project EURECA: Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care that studies linkage of healthcare information residing in electronic health record systems with information in clinical research information systems, such as clinical trials.
The Dutch company Stoneroos BV is teaming up with TU/e to contribute to the semantic interoperability and data mining research aspects in this project in order to design a personalized information source for patients (and patient groups). Stoneroos is an innovative company, sprouted from the TV-domain, which focuses on products like iTV applications, second screen apps, metadata enrichment, etc., bringing cutting-edge technologies like semantic Web technology in the area of personalization to the real world, resulting e.g. in the iFanzy personalized TV recommender system. TU/e has guided that research in the past and has extensive experience in data mining and personalization.
RESEARCH PROJECT AND TASK DESCRIPTION
In the EURECA project 18 partners from 8 countries work together to offer better information to both patients and specialists, using many ICT techniques such as information system architecture, semantic interoperability, data mining and knowledge discovery.
The successful candidate will focus on a set of tasks aiming to integrate state-of-the-art and yet to be invented techniques in personalization, user modeling, semantic interoperability and data-driven intelligence for developing personalized/adaptive information services for different groups of patients and medical professionals.
It is expected that the PhD candidate will be involved in the complete R&D cycles including theory/framework building, implementation of the software prototypes, experimentation with real data and evaluations/user studies.
PhD researcher position at Eindhoven University of Technology and Stoneroos BV
