Imaging Systems Laboratory  —  Opportunities

Admission to the 2012–13 academic year has been finalized. Currently all spaces have been taken up.

We plan to recruit one graduate student in the 2013–14 academic year. Both Master and PhD applicants are welcome. International students are particularly invited to apply.

The admitted student will be given full scholarship, with stipend sufficient for living expenses and tuition. They can also participate in the competitive Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, where the selected fellows will receive approximately USD 2,600 per month in addition to travel support. (Note that the deadline for this scheme is likely earlier than normal admission, around early December.) If you can get into this competitive scheme, I am currently working out the arrangements so that (provided you are interested) you can spend up to a year as a visiting scholar at either Stanford University or MIT during your PhD study.

The research work will center on computational imaging, particularly image reconstruction and synthesis. Currently we have work in semiconductor manufacturing (optical lithography) and optical imaging (digital holography and optical coherence tomography), but may extend to related areas such as computational photography. You can check the research work of the group at http://www.eee.hku.hk/isl.

To apply, you need to have a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering, or equivalent (such as mathematics), by August 2013. A Master degree would be a plus for PhD applicants. You should apply directly to the University through the Graduate School, but if you are interested in working in the above areas, you should put my name as the proposed supervisor and computational imaging as the proposed study area, and I will consider your applications further.

If you have specific questions regarding the openings, you can email Dr Edmund Lam, but note that:

• Do not ask me whether I am interested in you (because you have such-and-such background), or your chance of admission.

• If you believe you are the one I should admit, convince me by following the above guideline and writing an attractive research statement relevant to my research (you can read my group’s publications for inspirations) in your application.

• If you can get the information from online resources (such as from the Graduate School website), you are giving me a strong negative impression that you don’t even know how to find information, and that speaks very badly your research capability.

• All email correspondence should bear “Graduate Student Openings 2013–14” as the subject line so I know it’s not a computer-generated mass email.

Collaboration is being developed with Johns Hopkins University Division of Medical Imaging Physics for a joint supervision of a postgraduate student in the area of computed tomography (CT) imaging. We have in mind an MPhil student registered at HKU to spend a part (up to a year) of his or her study at Johns Hopkins to gain the benefit of both engineering and medicine. Further study at either HKU or Johns Hopkins is possible with good work during the MPhil study. Interested candidates should email Dr Lam with “Special Graduate Student Opening” in the subject line.

Application is invited for:

• one post-doc position in image synthesis for optical lithography, and

• one post-doc position in computational imaging and/or digital holography.

The candidate should have a PhD in electrical and electronic engineering, or equivalent (such as mathematics and physics), and should have experience in optical system modeling and solving computational problems for imaging.

Qualified candidates please email Dr Edmund Lam, and put in “Post-doc Opening 2012–13” as the subject line. Appointment may be made for up to three years, and renewable upon satisfactory performance. Remuneration will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

We have a few small research projects which are suitable for undergraduates.

• Analysis of Biomedical Imaging data. Matlab skills desired.

• You can come with your own ideas and we can discuss them.
  
  

Those interested please email Dr Edmund Lam, and put in “Undergraduate Research Opportunities 2012” as the subject line.