1 Research Grant Announcement (M/F)

Call open for applications for a research grant within the framework of project THEIA: Automated Perception Driving, with reference POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047264, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (COMPETE 2020), under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement, under the following conditions:

Scientific Area:  Computer Vision

Admission requirements: Candidates who meet the one of the following requirement may apply for this grant:

Requirement 1:

-  To be a student enrolled in a master degree or in an integrated master or in an integrated master's program who has already completed the 180 credits corresponding to the first six curricular semesters in the areas of Electrotechnical engineering, Informatics or similar, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.

Or

Requirement 2:

- To be enrolled in a non-academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.

Note: In the case of masters who are enrolled in non-academic degree courses, the scholarship can only be awarded to those who do not exceed, with this scholarship contract, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of two years in that typology of the scholarship, followed or interpolated.

 And

- Hold a bachelor degree in Technology, Informatics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or similar.

 If the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, it must comply with the provisions of the Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of august 16th, and any formalities established there must be fulfilled until the time of signing the contract. 

Workplan: Contribute to the development of information fusion solutions for autonomous vehicles (contributing to improve the sensory capabilities of the autonomous vehicle, even in complex and unpredictable driving environments), with a focus on efficient deep learning through compression and multitask models.

Profile 302: Tasks SP2.A7.T4; SP2.A9.T1; SP2.A10.T1; SP2.A11.T1; SP2.A12.T1

These tasks can be adjusted depending on the feasibility of the project. All changes that imply the assignment to other tasks will be subject to a request for approval to AICEP.

Legislation and regulations: Law Nº. 40/2004, of 18th August, in its current wording (Statutes of Scientific Research Fellow) and Regulation of Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., in force (https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/regulamento.phtml.pt) and Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto, in force.

Work place: The work will be developed at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the scientific supervision of Professor Jaime dos Santos Cardoso.

Grant duration: Initial duration of 3 months, with the predicted starting date in February 2023, on an exclusive basis, eventually renewable but never exceeding the project duration.

If the recruitment procedures do not allow the grant to last for a minimum of 3 consecutive months, in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 6 of the Research Grant Regulations of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. , the scholarship will not be awarded.

The eventual renewal of the scholarship will be carried out as determined in article 6 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.

Stipend: The grant stipend amounts to 875,98€ according to the table of values of the grants awarded directly by FCT, I.P. in the Country (https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores). 

The payment will be made by bank transfer.

Selection procedure:

The curriculum of the candidates will be evaluated based on the merit of the candidate and the following factors will be assessed:

a) Academic training (Bachelor in Electrical and Computers engineering, Technology, Informatics, Data Science - 5 points; in other areas – 2 points)

b) Experience in the field of computer vision and/or deep learning (up to 1 year - maximum 2 points, over 1 year - maximum 5 points).

c) Solid programming skills, preferably in Python (maximum of 5 points)

d) Mastery of the English language, to be assessed through a motivation letter (maximum of 5 points)

The four best-ranked candidates in the curriculum evaluation will be selected for interview (maximum 5 points).  In the interview topics related with the work plan, experience, motivation and the candidate’s CV will be discussed with the invited candidates.

Selection Jury:

President:  Professor Jaime dos Santos Cardoso

Effective member:  Professor Luís Filipe Pinto de Almeida Teixeira

Effective member:  Professor Andry Maykol Gomes Pinto

Supplementary member:  Professor Aníbal Castilho Coimbra de Matos

Advertisement of final decision: The results of the evaluation will be released to the candidates

by email to the email address indicated in the application process.

Deadline for applications and form of presentation of the applications:

The call is open from 10/01/2023 to 23/01/2023 (until 23h59m, GMT time).

Applications must be formalized by email to jaime.cardoso@fe.up.pt  and to recursoshumanos@fe.up.pt , clearly stating the reference FEUP-THEIA- PS2-WP1-BolsaLic_2and including the following pdf documents: Motivation letter, Copy of certificates evidencing academic degree, detailed Curriculum Vitae; Declaration on honor that the candidate fulfills the requirement contained in article 6 of the Regulation for Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (model below, for student enrolled in a non-academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units) and other documents considered relevant by the applicant.

Declaration on honour

I, (identification of the scholarship holder), holder of the Citizen Card / Visa / Residence Permit no. valid until _____, declare under honour, to be in the conditions of no. 5 of article 6º of the Research Grants from FCT, IP - Regulation No. 950/2019, of 16 December.

Oporto, __/__/__

Signature

_________________

(scholarship holder)