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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Cas Hill [mailto:hillassociates@optonline.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 18, 2011 6:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> turk@cs.ucsb.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> UTRC Research Opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Dr. Turk:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I hope you can help me. I have been retained to help <b>United Technologies Research Center</b> recruit a <b><u>Principal Engineer/Scientist-Perception</u></b> and a <b><u>Principal Scientist Computer Vision and Video Surveillance</u></b>. Both positions are described below and require candidates to be either a U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents. Interested and qualified candidates should contact me for further information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Principal Engineer/Scientist-Perception<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Key skills include target detection, video for navigation, object tracking/recognition from image and range data, LIDAR, Range Sensing, Visual Navigation, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Sensor Fusion,</span></u><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The candidate must be able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, multinational team environment focused on innovation and be able to partner with leading, worldwide institutions (university, government agencies, national labs, and professional organizations) to meet organizational objectives. The candidate will have exceptional communication skills, capable of interacting with UTRC senior management while also being able to mentor junior members of the technical staff. The candidate must be able to provide timely, accurate and detailed reports and presentations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Additionally, the successful candidate will be expected to: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Act as principal investigator, leading multidisciplinary teams focused on creative, integrated solutions for business and technical challenges in simultaneous localization and mapping, video for navigation, multimodal sensor data fusion, and decision making processes from the navigational information.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Provide technical leadership and direction in the areas of detection, classification and tracking of multiple agents in an urban environment, as well as real-time autonomous trajectory re-planning. Additionally, there is the expectation to serve as a technical resource to others, including being a member of technical review boards. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Identify and champion promising technical innovations for UTC Business units through knowledge of the state-of-the-art in fields related to perception for navigation, the establishment of partnerships with universities, national labs, and government / military institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Source and evaluate new technology for UTC; create and leverage internal and external partnerships, especially with government agencies; create opportunities through the acquisition of contract awards.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Foster development of creativity and technical excellence in others. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Author technical papers; be active in internal and external networks.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Preferred: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, plus 5-8 years of industrial or academic experience after completion of the Ph.D. in disciplines as outlined above. M.S. with 8-10 years industrial experience may be considered. - Expert knowledge and a minimum of 5-8 years of industrial or academic experience (post M.S<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams to successfully achieve desired technical outcomes within time and budget constraints.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Demonstrated ability to write proposals and win external funding/contracts/grants.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Record of technical contributions, including patents and publications in refereed technical journals.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Proven success in innovative, strategic and technical thinking; willingness to champion and challenge new technical ideas; and experience in applying work to real-world applications.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Excellent communication and leadership skills; innovative strategic and technical thinker; high energy; team player.</span> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Principal Scientist-Computer Vision & Video Surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Key skills include Video Analytics, Object Detection and Tracking, Object Recognition, Activity & Event Recognition, Content Based Indexing & Retrieval or Computational Photography</span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Additionally, the successful candidate will be expected to: <br><br>1. Provide technical leadership and direction and serve as a technical resource to others, including being a member of technical review boards. <br>2. Act as principal investigator, leading multidisciplinary teams developing integrated solutions for UTC business units and focusing on creative solutions to technical challenges in computer vision and video surveillance. <br>3. Identify and champion promising technical innovations for UTC business units through the establishment of partnerships with university, national labs and other world-class institutions. <br>4. Create opportunities through the acquisition of contract awards, source and evaluate new technology for UTC; create and leverage internal and external partnerships<br>5. Foster development of creativity and technical excellence in others. <br>6. Author technical papers; be active in relevant technical communities. <br><br><b>Education/Experience Required</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Preferred: Ph.D. in Computer Science</span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, plus 10 years of industrial or academic experience after completion of the Ph.D. in disciplines in the Key Skills listed above. <br><br>- Expert knowledge and a minimum of 10 years of industrial or academic experience (post M.S.) in at least three of the following fields: object detection and tracking, object recognition, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> activity and event recognition, content-based indexing and retrieval, computational photography. <br>- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams to successfully achieve desired technical outcomes within time and budget constraints. <br>- Demonstrated ability to write proposals and win external funding/contracts/grants. <br>- Record of technical contributions, including patents and publications in refereed technical journals and major conferences in computer vision <br>- Proven success in innovative strategic and technical thinking, willingness to champion and challenge new technical ideas, and experience in applying work to real-world applications. <br>- Excellent communication and leadership skills; innovative strategic and technical thinker; high energy; team player. <br>- Demonstrated team leadership in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural industrial applications is a plus. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sincerely,</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cas Hill</span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><br><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hill Associates LLC</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>183 Bayberry Road</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fairfield, CT 06825</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Office: 203-374-6838 </span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cell: 203-522-2218</span></strong><br></span><strong><a href="mailto:hillassociates@optonline.net"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>hillassociates@optonline.net</span></a></strong></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>