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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956">Volumes 1/2009  4/2012 published</a> (<a href="http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-0-1500-1237603-0&amp;cm_mmc=AD-_-Journal-_-BIO13950_V1-_-0">Complementary Access to Most Downloaded Articles!</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Call for Papers: Special Issue: <a href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CogComp-Special-Issue-cfp-1-Vass-rev-Amir.doc?SGWID=0-0-45-1326237-p173836203">Celebrating the legacy of the late Professor John G Taylor</a> (founding Advisory Board Chair, Cognitive Computation) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Program co-Chair for BICS 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> - Call for Papers: <a href="http://bics2012.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/">BICS 2012 and ISNN 2012, Shenyang, China, 2012</a></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Invited Speaker at ICONIP 2012 - Call for Papers: <a href="http://www.iconip2012.org/">19<sup>th</sup> ICONIP 2012, Qatar, 2012</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Publicity Committee member for IEEE SSCI 2013 - Call for Papers: <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/index.html">IEEE SSCI 2013</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Associate Editor: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><a href="http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tnn/">IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks</a></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Ranked seventh top journal in the world (in its field)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red'>NEW: Founding Editor of Springer Book Series: </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/10374">Springer Briefs on Cognitive Computation</a></span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red'>  launched in 2012 - Submissions welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Major Research Responsibilities:<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Founding Head, Cognitive Signal Image Processing Research (<a href="http://cosipra.cs.stir.ac.uk/">COSIPRA</a>) Laboratory (listed in <a href="http://main.csregistry.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=4491&amp;show=view&amp;reloff=10&amp;cant=213">Complex Systems Registry</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Media Coverage</span></i></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> of Lab s research: <a href="UK-Sunday-Express-Newspaper-2011.pdf">UK Sunday Express Newspaper</a><span class=GramE>,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span><a href="http://www.stirlingobserver.co.uk/stirling-news/local-news-stirling/news-stirling/2012/03/02/uni-study-shows-rural-over-50s-missing-out-51226-30440933/">Stirling Observer</a>, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size: 11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Current/Recent Grants / PhD/Postdoctoral Vacancies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Lead Principal Investigator</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> for new (~£360k) </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:country-region><span><ns0:place><span><span style='color:black'>UK</span></ns0:place></span></ns0:country-region></span><span style='color:black'> <a href="http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I009310/1">EPSRC</a> Grant (2011-2013) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>For a 3-year <u>Post-doctoral Research Fellowship</u> in:  Cognitive Control of Autonomous Systems <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Co-funded by industry (<a href="http://www.isc-ltd.com/">ISC Ltd.</a> and <a href="http://www.scisys.co.uk/"><span class=SpellE>SciSys</span> Ltd.)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>(<span class=GramE>in</span> collaboration with the Project Co-Investigator: <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/kevin-gurney">Prof. Kevin Gurney</a>, Computational Neuroscientist, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:place><span><ns0:placetype><span><span style='color:black'>University</span></ns0:placetype></span><span style='color:black'> of </span><ns0:placename><span><span style='color:black'>Sheffield</span></ns0:placename></span></ns0:place></span><span style='color:black'>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Post-doc Research Fellow Position now </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>FILLED</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>! Project website <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/cogcobras/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>(Potential impact of this ambitious project has already been highlighted in the media: </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><a href="UK-Sunday-Express-Newspaper-2011.pdf">UK Sunday Express Newspaper</a><span class=GramE> ,</span></span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language: EN-US'> <a href="http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1sqtp/StirlingMinds/resources/content/14.swf">Stirling Minds</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language: EN-US'>This grant has led to three follow-on grants from the <a href="http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a> for collaborative research with China s top Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (Institute of Automation), Peking, <span class=SpellE>Beihang</span> and Anhui Normal Universities (2012-14).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Part-time/visiting research posts available - E-mail me for details!</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Principal Investigator (PI)</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> for </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:country-region><span><ns0:place><span><span style='color:black'>UK</span></ns0:place></span></ns0:country-region></span><span style='color:black'> <a href="http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm">EPSRC</a> Grant (2010-2013)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>In collaboration with <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</a> (</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:country-region><span><u><span style='color:black'>USA</span></u></ns0:country-region></span><u><span style='color:black'>), <a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/">Harvard Medical School</a> (</span></u><ns0:country-region><span><u><span style='color:black'>USA</span></u></ns0:country-region></span><u><span style='color:black'>) </span></u><span style='color:black'>&amp; Co-funded by <a href="http://www.sitekit.net/"><span class=SpellE>SiteKit</span> Solutions Ltd.</a> (</span><ns0:place><span><ns0:country-region><span><span style='color:black'>Scotland</span></ns0:country-region></span></ns0:place></span><span style='color:black'>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Project Title</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>: Intelligent e-Health Expert System for Primary Care with a prototype for Cardiovascular Preventative Care<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>PhD Researcher Position now </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>FILLED</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Recently completed projects:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>UK <a href="http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm">EPSRC</a><span class=GramE><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>and</span> industry funded grant (2009-12)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>In collaboration with <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</a> (</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:city><span><u><span style='color:black'>Boston</span></u></ns0:city></span><u><span style='color:black'>, </span></u><ns0:country-region><span><u><span style='color:black'>USA</span></u></ns0:country-region></span><u><span style='color:black'>) </span></u><span style='color:black'>&amp; Co-funded by <a href="http://www.sitekit.net/"><span class=SpellE>SiteKit</span> Solutions Ltd.</a> (</span><ns0:place><span><ns0:country-region><span><span style='color:black'>Scotland</span></ns0:country-region></span></ns0:place></span><span style='color:black'>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> Application of Common Sense Computing for Enabling Next-generation Semantic Web Applications Project Researcher: Erik Cambria (</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>PhD awarded</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> 6<sup>th</sup> Feb 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Publications List <a href="http://sentic.net/publications/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>PhD project</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>: Cognitive Agent based Modeling and Simulation, (<span class=SpellE>Muaz</span> <span class=SpellE>Niazi</span>), PhD awarded, July 2011  Publications list <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~man/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size: 11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Stirling PI, Vice-Chair and Grant Holder</span></u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size: 11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>: European Science Foundation (</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:stockticker><span><span style='color:black'>ESF</span></ns0:stockticker></span><span style='color: black'>) funded Research Network (<a href="http://cost2102.cs.stir.ac.uk/">COST2102</a>) (2007-11)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>UK &amp; Republic of </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><ns0:country-region><span><ns0:place><span><span style='color:red'>Ireland</span></ns0:place></span></ns0:country-region></span><span style='color:red'> IEEE IAS Chapter Homepage<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><a href="http://ieee-ukri.org/industry-applications-ia034/?postTabs=3">IEEE UK &amp; RI Chapter: Industry Applications Society</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Contact Address</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>Dr Amir Hussain</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Reader in Computing Science<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation journal (Springer, <ns0:country-region><span><ns0:place><span>USA</ns0:place></span></ns0:country-region></span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>University Director for <ns0:city><span><ns0:place><span>Muscat</ns0:place></span></ns0:city></span> Franchise<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Chair UK &amp; RI IEEE Industry Applications Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>Computing Science &amp; Mathematics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>, School of Natural Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA&nbsp;&nbsp; SCOTLAND, UK</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Tel / Fax: (++44) 1786 - 476437 / 464551 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>E-mail:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:IT'>ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk<span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/">http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Prospective PhD applicants</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>I am interested in discussing ANY interdisciplinary research area related to brain/biologically-inspired/cognitive signal, image processing and agent based modeling, analysis, simulation and control technologies (both software and hardware-based) and complex real world problem solving applications of these, ranging <span class=GramE>from ,</span> e.g. next generation: (e)healthcare, semantic web, data/text/sentiment and opinion mining, cognitive / smart sensors, peer-to-peer communication networks, homes, automotive/transportation systems, assistive technology (including next generation hearing aids/assistive listening devices), multi-modal human computer interaction, autonomous surface/land/sea/air /space vehicles, etc. to  rational <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>(i.e. fairer!) economic and social systems etc. Also feel free to propose your own idea, for example, how cognitive computational technology could be developed/applied to tackle growing complexity and solve challenging problems in any social, economic, financial, engineering, medical/ healthcare, manufacturing, service and entertainment industry/<span class=SpellE>domain<span class=GramE>..</span>Some</span> possible projects are listed are <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/PhD-projects.html">here</a>. There are usually funding opportunities available.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>