Vision and Security Technologies Lab Compensation
Plan
Last Revised Dec 2007.
Note each position states if it is currently closed. Only a few positions have opening, others are filled but listed so as to conform to campus policy. You can always send email to ask. I can almost always find a job for students with financial aid Work-study funding.
More details on particular projects may be found on the VAST Lab Web Site
Full time Postdoc/Engineering position:
Level-2 and Level 3 Fusion using Image Understanding of Graphical
User Interfaces (filled)
Graduate Research Assistant (Multiple Openings)
Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer (open)
Embedded Systems Engineer (2 filled, 1 open)
Software Lab Assistant (Frequent openings)
Junior Lab Assistant (Frequent always openings)
Security Software Developer (filled)
Vision Programmer (Frequent opeings )
Linux System Administrator/programmer(2 filled)
Work Study Web Support position (always an opening)
BI Team Level 3
BI Team Level 4
BI Team Level 5
Full time Postdoc/Engineering position:
Level-2 and Level 3 Fusion using Image Understanding of Graphical
User Interfaces
Vision and Security Technology (VAST) Laboratory
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
A Ph.D. is preferred but an MS with significant experience will be considered.
Description (currently filled):
Working with Dr. Terrance Boult this project will develop solutions
for level 2 fusion and level 3 fusion in a joint project with Siemens
Corporate Research and UCLA. The project will be focused on using
Image Understanding techniques on the Graphical User Interfaces as the
primary fusion technique. It will also entail systems level
integration and interaction with our partners.
There will be some travel to support field experiments. The
Postdoc/engineer will have some oversight responsibilities with and
work extensively with the doctoral and masters students on the
project. In addition to this project the PostDoc/Engineer will be
involved with other project in the lab, and will be provided time to
pursue some of their own research topics.
The ideal candidate will be interested in and have experience both in
image understanding techniques, graphical interfaces, object
recognition motion detection and tracking, with significant systems
experience systems. Developments will be in C++ and Java (on both
Linux and Win32). Significant systems experience in C++
required. OpenCV experience desired.
International canidates with strong english skills will be
considered. This is a 24-36 month position
Interested candidates should Contact Dr. Boult and send a resume and
information to tboult at vast.uccs.edu. The position is now filled.
Job Title: Graduate Research Assistant
Description (Three positions filled, two additional openings) :
This position is for a full-time Ph.D. student (or possibly MS) student to
work on research in the VAST lab. Current funding is for vision and security
related work. This position is outside of the "hourly" category and is
listed here only so qualified students looking for work might know to contact
Dr. Boult about it. Student will need significant experience in Linux/Unix
and some experience in Windows. The student should have completed a course
in vision or graphics and/or networking security. The position would
include a monthly stipend and may cover some or all of tuition. Multiple
positions may be offered.
Current GRA projects:
Real-time Tracking(1 slot open, 2 filled): Candidates must have good software skills,
good skills and some knowledge of computer vision or math. Experience in C++
required, real-time programming preferred. Linux and windows experience
expected. Ph.D. Student in CS or EE preferred, MS acceptable.
GUI and Machine Learning: Candidates must have good software skills,
knowledge of GUI development and Machine learning, and some knowledge
of computer vision or math. Experience in C++ required, real-time
programming preferred. Linux and windows experience expected.
Ph.D. Student in CS or EE preferred, MS acceptable.
Distributed Steganalysis development. Working with a local
company (Phase II STTR) the GRA will develop a distributed system for
Steganalysis using SOAP-based protocols. The multi-platform algorithm
will wrap other tools, though development of custom steganalysis tools
may be explored it is not required that the student have any
experience in steganalysis. The student must have significant
software experience.
Embedded systems development (closed): Candidates must have both good
software and embedded systems. Linux experience required and some familiarly with Verilog and
FPGA development desired.
Optical Design Software(filled): Candidates must have both good software/systems
skills and reasonable Math skills. Some knowledge of optics desired. The
project will use integrate some existing MATLAB with an existing optical
design package (probably ZeMAX) and new custom C++/DCOM developments to
address the overall research issues.
Interactive intelligent web support system(filled): Building on Cocoon, this
project will support development of a web-enabled intelligent system that
will custom render self-help material for trauma patients. Funded by NISSC
this pays a stipend only.
Network QoS architectures for surveillance(filled): Canddates must be very
comfortable with network programming in C++/Java, and XML. A NISSC funded
project is pays only a partial stipend.
Job Title: Embedded Systems Engineer
Description (two positions filled) :
This position is for a student, expected to be a graduate student. full-time
Ph.D. student (or possibly MS) student to work on research in the VAST lab.
This hourly position is expected to be a stepping stone to one of salaried
graduate student positions (which include some tuition support.) This
requires as BS in EE, CS or Computer Engineering. THe project will include
Embedded systems development on smart cameras (with FPGA) or embedded
micro-controllers. Students must know verilog, C++ and basic hardware
debugging including usage of scopes and logic analyzers.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork, all potential
applicants will undergo short (15 min) interview/test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired at somewhere in the Student Assistant level VI,
with exact placement depending on their skills.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
salary step (25 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Promotions:
- The position may be converted to a GRA at any time. No other promotions
are possible.
Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer
Description (currently Filled):
- This position will provide programming and system support for the VAST Lab.
- Student will need extensive experience with Linux/Unix and Windows,
extensive experience in programming in C/C++. Experiience in confifuring
machines and imaging system experience.
Initial Hiring:
- Must have 1-2 years experience in a Vision or
Image processing Lab is required, with strong references.
- Students will be hired at near the top of level V (maybe at the very top
if sufficient skills). If a Graduate student with the right skill
they may be a straight salarayed GRA (see other positions).
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
salary step (50 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
Job Title: Vision Programmer/Research Assistant
Description (open):
This position will provide programming support for video-based
experiments in the VAST lab.
Student will need significant experience in Linux/Unix and some
experience in Windows. The student should have completed a course in
image processing, computer vision or graphics.
Students will develop real-time vision code run experiments, monitor their progress,
and manipulate the resulting data for storage/plotting/reporting.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork, all potential
applicants will undergo short (15 min) test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired at the minimum of the Student Assistant V job
category.
- Exception: A qualified graduate student may start at level VI.
One 25-75 cents per hour increase will be given
depending on the extent and level of previous related job
experience.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
salary step (25 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
Promotions:
- After 1 year (3 semesters) of work, advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be promoted to the
Student Assistant VI job class. The wage in the new job class
will be the larger of the minimum rate for that category or the
student's previous wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour
increase.
Job Title: Security Software Developer
Description (filled):
- This position will provide programming support for security-based
projects.
- Student will need significant experience in Linux/Unix and
Windows, and must have completed graduate-level courses in Security.
Knowledge of encryption techniques, SSL, digital artifacts is
required. Ideally the student will have completed a course in
image processing, computer vision or graphics.
- Students will develop real-time security software associated with
ongoing lab efforts.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork, all potential
applicants will undergo short (15 min) test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
Students will be hired somewhere in the Student Assistant VI job
category, with salary between $14.00 and $15.00 depending on
experience.
- If not already at the maximum salary student employees may
receive a merit promotion of up to 50 cents after every three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
Promotions:
- This is already at the highest hourly position allowed.
Promotions are to full-time GRA position which may include
tuition support.
Job Title: Software Lab Assistant
Description (Currently 1 position filled, 1-2 more currently open.
Work study preferred): - This position will provide
laboratory support for experiments in the VAST lab.
- Student will
need experience with both Linux/Unix and Windows, and solid knowledge
of programming in C/C++ and/or experience in shell scripting.
(Students will be expected to learn Bash shell scripting to automate
the experimental runs. Students may write small program that
integrate existing tools/libraries. Work Study student lacking
significant programming/scripting skills may still be considered.
- Students will run experiments, monitor their progress,
and manipulate the resulting data for storage/plotting/reporting.
Students may work on
- For 2006/2007 project will include software for
surveillance networks, steganalsysis, some basic "standards based" image file
format libraries, simple geo-spatial display (from existing libraries) and
face/hand image collections and biometric analysis.
- The open position include support for biometrics experiments,
biometric data collection and using program to define ground truth for
biometric experiment.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork, all potential
applicants will undergo short (15 min) test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired at the minimum of the Student Assistant III job
category, if they have Programming skills, Student Assistant
II if not.
- Exception: One 25-75 cents per hour increase will be given
depending on the extent and level of previous related job
experience.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
salary step (25 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance. Students initially hired at
Promotions:
- After 1 year (3 semesters) of work, advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be one level
(maximum to Student Assistant IV job class. The wage in the new job class
will be the larger of the minimum rate for that category or the
student's previous wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour
increase.
Job Title: Junior Software Lab Assistant
Description (Frequent opening, Work study preferred but not required):
- This position will provide low-level laboratory support for experiments in
the VAST lab.
- Student will need experience with using computers and have good attention to detail.
- Knoweldge of Office tools and websearching skills required.
and both Linux/Unix
- Students will be expected to learn and work with various scripting tools scripting to automate the experimental runs.
- Students will be "ground truthing" data using other programs developed in the lab and may manipulate large data sets with existing gools.
- Students will run experiments, monitor their progress,
and manipulate the resulting data for storage/plotting/reporting.
- For 2007/2008 project will include software for
surveillance networks, steganalsysis, some basic "standards based" image file
format libraries, simple geo-spatial display (from existing libraries) and
face/hand image collections and biometric analysis.
Initial Hiring: - After being selected based on their
paperwork, all potential applicants may undergo short (15 min) verbal
test to assess their skills, and so self-taught students, including
Freshman are welcome to apply. No compensation will be provided for
the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired in the range of Student Assistant I to Student Assistant II job category, and if they have Programming skills, possibly at Student Assistant III if not.
- Exception: One 25-75 cents per hour increase will be given
depending on the extent and level of previous related job
experience.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one or two salary step (25 or 50 cents) after they have completed three months of work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one or two salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance. Students initially hired at
Promotions:
- After 1 year (3 semesters) of work, advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be promoted to a
Student Lab Assistant The wage in the new job class will be
the larger of the minimum rate for that category or the
student's previous wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour
increase.
Job Title: Work Study Web Support
Description (currently filled):
- This position will provide support for web page development for
the TRAUMA WEB development project, with some support the CITTI, VAST and
RMTA web sites as well. Job will include converting text to web, finding
images for the site, recording audio, reviewing site for accuracy.
- Student will need experience with both Linux/Unix and Windows, and solid
knowledge of web programming. Some experience with PHP , Perl and shell
scripting required. Graphics design experience is a plus as is DB/SQL
experience.
- Student will also help maintain the various VAST lab related web-sites.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork/resume, the top
applicants will undergo short (15 min) test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired at the middle of the Student Assistant IV job
category.
- Exception: If the student has
sufficient experience the position may start at level V. One 25-75
cents per hour increase will be given depending on the extent and
level of previous related job experience.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
or two salary steps (25-50 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category. At that
review they be moved up to Student
Assistant V job class.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
Promotions:
- After 1 year (3 semesters) of work, advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be promoted to the
Student Assistant V job class. The wage in the new job class
will be the larger of the minimum rate for that category or the
student's previous wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour
increase.
Job Title: Linux Systems Administrator/Programmer
Description (currently Filled):
- This position will provide laboratory support for experiments in the VAST
lab.
- Student will need experience with both Linux/Unix and Windows, and
solid knowledge of programming in C/C++ and/or experience in shell scripting.
(Students will be expected to learn Bash shell scripting to automate the
experimental runs.
- Students will administer our lab Linux boxes (currently 12 servers with
about 3TB of storage), help build/install new machines, run experiments,
monitor their progress, and manipulate the resulting data for
storage/plotting/reporting. If the student skills are sufficient they may
also develop new device drivers for specialized devices. Student will also
help maintain the various VAST lab related web-sites.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork/resume, the top
applicants will undergo short (15 min) test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired at the minimum of the Student Assistant IV job
category.
- Exception: If the student has
sufficient experience the position may start at level V. One 25-75
cents per hour increase will be given depending on the extent and
level of previous related job experience.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
salary step (25 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
Promotions:
- After 1 year (3 semesters) of work, advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be promoted to the
Student Assistant V job class. The wage in the new job class
will be the larger of the minimum rate for that category or the
student's previous wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour
increase.
Full time Postdoc/Engineering position:
Level-2 and Level 3 Fusion using Image Understanding of Graphical
User Interfaces
Vision and Security Technology (VAST) Laboratory
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
A Ph.D. is preferred but an MS with significant experience will be considered.
Description (currently filled):
Working with Dr. Terrance Boult this project will develop solutions
for level 2 fusion and level 3 fusion in a joint project with Siemens
Corporate Research and UCLA. The project will be focused on using
Image Understanding techniques on the Graphical User Interfaces as the
primary fusion technique. It will also entail systems level
integration and interaction with our partners.
There will be some travel to support field experiments. The
Postdoc/engineer will have some oversight responsibilities with and
work extensively with the doctoral and masters students on the
project. In addition to this project the PostDoc/Engineer will be
involved with other project in the lab, and will be provided time to
pursue some of their own research topics.
The ideal candidate will be interested in and have experience both in
image understanding techniques, graphical interfaces, object
recognition motion detection and tracking, with significant systems
experience systems. Developments will be in C++ and Java (on both
Linux and Win32). Significant systems experience in C++
required. OpenCV experience desired.
International canidates with strong english skills will be
considered. This is a 24-36 month position
Interested candidates should Contact Dr. Boult and send a resume and
information to tboult at vast.uccs.edu. The position is now filled.
Job Title: Vision Programmer/Research Assistant
Description (open):
This position will provide programming support for video-based
experiments in the VAST lab.
Student will need significant experience in Linux/Unix and some
experience in Windows. The student should have completed a course in
image processing, computer vision or graphics.
Students will develop real-time vision code run experiments, monitor their progress,
and manipulate the resulting data for storage/plotting/reporting.
Initial Hiring:
- After being selected based on their paperwork, all potential
applicants will undergo short (15 min) test to assess their skills, and so
self-taught students, including Freshman are welcome to apply. No
compensation will be provided for the time taken in testing.
- Students will be hired at the minimum of the Student Assistant V job
category.
- Exception: A qualified graduate student may start at level VI.
One 25-75 cents per hour increase will be given
depending on the extent and level of previous related job
experience.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
salary step (25 cents) after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a given job category.
- Thereafter, contingent upon a satisfactory review, student employees
are eligible for a one salary step (25 cents) per hour increase
after one year and an additional 400 hours worked in a given job
category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
Promotions:
- After 1 year (3 semesters) of work, advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be promoted to the
Student Assistant VI job class. The wage in the new job class
will be the larger of the minimum rate for that category or the
student's previous wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour
increase.
The style of this posting is not indicative of the work or level of formality
of the lab. (Dr. Boult is just following university procedure). The lab will
have a relaxed atmosphere and is very understanding of the complexity of
student schedules.
Job Title: BI Team level 3
Work study preferred but not required. Description: -
This position will provide support for a range of early BI team level requirements from web-based research (part search, competition, market analysis), to supporting report/proposal preparation. Students must have completed ENTP100.
- For 2006/2007 Team project will include a new anti-DUI device and new military tranining systems.
Initial Hiring:
- Selected based on their performance in class, and an interview.
- Students will be hired at the somewhere within the Student Assistant III job
category.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
up to 50 after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a this job category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
Promotions:
- After 6 months of work and advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be advanced to BI
team 4. The wage in the new job class will be the larger of
the minimum rate for that category or the student's previous
wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour increase.
Job Title: BI Team level 4
Work study preferred but not required. Description: -
This position will provide support for a range of mid-level BI team
level requirements from leading on report leading BI3 students in
web-based research, leading on report/proposal preparation and some
basic design/implementation tasks including web-site implementation.
Students must have completed ENTP100 and INOV101.
- Students may also run experiments, monitor their progress,
and manipulate the resulting data for storage/plotting/reporting.
- For 2006/2007 Team project will include a new anti-DUI device and new military tranining systems.
Initial Hiring:
- Selected based on their performance in class, and an interview.
- Students will be hired at the somewhere within the Student Assistant IV job category depending on skills.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
up to 50 after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a this job category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
Promotions:
- After 6 months of work and advancement of necessary skills,
and a satisfactory review, the position may be advanced to BI
team 5. The wage in the new job class will be the larger of
the minimum rate for that category or the student's previous
wage rate plus a 50 cent per hour increase.
Job Title: BI Team level 5
Work study preferred but not required. Description: -
This position will provide leadership a range of high-level BI team.
The person will be the one of the primary team leads, leading in
design (system or software) or Business analysis. Student is expected
to have signifcant technical skills comensurate with Senior or
graduate level standing. The will lead the team research, manage the
team personell and interact directly with the client company providing
the financial support for the team. Students are expected to have
completed ENTP100 and INOV101, Inov 201, 202, 301, Inov 210, Blaw 201.
- For 2006/2007 there are no level 5 positions are expected to be open.
Initial Hiring:
- Selected based on their performance in class, and an interview.
- Students will be hired at the somewhere within the Student Assistant V job category depending on skills.
Raises:
- After review, student employees may receive a merit promotion of one
up to $0.50 after they have completed three months of
work and a minimum of 100 hours in a this job category.
Additional Merit Raises:
- Two times only, after a minimum of 3 months of employment, the
supervisor may give the student employee and additional merit
raise of one salary step (25 cents). Justification for this
additional step will be by memo explanation or evaluation form of
the student’s performance.
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