4 Doctoral students in Computer Science - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Description

The Faculty of Health, Science and Technology invites applications for four doctoral studentships in Computer Science with a focus on data driven mobile networks and services at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Computer Science has received funding from the Knowledge Foundation of Sweden for a research profile on data-driven latency-sensitive mobile services for a digitalized society (DRIVE).  The profile is an eight-year 130 MSEK effort that will be run in close collaboration with our industrial partners Ericsson, Icomera, Mullvad, Telia, TietoEvry and Varnish.

DRIVE will be launched in the fall and we are now looking to recruit four new PhD students to strengthen our team and start up work in the profile.

Duties

Main duties are to contribute to research and development within the DRIVE research profile. The work will be carried out in close collaboration with other researchers at the department and our industrial partners. Depending on the interest and skills of the applicant, the research work may be focused in one of several related areas. We will to recruit one student each in the following areas:

• How to use network programmability frameworks and languages such as P4 to accelerate packet processing functions for providing flexible, QoS-enabled, and scalable connectivity in next-generation mobile networks (Area 1).
• How to design data- and service-driven solutions that can facilitate adaptive and latency-aware communication in beyond 5G/6G mobile networks (Area 2).
• How to model various parts of multi-tier computation platforms, and design scalable latency-aware AI/ML-based optimization solutions for service provisioning along the cloud continuum (i.e., IoT-Edge-Cloud platforms) (Area 3).
• How to measure and analyze end-to-end latency performance to gain insights on the integrated performance of DRIVE solutions, and data analytics for current and future 5G/6G networks (Area 4).

A doctoral student is mainly expected to engage in doctoral studies. The doctoral programme consists of 240 higher education credits, including the doctoral thesis, and 120 higher education credits for a degree of licentiate. A doctoral student works independently and is prepared to contribute to the subject’s and department’s activities, as well as perform teaching and administration duties. Such duties may not constitute more than 20% of full-time.

To contribute to a positive work environment and the department’s activities, the doctoral student will be a present and active part of the day-to-day operations and workplace community.

Qualification requirements

To be eligible for doctoral studies, the applicant must meet the general and specific entry requirements (Higher Education Ordinance, Chap. 7, Sect. 35).

To meet the general entry requirements, the applicant must have been awarded a Degree of Master, satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits of which at least 60 credits were at master’s level, or acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad (Higher Education Ordinance, Chap. 7, Sect. 39).

To meet the specific entry requirements for third-cycle studies in computer science, the applicant must have completed a Master’s degree (60 credits) in computer science, a Master’s degree (120 credits) in computer science or a Master of Science degree in computer engineering. A person who in some other way in the country or abroad has acquired equivalent qualifications also meets the specific entry requirements.

Admission and assessment criteria

To be eligible for doctoral studies, the applicant must be considered to have the ability required to benefit from the programme (Higher Education Ordinance, Chap. 7, Sect. 35). Admission is based on individual assessment.

The assessment will focus on the applicant’s performance in previous studies, the quality of any independent projects completed during these studies, and in particular to such projects completed at a master level and in the proposed research specialization. The most important assessment criteria for the selection are scientific skills, language skills, and suitability for the project.

Considerable weight will also be given to personal qualities such as the ability to cooperate, sound judgement, taking responsibility, commitment and a positive attitude towards colleagues and students.

Terms

Upon admission to doctoral studies, the person will be offered the appointment of doctoral student (Higher Education Ordinance, Chap. 5, Sect. 3). The position comprises four years of full-time studies, or five years of 80% studies and 20% teaching or other departmental duties. The position is fixed-term—one year initially, followed by possible extensions of a maximum of two years at a time. Start date as negotiated.

The salary for the doctoral studentship corresponds to the standard level of salary for doctoral students at Karlstad University.

Application

Submit the application via the university’s web-based recruitment tool, Varbi.

Applicants are responsible for submitting a complete application in accordance with the advertisement, for providing translations of any documents written in a language other than Swedish or English, and for ensuring that the documentation allows for objective and qualitative assessments. A complete application should be submitted by the application deadline. An incomplete application may jeopardise a fair assessment of qualifications.

The application should include:

• a cover letter where the applicants account for the reasons behind their interest in the position, why they think their qualifications and skills fit to the duties of the position, and which DRIVE research area or areas they are most interested in (max. two pages),
• a list of qualifications (CV),
• degree certificate with a complete transcript of the courses included, or a certified list of completed courses with grades and dates,
• copy of the master’s thesis or equivalent,
• where applicable, copies of publications or certificates for other qualifications
• any letters of recommendation.
• two references, such as a teacher, supervisor, or previous or current superior.

Attach all the documents and publications you wish to be considered to the electronic application (do not just provide links). Name each uploaded document to clearly indicate its content.

Documents that cannot be submitted electronically should be sent to the following address:

Karlstads universitet
Josefin Rönnqvist
651 88 KARLSTAD

Application deadline: 31 August 2022

State the ref.no: REK 2022/183

We look forward to your application!

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