Call for Papers

Date Expires: 2009-12-31
Position type: Postgraduate Ph.D. Student
Salary: Standard tax-free stipend + PhD fees (EU rates) for four years

Dr. Alexey Lastovetsky is currently recruiting to fill a number of fully-funded PhD positions in the UCD HCL as part of a Science Foundation Ireland funded 5-year project on high performance heterogeneous computing. The objectives of this project are to design and implement algorithms and programming tools for high performance computing on modern heterogeneous and hierarchical platforms such as heterogeneous computational clusters, clusters of multicores, heterogeneous computing nodes, global networks of computers.

Applicants should have Master or at least Bachelor degree (achieving no less than 2.1) in Computer Science or related areas (Computational Science, High Performance Computing, Engineering, etc.). Strong mathematical and Unix programming (C language) skills are required. Preference will be given to applicants with experience in high
performance parallel and distributed computing and good multithreaded and MPI programming skills.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the required qualifications, a detailed CV, a letter of recommendation from a senior academic, a copy of your MSc thesis (if any), and copies of your publications (if any) representative for the required skills to Alexey Lastovetsky at Alexey.Lastovetsky@ucd.ie. For informal information about
the positions, please contact Dr. Lastovetsky.

Up to 6 PhD research fellowships are offered in the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (IME), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The department wants as good applicants as possible, hence there are no restrictions on the research topic, as long as the candidate works within one of the department’s research areas, cf. the department’s web pages with an overview of its research groups: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/about/groups.php.

Applicants must have a Master degree in computer science, informatics, software engineering, information systems or similar is required. The PhD fellow is expected to participate in the professional community within the relevant areas of IDI. Applicants must contact a preferred supervisor at the department (professor or associate professor, specific persons can be found by clicking the research groups that seem most appropriate on the web page mentioned above), and in collaboration with the preferred supervisor make a project description of 2000-3000 words to follow the application. The project description is to document theoretical and methodological knowledge about the research area together with a sketch of important research problems. The evaluation of applicants will be based on their education, job experience, possibly other relevant experience and scientific publications. Applicants must satisfy the formal requirements for admission to the PhD studies at NTNU. See http://www.ime.ntnu.no/english/research/phd for detailed information on the PhD programs administrated by IME.

For full announcement, see:

http://www.idi.ntnu.no/about/description_jobs.php?id=163

Application are to be submitted electronically, see link below. https://secure.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=62406

Applications should be marked IME-064-2009. Closing date: 2009-12-01.