Call for Papers

Two PhD Positions on manycore computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

11 01 2010

The School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) announces one doctoral position in electronic and computer systems.

KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. Education and research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering, as well as architecture, industrial engineering and management, urban planning, work science and environmental engineering. There are circa 12,000 full-year undergraduate students, 1,400 postgraduate students and 3,100 employees.

The School of Information and Communication Technology, ICT, conducts research and education in the areas Material Physics, Electronics, and Information Technology. We work with the scientific and mathematical foundation, with the technical infrastructure as well as with systems and services. We have an internationally competitive profile in research in nano electronics, photonics, electronic and computer systems, software technology and communication as well as systems sciences and software construction technologies. The collaboration with the surrounding companies and society takes place e.g. in Kista Science City. We offer a broad spectrum of education programs, for the Swedish titles “civilingenjör” and “högskoleingenjör”, as well as candidate programs. We also offer a number of master programs entirely taught in English for advanced undergraduate studies with a separate, highly competitive recruitment from a predominantly international student base.

Within the framework of a new EU project we are seeking two PhD students to the department of software and computer systems at KTH School of Information and Communication Technology. The department has a well recognized research and PhD education within computer systems and architecture, distributed systems and software systems. The positions will be placed with Kista Multicore Center which is a research group common for KTH and SICS, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.

The research project is about enabling technologies for efficient programming of future manycore processors. The project includes experimental implementations evaluated scientifically with the help of existing parallel computers and simulations of future computer systems.

Qualifications

Suitable background is a master degree in computer science and engineering, electrical engineering or within similar areas. Furthermore we assume that the successful applicant is self-going, curious and with a raving interest in computer systems. We expect that the applicant has very good knowledge in computer engineering and architecture, digital design, programming (including programming of parallel computers) and in system software such as operating systems, run-time systems and compilers. Good knowledge in written and spoken English is mandatory and working knowledge of Swedish is a merit.