Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO), DHI and Aarhus Graduate School of Science (AGSoS) offer a PhD position (full tuition and a very competitive scholarship) in efficient use of massive sensor data in hydrological models.
MADALGO is a major computer science research center funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The center is located at the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, but also includes researchers at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and at Frankfurt University. The center covers all areas of the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms and data structures for processing massive data, but initial focus is mainly on I/O-efficient, cache-oblivious and streaming algorithms. See www.madalgo.au.dk for more information.
DHI is an independent, international consulting and research organisation. The objectives of DHI are to advance technological development and competence within the fields of water, environment and health. DHI has more than 750 employees based in 20 countries worldwide, and offers a wide range of consulting services and leading edge technologies, software tools, chemical/biological laboratories and physical model test facilities as well as field surveys and monitoring programmes. DHI is a leader in hydrological modeling software. See www.dhigroup.com for more information.
The overall goal of the project is to develop algorithms and software that are capable of processing the massive datasets being produced by modern sensor technologies such as LIDAR and SONAR. More concretely, the goal is to develop new efficient algorithms for processing massive terrain datasets and to use these algorithms, as well as the the tools and techniques developed at MADALGO (e.g. in the TerraSTREAM project - see www.madalgo.au.dk/Trac-TerraSTREAM/) to improve the efficiency of a number of specific tasks in DHI's hydrological models.
Applications are welcomed from students with at least three years of full-time study by summer of 2008. Students with a strong background in the design and analysis of algorithms or in hydrological modeling will be preferred. Please refer to www.nat.au.dk/en/phd for further information about PhD studies at AGSoS. Enquiries can also be sent to MADALGO Center Leader, Professor Lars Arge (large@madalgo.au.dk) or Jesper Grooss (jgr@dhigroup.com) at DHI Software Products.
Applications must be submitted electronically through the AGSoS web-site at https://mit.au.dk/endex.cfm. The application deadline is 15 May 2008, 12.00. Please see the Applicant’s Guide on how to apply and general information about AGSoS and the PhD programme at http://www.science.au.dk/en/phd. Please choose the reference no. 2008-218/5-22, and choose the field “Computer Science” and “Department of Computer Science” when applying for this particular position.