Uppsala University (Sweden) hereby declares the following position open for application:
PhD position in Constraint Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks
at the Department of Information Technology.
The ProFuN project (www.it.uu.se/research/profun) on "A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks" is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) from 2009 to 2013. The goal is to provide a programming environment where sensors can be programmed as an ensemble rather than individually, so that programmers can focus on the services provided by the collection of sensors rather than on which particular sensor to program or on how communication will take place.
Combinatorial problems abound in this area, and the objective of this PhD is to model and solve the ones most strategic to ProFuN using constraint programming, by global search (propagation-based tree search) or local search. Problems occurring in the pre-configuration phase at the middleware level are especially important, such as the optimal placement of sensors in the network before deployment, determining the optimal subset and schedule of sensors to be activated after deployment, and optimal clustering. You may contact us for a more detailed description of these problems.
The PhD student shall be hosted by both the ASTRA research group on constraint programming (www.it.uu.se/research/group/astra) and the CoRe group on communications research (www.it.uu.se/research/group/core). The supervisors will be Professor Pierre Flener and Dr Justin Pearson (senior lecturer) of ASTRA, as well as Dr Edith Ngai (lecturer) of CoRe.
A PhD student position requires a Master of Science in a field that is relevant for the topic of the PhD thesis. Candidates of all nationalities may apply. The position is for a maximum of five years and includes departmental duties at a level of at most 20% (typically teaching). The starting salary is 22,200 SEK per month.
The candidate is expected to have some background in combinatorial problem solving (especially constraint programming) and/or wireless sensor networks, a demonstrated interest in both topics, as well as strong skills in discrete mathematics and programming.
Uppsala University is striving to achieve a more equal gender balance and female candidates are particularly invited to apply.
For more information, please contact: Prof. Pierre Flener, Pierre.Flener@it.uu.se, tel: +46 18 471 1028, Dr Justin Pearson, Justin.Pearson@it.uu.se, tel: +46 18 471 7292, or Dr Edith Ngai, Edith.Ngai@it.uu.se, tel: +46 18 471 5777.
The application deadline is 24 August 2009, and the instructions at http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser/1792dorand_eng.html must be followed.
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