[Tccc] PhD research positions in Intelligent Systems Center, NTU, Singapore

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Sun Nov 20 15:36:16 EST 2011


The Intelligent Systems Centre (IntelliSys) at Nanyang Technological
University (NTU) is working on various R&D issues in sensor networks
and cyber-physical systems in order to develop impactful applications
for large-scale deployment in Singapore.

We are collaborating with the Center for Environmental Sensing and
Modeling (CENSAM) and the Future Urban Mobility (FM) Interdisciplinary
Research Groups (IRG) of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and
Technology (SMART) :

http://smart.mit.edu/research/censam/censam.html
http://censam.mit.edu
http://smart.mit.edu/research/future-urban-mobility/future-urban-mobility.html

We are recruiting new PhD students for collaborative research at SMART
and IntelliSys, to be funded by the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)
Graduate Fellowships :

http://smart.mit.edu/fellowships/sma3-graduate-fellowship/sma3-graduate-fellowship.html

In particular, we are looking for students who are keen on these
research projects :

1. CENSAM
- Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems
- Cyberinfrastructure for CENSAM

2. Future Urban Mobility
- Cooperative Perception for Situational Awareness and Vehicle Control
- Congestion-Aware Routing
- Coordinated Allocation of Resources for Optimizing and Analyzing
  Urban Traffic
- Intelligent Analysis of Ubiquitous Data
- Smartphone based Prompted Recall Survey


We invite promising candidates who are keen to pursue PhD studies under
the SMA Graduate Fellowship to join our team :

Responsibilities :
* Pursue PhD research on a suitable topic under the co-supervision of
  an MIT and NTU faculty.
* May spend up to 6 months doing research at MIT.

Requirements :
* A Masters or Bachelors in Computer Engineering, Computer Science,
  Electrical Engineering, or related fields, with First Class or
  Second-Upper Class Honors (or equivalent).
* Good GRE and TOEFL scores.
* Must be able to gain admission into NTU for a full-time PhD degree
  programme.
* Interest to do research in one or more of the following areas:
  sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, distributed systems, embedded
  systems, wireless and mobile ad hoc networks, vehicular networks,
  participatory sensing and mobile computing, ambient intelligence,
  cloud computing, middleware design, sensor data management, simulation,
  performance evaluation.
* Strong programming skills in C/C++, Java, etc.
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Desirable Attributes :
* Great interest and desire to be a productive researcher.
* Previous experience in developing system software.
* Innovative, resourceful, and self-motivated.
* A team player with good people skills.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.

For more information on graduate studies in NTU, please refer to :
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/collegesandprogrammes/graduate/Pages/research.aspx

The closing date of the application is on 15 December 2011.

Please contact us by sending a cover letter and full CV/resume to :
intellisys.jobs at gmail.com



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