-- PhD Fellowship, Position to be filled --
The HiPERCOM team at INRIA in Paris, France, offers 1 PhD fellowship. The position focuses on leveraging the Internet of Things to provide better safety and security in public spaces potentially gathering a large number of people, such as airports, train stations etc. The goals are (i) to better prevent mass panic by early, sensor-enhanced detection of potentially disturbing events, and (ii) to better detect abnormal behavior or presence in specifically monitored areas. The PhD student will fully participate in a new collaboration between INRIA, Freie Universität Berlin, and SAGEM, among other partners of the SAFEST project (jointly funded by ANR & BMBF). If you join the team, you will: • join a 3 year PhD program; • spend a significant chunk of that time in Berlin at the Freie Universität, and the rest of the time in Paris at INRIA (precise dates to be determined with the applicant). • obtain a fellowship starting from € 23,500 gross per year. We encourage motivated and skilled candidates to apply for this position, which will focus on the following challenges: • MAC and IP layers; • Self-configuration and self-adaptation across the whole network protocol stack; • Communication protocols for memory/CPU constrained devices. --- Skills --- Good programming skills are required. Applicants must have a Master degree in Computer Science or in another appropriate field. Good english is a requirement (f rench and/or german skills are a plus but not a requirement. The following fields are particularly relevant: • Wireless Networking; • Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (IEEE 802.15.4, RPL, 6LowPan); • Distributed algorithms; • Simulations (ns3, ns2 or equivalent); • Experiments (Contiki, ARM-based nodes, MSP430 based nodes such as wsn430, mica2, telosb, etc). --- How to apply --- Applicants should email to [email protected] and provide: • a CV; • a cover letter describing why they are interested in this PhD fellowship; • two recommendation letters (or more); • the grades for the last 2 years and their ranking in their master program; For more information email emmanuel.baccelli@inria. fr Deadline: July 9th 2012 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
