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Post Doctoral Research Associate: CREST Centre, Software Systems Engineering,
UCL
Duties and Responsibilities
Applications are invited for a Research Associate post on an EPSRC-funded grant
in the CREST centre at UCL, working on the relationship between Program
Analysis and Search Based Optimization. We seek a candidate with a track record
in either of these two areas (Analysis or SBSE). We welcome applications from
those with expertise in either of these two areas and a willingness to develop
the growing research agenda that lies at the interface between the two.
The post is graded as a Research Grade 7 the salary for which ranges from
£29,249 per annum to £35,938 per annum (plus a further London Allowance of
£2,795).
The closing date is 22 April 2012.
The Research Environment
The post will be situated in the CREST centre, which is part of the Software
Systems, Engineering group (SSE) within the Department of Computer Science at
UCL.
The CREST centre at UCL builds on the three foundations of Program Dependence,
Information Theory and Optimisation Algorithms. On these three foundations are
developed ways to analyse, understand and improve software, with applications
throughout the spectrum of software development activities. The centre recently
received both platform (£1.2m, 2009-2014) and programme (£6.7m, 2012-2018)
grants from the EPSRC and has other current funding from other funders such as
the EU, AHRC and Royal Society as well as cash gifts from HP, Google and
Motorola.
CREST also hosts a series of monthly workshops, the CREST Open Workshop
Programme (the COWs). As of March 2012, there has been a total of 575
registrations from 286 different attendees, who came to CREST from 134
institutions spread over 29 countries. As the CREST website shows, these
workshops have hosted presentations from some of the world’s leading scientist
in Software Engineers from both Industry and Academia. Talks are video recorded
and archived along with slides and other resources on the CREST website at
http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/
CREST is part of the Software Systems Engineering at UCL, one of the world’s
leading Software Engineering groups. The group has three former ICSE chairs and
membership of many editorial boards and programme committees. Its work is
highly cited and used by ABB, Daimler, Ericsson, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft and
Motorola.
UCL itself was founded in 1826 and was one of the two founding colleges of the
University of London in 1836. UCL is the 13th Most cited University in the
world (based on data from 1999 to 2009) and the most cited in Europe. Its
current and former staff include 26 Nobel Prize winners and 3 winners of the
fields medal. It is consistently ranked in the top twenty Universities in the
world according to a wide variety of University ranking systems.
The post is funded for 12 months in the first instance. Over the period of the
appointment we anticipate a number of further future posts will appear since
the CREST centre and the department have funding for ambitious and exciting
development.
Key Requirements
Candidates should hold a PhD in a relevant subject, or will shortly be assessed
for a PhD level qualification.
Publication in relevant leading peer reviewed conferences and/or journals is
essential.
Further Details
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/index.php (job vacancy no. 1241607).
If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process,
please e-mail [email protected] or telephone +44 (0)20 7679 0325.
Informal enquiries about the post are very welcome. Contact Professor Mark
Harman ([email protected]).
