NUS - National University of Singapore

Research Position Recruitments

Applicants are invited to apply for the following:

(I) Research Fellow in Scalable Timing Analysis Methods for Embedded Software

(II) Job Title: Research Fellow in SOFTWARE TESTING and ANALYSIS

(III) Job Title: Research Assistant in Felicitous Computing

(IV) Job Title: Research Fellow in Felicitous Computing

(V) Job Title: Research Fellow in Database Research

(I) Research Fellow in Scalable Timing Anaysis Methods for Embedded Software

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Funding and Open Positions _________________________________________________________________________________________

This project is funded by A*STAR Public Sector Funding for threee years 2012-2015.

Principal Investigator (PI): Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore.

We are advertising to fill up 3 open positions - 1 Research Fellow or post-doc and 2 Research Assistants.

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Research Fellow Opening _________________________________________________________________________________________

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Department of Computer Science in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has an immediate opening for a Research Fellow with expertise in timing analysis / embedded systems. For more details about the project, read the "Aims of the project" in the later half of this advertisement.

REQUIREMENTS

A PhD degree in a relevant area of Computer Science (Embedded Systems, Programming Languages and Systems)
Background in timing analysis / embedded software is desired.
Fluent in written and spoken English
Good publication record
A strong desire to work as part of a research team, and
Experience/ interest in building prototype software tools

LENGTH OF APPOINTMENT
The appointment is available immediately and will last for one year, renewable to a total of two years.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE
The successful candidate can expect a competitive salary of S$5,000 to S$7,000 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) and a comprehensive package of benefits, including health coverage.

ABOUT NUS & SINGAPORE
NUS is a world-class university that provides an outstanding, supportive research environment. Its School of Computing was recently ranked by QS as #1 in Asia and #12 in the world. Singapore is a modern diverse, highly developed country with an excellent standard of living. For more details about the QS ranking see http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011/subject rankings/engineering/computer-science

APPLICATION MODE & CONTACT PERSON
Interested applicants should send a CV, including a list of publications and a list of references, by e-mail to Prof. Abhik Roychoudhury
e-mail: abhik@comp.nus.edu.sg

CLOSING DATE
The position will remain open until filled.

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Aims of the Project _________________________________________________________________________________________

Real-time embedded software are ubiquitious and control the functionality of many devices used in our everyday lives. The focus of the proposed project will be on compositional timing analysis methods which effiiently derive Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) estimates of large real-life embedded software. WCET analysis usually involves program path analysis as well as micro-architectural analysis. We will aim for achieving compositionality both at the program level, as well as in the construction of timing models for the underlying micro-architecture.

At the program level, we plan to generate timing summaries of the individual program fragments such as functions / procedures. Consequently, if a library or a small part of a program is changed - we do not need to re-do the entire analysis.

At the micro-architecture level, our focus will be on building timing models to capture the timing effects of multi-cores. Processor manufacturers have increasing moved towards mult-cores, and this has impacted the embedded processor market as well. However, when we build a software timing analyzer for multi-core platforms, we want the analyzer to be cofnfigurable with respect to small changes, such as the changes in the number of cores. Such configurability may be achieved by compositional analysis of the timing effects of the individual cores, that is, we want to analyze the timing effects of each processor core individually and compose them to get the timing effects of a multi-core platform. This removes the need to re-do the complete analysis in case of small changes in the platform.

The main deliverable of the project is a scalable WCET analysis tool that can generate tight execution time bounds for software (possible running via a real-time operating system RTOS) on multi-core platforms. This will validate the utility of the compositional timing analysis methods proposed in the project.

(II) Job Title: Research Fellow in SOFTWARE TESTING and ANALYSIS

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Department of Computer Science in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has an immediate opening for a Research Fellow with expertise in software testing and analysis. The successful candidate will possess research background in software testing or program analysis / verification. For more details about the project, please see
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~abhik/projects/moe10/project.html

REQUIREMENTS

A PhD degree in a relevant area of Computer Science (Software Engineering, Programming Languages and Systems)
Background in software testing or analysis or verification is desired, but not required.
Fluent in written and spoken English
Good publication record
A strong desire to work as part of a research team, and
Experience/ interest in building prototype software tools

LENGTH OF APPOINTMENT
The appointment is available immediately and will last for one year, renewable to a total of two years.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE
The successful candidate can expect a competitive salary of S$5,000 to S$6,000 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) and a comprehensive package of benefits, including health coverage.

APPLICATION MODE & CONTACT PERSON
Interested applicants should send a CV, including a list of publications and a list of references, by e-mail to Prof. Abhik Roychoudhury
e-mail: abhik@comp.nus.edu.sg
homepage: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~abhik

CLOSING DATE
The position will remain open until filled.

(III) Job Title: Research Assistant in Felicitious Computing

JOB DESCRIPTION

The School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently establised the Felicitous Computing Institute devoted to multi-disciplinary research problems and applications for next-generation ubiquitous computing. The Institute has several immediate openings for Research Assistants in all aspects of ubiquitous computing, including mobile compuitng, social networking, sensor networks, context-awareness, speech- and motion-based interaction, and user modeling and evaluation. The sucessful candidate will possess outstanding programming and analytical abilities and the ability to learn new languages, tools and plaforms. The successful candidate will also have a passion for experimenting with novel applications.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

A MSc or first -class honours in Computer Science or Information Systems
Fluent in written and spoken English
Excellent communication skills
Outstanding programming ability
High creativity for independent work
A strong desire to work as part of a research team
Previous work experience and publication experience are highly desirable

NATURE OF JOB

Programming novel infrastructures and applications on next-generation computing platforms such as smartphone s and sensor networks
Conducting experiments, case studies, user studies and other empirical evaluations of prototype systems
Enhancing and maintaining the Institute Web site
Contributing to the writing of research papers for submission to and publication in leading conference and journal venues
Demonstrating results and prototypes to visitors
Collaborating with colleagues across research groups within the School of Computing and with colleagues from faculities outside the School of Computing
Promoting the goals and achievements of the Institute
Full engagement with the scholarly life of the School of Computing at NUS

LENGTH OF APPOINTMENT

Appointments are available immediately and will last for one year, renewable annually based on performance and available funding.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

The successful candidate can expect a competitive salary of S$3,000 to S$4,000 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) and a comprehensive package of benefits.

ABOUT NUS & SINGAPORE

NUS is a world-claass university that provides an outstanding, supportive research environment. Its School of Computing was recently ranked by QS as #1 in Asia and #12 in the world. Singapore is a modern diverse, highly developed country with an excellent standard of living.

APPLICATION MODE & CONTACT PERSON

Interested applicants should send a letter of motivation describling past and current research interests and accomplishments together with a CV, including a list of publications and a list of references, by e-mail to fci-admin@comp.nus.edu.sg,

CLOSING DATE

The position will remain open until filled.

(IV) Job Title: Research Fellow in Felicitious Computing

JOB DESCRIPTION

The School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) recnlty establised the Felicitous Computing Institute devoted to multi-disciplinary research problems and applications for next-generation ubiquitous computing. The Institute has several immediate openings for Research Fellows in all aspects of ubiquitous computing, including mobile compuitng, social networking, sensor networks, context-awareness, speech and motion-based interaction, and user modeling and evaluation. The successful candidate will possess outstanding expertise in novel approaches for the design of ubiquitous computing systems, for ensuring their dependability, for enhancing them with multiple modes of user interaction, and/or for evaluating and understanding their impact on users and society. The sucessful candidate will also have a passion for experimenting with novel applications of such approaches.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

A PhD in a relevant area of Computing or Information Systems, or a PhD in the Social Sciences with a central emphasis on relevant problems in Computing or Information Systems
Research experience in Computing or Information Systems
Fluent in written and spoken English
An excellent publication record
Excellent communication skills
High creativity for independent research
A strong desire to work as part of a research team

NATURE OF JOB

Investigating and developing theories, algorithms, approaches, techniques, tools and applications for next-generation ubiquitous computing systems, including novel approaches for their evaluation
Writing of research papers for submission to and publication in leading conference and journal venues
Presenting research results in seminars, workshops and cnference
Presenting results and protoypes to visitors
Collaborating with colleagues across research groups within the School of Computing and with colleagues from faculities outside the School of Computing
initiating collaborations with relevant companies
Contributin to the writing of proposals for external funding for the Institute
Promoting the goals and achievements of the Institute
Full engagement with the scholarly life of the Institute and the School of Computing

LENGTH OF APPOINTMENT

Appointments are available immediately and will last for one year, renewable annually based on performance and available funding.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

The successful candidate can expect a competitive salary of S$5,000 to S$7,000 per month (depending on qualifications and experience) and a comprehensive package of benefits.

ABOUT NUS & SINGAPORE

APPLICATION MODE & CONTACT PERSON

CLOSING DATE

The position will remain open until filled.

(V) Position: Research Fellow in Database Research

Deadline: Until position is filled

Start Date: August 2010 or later as soon as position is filled.

Job Description

The School of Computing (www.comp.nus.edu.sg) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) is looking for an outstanding research fellow in database research.

The appointee will join a team of researchers from NUS and A*Star working in a new proiject on Hippocratic Data Stream Cloud Computing. The appointee will work closely with the Project Investigators: Stephane Bressan (www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~steph) and Kian-Lee Tan (www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tankl). The most important goal of the research is to produce high-impact results and publications in the very best conference and journals in the area.

Requirements

Fluent in written and spoken English
A PhD degree in Computer Science
Must have a strong background and interests in one or several of the following areas: query processing and optimization, stream data processing, privacy and information integration.

Remuneration & Benefits

The successful candidate can expect a competitive salary (S$5,000 to S$7,000 per month depending on qualifications and experience) and benefits.

Term of Appointment

The appointment will commence in August 2010 or later and will be for one year, renewable to a total of three years.

Contact Person:

Interested applicants should send a letter of motivation describing past and current research interests together with a CV, including a list of publications and letters of recommendation to Stephane Bressan (steph@nus.edu.sg).