Department: TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland

Minimum Qualification Required:

    * Possess a Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

    * Have strong programming skills of Java and experience of implementing numerical algorithms with Java

    * Have a good understanding or some experience in the following areas: database, statistics, machine learning, or data mining.

    * With good written and spoken English, and ideally some existing publications

Major Duties:

    * Develop the novel algorithms and scalable software systems for Predictive Analytics and Web services based on Semantic Web mining.

    * Study novel techniques of distributed data mining.

Applications should include:

    * a curriculum vitae with a list of publications,

    * a cover letter and a statement of research interests,

    * the names and e-mail addresses of two references.

Applications should be sent by e-mail with Subject “PHD Position” to: hfu[ at ]tssg.org

For further details regarding the research project, please contact Dr. Huaiguo Fu (hfu[ at ]tssg.org ).

Closing Date : 01/05/2008