[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc and PhD student position in Algorithms for Communication Networks at the University of Vienna

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] Postdoc and PhD student position in Algorithms for 
Communication Networks at the University of Vienna
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:21:36 +0200
From: Monika Henzinger <monika.henzinger at univie.ac.at>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de

At the University of Vienna (15 faculties, 3 centers, about 188 fields 
of study, approx. 9.400 members of staff, more than 90.000 students) the 
positions of a

*University Assistant ("prae doc") and a University Assistant 
("post-doctoral researcher") in the research group "Theory and 
Applications of Algorithms" (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger) *

are vacant.

We are looking for two highly motivated and bright applicants with a 
strong expertise and interest in graph and network algorithms in 
particular, and in theoretical computer science in general, to join our 
team around our project on "Fast Algorithms for a Reactive Network 
Layer" funded by the Austrian Science Foundation.

Traditionally and still today, communication networks are operated in a 
rather static and conservative manner. This has good reasons: 
communication networks constitute a critical infrastructure of our 
digital society, and dynamic optimizations always come with risks of 
instabilities or even outages. However, it is also known that in 
principle a more dynamic network operation can greatly improve the 
efficiency of networks: empirical studies show that communication 
traffic contains much structure, i.e., it is bursty and skewed. More 
dynamic network operations are also useful to support adaptive policy 
changes, service relocations, or emerging "self-driving networks". This 
project is motivated by the desire to leverage the benefits of more 
flexible network operations but without sacrificing the reliability 
guarantees of more conservative operations. In fact, we believe that a 
more adaptive network operation can even improve the dependability of a 
network.

We aim to lay the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of more 
adaptive networks, using algorithmic tools from dynamic graph 
algorithms, approximation algorithms, online algorithms and distributed 
algorithms. In addition to our theoretical contributions, we also aim to 
show the practical importance of our approaches (possibly in 
collaboration with an Internet Service Provider).

The project is a collaboration between the research groups "Theory and 
Applications of Algorithms", led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger, 
and "Data Communications and Networking", led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan 
Schmid at TU Berlin. Both research groups are internationally well-known 
and received ERC grants in the past.

*Extent of Employment: *30.0 hours/week for the PhD student and 40.0 
hours/week for the Postdoctorial researcher

**

*Areas of work: *

Participation in research, teaching and administration:

- Participation in research projects / research studies

- Participation in publications / academic articles / presentations

- We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement 
within 12-18 months.

- Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as 
defined by the collective agreement

- Supervision of Bachelor and Master students

- Involvement in the organization of meetings, conferences, symposiums

- Involvement in the department administration as well as in teaching 
and research administration

**

*Profile**: *

- Professional competence in graph and network algorithms, theoretical 
computer science, optimization

- Methodological competence in algorithm design and analysis, writing 
rigorous proofs, algorithm engineering

- Didactic competence

- High ability to express yourself both orally and in writing

- Excellent command of written and spoken English

- IT user skills

- Ability to work in a team

Desirable qualifications are

- Teaching experience / experience of working with e-learning

- Knowledge of university processes and structures

- Experience abroad

- Basic experience in research methods and academic writing

*Application documents *

- Letter of motivation

- Academic curriculum vitae

- List of publications, evidence of teaching experience (if available)

- Degree certificates, including report cards for PhD student

Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should 
be sent to applications.taa at univie.ac.at no later than May 16, 2021.

The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values 
equal opportunities, as well as diversity 
(http://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University lays special emphasis 
on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. 
Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.

-- 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. h.c. Monika Henzinger, PhD
Research group "Theory and Applications of Algorithms"
Faculty of Computer Science
University of Vienna
https://cs.univie.ac.at/monika.henzinger 
<https://cs.univie.ac.at/monika.henzinger>