[Job-offers-cs] Postdoctoral Position - Optimization & Learning for Collective Communication in Datacenters

[Pekka Orponen]

Dear All,

The Operations Research Team at Huawei France Research Center 
(Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris area) is opening a 12-month postdoctoral 
position (with a possible 6-month extension) in the context of the ANR 
project Net4AI.

The topic focuses on optimizing collective communication within 
datacenters during large language model (LLM) training and inference. 
Communication between GPUs during these operations is a major 
bottleneck. The objective is to develop optimization and learning-based 
approaches to enhance communication efficiency and reduce training time, 
by addressing both offline and online decision-making challenges. 
Offline, a bi-level optimization problem is to be solved for GPU 
assignment, job scheduling, and routing. Online, reinforcement learning 
methods will be investigated to adaptively buffer and balance tasks 
based on real-time network conditions.

Keywords: Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, Datacenter Networking, 
Collective Communication, LLM Training

This position is part of Huawei's research initiative on next-generation 
AI infrastructure and offers the opportunity to collaborate with a 
dynamic and multidisciplinary team.

Interested candidates can apply by replying to this email with a 
detailed CV, a cover letter, university transcripts, and references.

Kind regards,
Dr. Youcef Magnouche
Huawei France Research Center
youcef.magnouche at huawei.com