Job Opportunities

Institution: Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Start date: Immediately
Duration: 1-3 years
Location: Crete, Greece
Date of Announcement: 25 April 2013

Description:

Two junior R&D positions in the area of storage systems are available in the CARV Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece (http://www.ics.forth.gr). The area of storage systems is currently under significant change due to changes in underlying technologies that open exciting possibilities. Candidates should typically be pre-PhD researchers or engineers. The ideal candidates would hold a Master's in computer science, computer engineering or related field, would have developed familiarity in computer systems and computer architecture, and good systems building skills in low-level systems software (e.g. kernel modules, network protocols, file-systems, block-level storage systems, controller firmware). The duration of the appointment is 1 year with possibility of extending to 3 years. Applications for smaller periods will also be considered

Applicants must submit the following documents:

• Detailed Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of purpose
• Official degrees and transcripts showing all courses attended by the applicant and grade for each course
• Three recommendation letters
• Copies of any research papers or other significant work by the applicant

These positions can be combined with graduate studies in the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete that has an established graduate program.

Links:

FORTH-ICS: http://www.ics.forth.gr
CARV: http://www.ics.forth.gr/carv/index.html

For more information or to apply, please contact:

Prof. Angelos Bilas
Foundation for Reasearch and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Institute of Computer Science (ICS)
N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton
GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Email: bilas@ics.forth.gr

The REtinal VAscular Modeling, Measurement And Diagnosis (REVAMMAD) project will train a new generation of scientists able to effectively translate the latest vascular modeling theory and computerized image analysis techniques into effective interventions for some of the most important chronic medic conditions afflicting the EU, including hypertension and diabetes. It will particularly ensure that there is rich clinical and industrial involvement to ensure that the training is focused with end-users and exploitation in mind. The vasculature undergoes changes in response to early stages of these diseases, reflecting fundamental physiological processes within the vessels. The retina provides a unique “window onto the vasculature”, allowing it to be viewed and measurements made in vivo, and advances in imaging technologies make it increasingly possible to measure subtle changes using computer vision algorithms, including through routine medical checks such as eye tests. The field is currently fragmented, with many excellent pockets of collaboration focused on defined specialisms, particularly between clinicians and modelers, or clinicians and measurement specialists, but lacking overall structure. Despite the importance and incidence of the diseases and the evidence for the possibility of better diagnosis through imaging, there has been relatively little translation of theory into clinical practice. Integrative action is required to train researchers who understand the medical, clinical, technological and commercial aspects of the problem domain and to establish common working methodologies and tools across the field. REVAMMAD will train early careers researchers who combine these skills in order to motivate the introduction of high impact interventions in the future.

REVAMMAD Early Stage Researchers will each be employed on a 36 month contract, and will be expected to enrol on a PhD at one of the partner institutions. Marie Curie Fellows receive an extremely generous rate of pay, including mobility support, and together with the associated training events and placements this provides a unique opportunity for outstanding PhD candidates to study for their doctorates. Applicants at FORTH may also enroll at the University of Crete.

The REVAMMAD project will train 13 young researchers, across 10 partner sites, in 6 European countries (France, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, and Greece). The positions have all been advertised on the European Commission Euraxess website in: http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/33850901

The Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (ICS-FORTH) will host the subproject Hypertension, which is related to the “Measurement of retinal microcirculation for the early diagnosis of hypertension and the assessment of its treatment”. At the time of recruitment by the beneficiary , the researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to his/her recruitment under the project. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account. Early stage researcher means a researcher who at the time of recruitment by the beneficiary, has not yet been awarded the doctorate degree and is in the first 4 years (full time equivalent) of his/her research career.

The project aims to provide novel diagnostic tools for the assessment of microcirculation, based on retinal image analysis that models symptoms of hypertension on the retinal microvasculatory system. Its objectives are to:

• develop anatomically aware algorithms for automatic identification of retinal vessels for clinical parameters related to hypertension,
• develop reliable algorithms for automatic registration of retinal images acquired at different time periods (follow up examinations),
• compare dimensions and clinical parameters in healthy and hypertensive patients, in order to provide a predictive test for hypertension from retinal images, and
• develop software towards a user-platform that facilitates diagnostic procedure.

In this context the successful applicant will be involved in the development of software that extracts clinical parameters from vessels, and correlates them with hypertension and, also, registers retinal images in order to assess variations of these parameters along time.

Applicants must have:

• a MSc degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field,
• good programming skills (including C/C++ and MATLAB),
• experience in computer vision, or image processing, or medical image processing and, preferably, in retinal image processing,
• english communication skills.

Contact person for ICS-FORTH:

Xenophon Zabulis, Principal Researcher

Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
N. Plastira 100, GR-700 13 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Phone: +30 2810391696
Fax: +30 2810391601

Email: zabulis@ics.forth.gr

Webpage: http://www.ics.forth.gr/~zabulis/

Institution: Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Start date: Immediately after the signature of the contract
Duration: 1-3 years
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Date of Announcement: September, 2012
Description:

A 3-year Graduate Research Assistant position in the areas of Computer Architecture and/or Parallel Algorithms, to start in 2012-2013, is now available in the CARV Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, at FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The position is associated with the project “GreenVM”, funded by the NSRF. The position addresses early stage researchers willing to pursue graduate studies at a University (e.g. Univ. of Crete).

The goal of the project is to develop a Java Virtual Machine for manycore non cache coherent architectures. Specifically, research will involve the design and implementation of a library of locality-conscious concurrent data structures built on top of such architectures, and/or power-aware metrics and counters which will be used to evaluate the energy efficiency of the system.

Candidates are expected to have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent, and a broad range of skills including understanding of theoretical computer science, good programming skills, language implementation skills, and fluency in English.

Applicants must submit the following documents:

• Detailed Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of purpose
• Official transcripts of grades from all academic institutions of higher education listed in his/her application, certified copies of degrees, or/and certifications of fulfilment of the required obligations for entering a graduate programme
• Copies of titles in English language
• Names of three referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation letters
• Copies of any research papers or other significant work by the applicant

Links:
FORTH-ICS: http://www.ics.forth.gr
CARV: http://www.ics.forth.gr/carv/index.html

For more information or to apply, please contact:

Prof. Panagiota Fatourou
Foundation for Reasearch and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Institute of Computer Science (ICS)
N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton
GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Email: faturu AT ics DOT forth DOT gr
Tel.: +30 2810 391727

Institution: Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Start date: January 1st 2013
Duration: 1-3 years
Location: Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece
Date of Announcement: September, 2012
Description:

A 3-year Graduate Research Assistant position in the areas of Programming Languages and Parallelism, to start in 2012-2013, is now available in the CARV Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, at FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The position is associated with the project “GreenVM”, funded by the NSRF. The position addresses early stage researchers willing to pursue graduate studies at a University (e.g. Univ. of Crete).

The goal of the project is to develop a Java Virtual Machine for manycore non cache coherent architectures. Specifically, research will involve a JVM implementation, building bare-metal runtime to manage scheduling and memory traffic, porting and testing benchmarks, measuring the energy efficiency of the system, developing formal semantics for the VM and studying its theoretical properties.

Candidates are expected to have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent, and a broad range of skills including understanding of theoretical computer science, good programming skills, language implementation skills, and fluency in English.

Applicants must submit the following documents:

• Detailed Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of purpose
• Official transcripts of grades from all academic institutions of higher education listed in his/her application, certified copies of degrees, or/and certifications of fulfilment of the required obligations for entering a graduate programme
• Copies of titles in English language
• Names of three referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation letters
• Copies of any research papers or other significant work by the applicant

Links:
FORTH-ICS: http://www.ics.forth.gr
CARV: http://www.ics.forth.gr/carv/index.html

For more information or to apply, please contact:

Dr. Polyvios Pratikakis
Foundation for Reasearch and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Institute of Computer Science (ICS)
N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton
GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Email: polyvios@ics.forth.gr
Tel.: +30 2810 391949

The Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (ICS-FORTH) announces one Graduate Research Assistant position in the area of Telecommunications and Networks to start in 2012-2013. The position addresses early stage researchers willing to pursue graduate studies at the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete. The Department of Computer Science, University of Crete maintains a strong collaboration with the ICS-FORTH. The duration of the appointment for this graduate research assistant position is 1 year with possibility of extending to 3 years.

We would like to invite motivated and talented candidates to apply for this position, which is fully funded by the CoRLAB project, a GSRT research excellence, investigator-driven grant. Research topics include wireless networking, software-defined radios, and geo-databases. The areas of wireless access and spectrum markets, software-defined radios, and user-centric networking are rapidly evolving, opening exciting possibilities for research.

Required Qualifications:
Candidates are expected to have a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent, and a broad range of skills including an in-depth understanding of computer networks, very good programming skills, and fluency in English.

Applicants must submit the following documents:

• Detailed Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of purpose
• Official transcripts of grades from all academic institutions of higher education listed in his/her application, certified copies of degrees, or/and certifications of fulfillment of the required obligations for entering a graduate programme
• Copies of titles in English language
• Names of three referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation letters
• Copies of any research papers or other significant work by the applicant

Additional information about the positions:
Email to Prof. Maria Papadopouli

The Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) announces one position for an engineer/developer/programmer with competitive salary in the area of wireless networks.

Research topics include wireless networking, software-defined radios, and geo-databases.

We would like to invite motivated candidates to apply for this position, which is fully funded by the CoRLAB project, a GSRT research excellence,investigator-driven grant.

Required Qualifications:
The position require an in-depth understanding of wireless networks and strong programming and systems development expertise. Candidates should have a M.Sc. (or be near completion) in a relevant field. Experience on security, databases, and geographical information systems will be a plus.

Employment:
The successful candidate will be offered a contract for one year (with the possibility of renewal). The position can start immediately. Competitive salary.

Application:
Interested candidates should submit by email a curriculum vitae, with an emphasis and detailed description of their programming/development skills and experience, and two references. The consideration of the applications will start immediately.

Additional information about the position:
Email to Prof. Maria Papadopouli
http://www.ics.forth.gr/mobile/

The Telecommunications and Networks Lab of the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) announces 3 Positions for Postdoctoral Researchers with competitive salary in the area of wireless networks. Research topics include spectrum and wireless access markets, software-defined radios, spectrum geo-databases, QoE in wireless networks, and network economics.

We would like to invite talented and motivated candidates to apply for these post-doctoral positions, which are fully funded by the CoRLAB project, a GSRT research excellence, investigator-driven grant.

Required Qualifications:

The positions require an in-depth understanding of wireless networks and communications. In addition, the candidates should have a strong background in at least one of the following areas:

• systems development
• network economics
• mathematical modeling and performance analysis (e.g., game-theory, queuing theory, stochastic networks)

Candidates should have a PhD (or be near completion) in a relevant field.

Employment:

The successful postdoctoral candidates will be offered a contract for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. The first two positions will start within 2012/2013. The third will start within 2013/2014. Competitive salary.

Application:

Interested candidates should submit by email a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a list of three references, and their two most significant scientific publications to Prof. Maria Papadopouli (mgp@ics.forth.gr).

The consideration of the applications will start immediately.

Additional information about the positions:
Email to Prof. Maria Papadopouli (mgp@ics.forth.gr)