Stillingstittel: PhD Research Fellowships (Ref. 2016/7311)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.PhD Research Fellowships, 1 or 2 positions, and 1 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the CESAR Project

The Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMMS) Group at the Department of Informatics (IFI) at the University of Oslo (UiO) seeks well qualified applicants for 1-2 PhD research fellowships and 1 Postdoctoral/Researcher fellowship in the CESAR project.

Within the framework of the position duties might be assigned such as course administration and teaching, master student supervision, and facilitation of seminars and workshops for PhD students. No one can be appointed as a PhD / Postdoc fellowship for more than one specified period at the same institution.

The position is funded through the CESAR project. The CESAR project performs interdisciplinary research (computer science and medicine) to enable monitoring of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) at home for everybody. Applications need to be aligned with the CESAR research themes and agendas (see CESAR proposal, proposal available on request).

Location: Blindern, Oslo, Norway; divided between Ifi/UiO and Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The candidate will be employed by Ifi/UiO and will also have workings tasks at OUH-Rikshospitalet (10 min. walk apart).

Duration: PhD fellowships - 3 years (or 4 years with 25% teaching obligations), Postdoctoral/Researcher fellowship – 26 months

Commencement: July 2016 or later

Job description

Modern smart phones and low-cost minimal invasive sensors are a promising platform to enable OSA monitoring at home. We aim to accommodate improved diagnosis of OSA by development of new software solutions using machine learning techniques to bridge state-of-the-art consumer electronic devices with appropriate sensors to supplement the classical polysomnography. We investigate the usefulness of supervised and unsupervised learning (data mining) techniques to identify interesting data patterns that might lead to new knowledge in OSA research and to support the design and engineering of the on-line analysis tool. The design of the on-line analysis tool is driven by the goal to enable individuals with limited computing skill to customize and personalize the on-line analysis.

In order to be qualified for these positions the candidate must document the ability to be able to produce research results on high scientific level. The candidate must document good knowledge and experience in the following CESAR-related topics:

• Database Systems and Data Mining
• Complex Event Processing
• Mobile Systems and their evaluation
• Operating Systems

CESAR is a research project with multiple Norwegian partners, and all project members will have close contact with patients at OUS for the data acquisition and evaluation. Therefore good Norwegian language skills are essential.

PhD details

The PhD candidates will be temporarily hired by The Department of Inforamtics for three years, or four years with 25% teaching obligations, admitted as a PhD student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UIO, as well as be integrated into the research group at OUH. As part of the academic training, the candidate must take courses totalling 30 credits, a min. of 5 of which must be a course in research ethics, academic theories and methods, the others to be chosen in conjunction with the candidate and supervisors.

Salary

Pay Grade 50 - 57, 430 500 - 483 700 NOK per year depending on qualifications and seniority.

PhD requirements<

Minstelønn: 0

Maksimal lønn: 0

Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Hvordan søke: Annet - se fritekst

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år