Stillingstittel:
Professor/Associate Professor in Big Data Cybernetics

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Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical EngineeringDepartment of Engineering Cybernetics

Jobbnorge ID: 127389

NTNU is establishing the world's first professorship in Big Data Cybernetics in collaboration with KONGSBERG, combining the fields of automatic control and multivariate data modelling. For the successful applicant, this represents a unique opportunity to play a central role in the development of a new interdisciplinary field. The position will be affiliated with the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU's Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering.

 

Information about the department

 

The Department of Engineering Cybernetics (Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk, ITK) has 17 full-time professors, 11 adjunct professors, about 10 postdocs and researchers as well as 70 PhD candidates. Approximately 100 MSc candidates graduate annually from the three study programs in cybernetics, which comprise about 650 students in total.

 

The research and educational activities at ITK include fundamental and industrially-oriented activities in areas such as automatic control and systems theory, estimation and optimization, cyber-physical systems, autonomous unmanned vehicles, robotics, ships and marine systems, process control, smart grids, offshore renewable energy, automated drilling, fisheries and aquaculture, medical technology, safety-critical systems, embedded and real-time systems, systems engineering and instrumentation.

 

The department is involved in numerous research projects and centers, including the Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (NTNU AMOS). ITK's research activities are growing and we wish to strengthen our capability and capacity in strategically important fields.

 

Job description

 

In today's science and technology, the spatial, temporal and property-profile domains are often handled by different academic disciplines. However, real-world systems have spatial extent, temporal dynamics and a variety of physical properties. Modern measurement devices increasingly allow us to link these domains, which can provide us with deeper understanding, better control and new opportunities. However, the rapid increase in the amount of data currently poses a major challenge which requires a corresponding increase in our ability to interpret and make sense of this "big data". Many approaches to handling big data are based on black-box methods which may not be intuitive or transparent for human interpretation. Using such methods, humans are not included in the data modelling process and thus also risk being pushed out of the data analysis and decision-making processes.

 

To address this challenge, a new interdisciplinary field called "Big Data Cybernetics" is proposed, combining methods from automatic control and multivariate data modelling in order to discover systematic structures in the spatial, temporal and property-profile domains, and to convert these structures into quantitative, human-interpretable information. For example, the two fields of cybernetics and chemometrics have both developed successful, but quite different modelling tools. While the former focuses on modelling and control in the time domain, the latter focuses on multi

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: O.S. Bragstads plass 2D 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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