Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, Fixed-term employment, four years full-time PhD studies;
Extent: 100 %;
Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Johanneberg – Göteborg;
First day of employment: As agreed;
Reference number: UR 2013/259.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology announces two PhD positions within the research project Reliable Multilingual Digital Communication: Methods and Applications (REMU) funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
The CSE Department provides a strong, international, and dynamic research environment with about 70 faculty and 70 PhD students from about 30 countries. The PhD positions are located jointly in two research groups: Language Technology and Formal Methods. The PhD supervisors will be professors from these groups: Aarne Ranta (REMU principal scientist), Koen Claessen, and Gerardo Schneider.
Job assignments
REMU builds on the unique joint competence of the Department in the areas of language technology, formal methods, and functional programming. Its objective is to develop methods for high-quality machinetranslation, formal verification, reasoning, and information retrieval of missioncritical documents such as contracts and legal texts. Building on formalized interlingual representations (abstract syntax), the REMU project will targetapplications in several parallel languages. The research problems range from fundamental language-theoretic questions (e.g. ambiguity detection) to practicalsystem building (e.g. an editor by which end users can build multilingual webpages). In the mid ground, the project has topics in grammar engineering, theorem proving, software testing methodology, and logical modelling. The PhD student positions are open for students with a Masters degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related field. Their PhD topics will be selected on an individual basis from the task defined in REMU’s research plan.
The positions are for five years, with a start between 1 June and 31 December 2013, as agreed with the selected holders of the positions. The PhD students will work 20% of their time in teaching and other departmental duties. PhD students get a regular full-time salary, sufficient for a small family to live in Gothenburg.
Eligibility
The qualifications for education on a doctoral level are: degree in advanced level, at least 240 university points, of which 60 are on an advanced level, or in an other way acquired similar knowledge.
An applicant to the positions must have graduated with a Masters degree before the start of the PhD studies. But at the time of application, it is enough to have a realistic plan leading to a degree so that the studies can start before the end of 2013.
The following qualifications, if reported as a part of the application, will be used for assessing the candidates:
- Masters thesis (at least a draft), in an area related to REMU;
- publications, in an area related to REMU;
- programming skills, in particular, functional programming;
- mathematical skills, in particular, formal languages, logic, statistics;
- extensive language skills, and/or knowledge of linguistics;
- work experience from demanding software projects;
- recommendations, from the Masters supervisor and/or other persons in areas related REMU;
Assessment
As a holder of the position you must first be accepted to postgraduate level. The candidates will be selected from among the ability to benefit from the research education. In addition to pursuing its own research studies it may be required to perform duties relating to education, research and administration, according to the specific regulations.
Additional information
Following documents should be included in the applications:
- CV;
- attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents, English language test, e.g. TOEFL score;
- letters of recommendation from academic institutions and/or previous employers;
- details of your specific qualifications for the position;
- list of publications;
- relevant work such as bachelor’s or master’s thesis (or outline of a thesis under preparation).
For further information please contact:
Aarne Ranta, Professor
+46 31 772 1082
aarne@chalmers.se
Koen Claessen, Assistant head of department
+46 31 772 5424
koen@chalmers.se
Gerardo Schneider, Associate professor
+46 31 772 6073
gersch@chalmers.se
Closing date: 2013-05-13
