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Six Research Assistant or Research Associate Posts
Projects are in distributed, mobile and pervasive systems
Department of Computing

Fixed Term for up to 3 years

Research Assistant: UK Pounds 24,570 - 27,320 per annum
Research Associate: UK Pounds 28,060 - 35,800 per annum
Note: There will be a 3% salary increase in May 2008

Imperial College is ranked in the top five universities of the world,
according to the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement league tables.
The Department of Computing is a leading department of Computer
Science among the UK Universities. It has consistently been awarded
the highest research rating (5*) in Research Assessment Exercises and
was rated as "Excellent" in the previous national assessment of
teaching quality.

We have a number of exciting new positions to work on projects in
distributed, mobile and pervasive systems.  Applicants with a
research background in the following areas will be preferred:

*  Security, trust and privacy.
*  Programming techniques for mobile phones, wireless sensors,
    RFID, vehicles.
*  Location and context-awareness. Self-organising systems.
*  Formal methods for analysis, planning and refinement in
    rule-based systems.
*  Policy specification and enforcement.
*  Systems and network management, workflow management systems
*  Data management.
*  Machine learning and decision support.

The posts will be split between three projects, funded by EPSRC and
the EU and the aim of the posts is to produce independent and
original research relating to aspects of security, trust, privacy,
mobile and pervasive systems.  You will also be expected to produce
software and reports as indicated in the project deliverables.

The three projects are listed below and more information about the
Distributed Software Engineering group can be found here:
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/moin.cgi

*    Data dissemination and usage control for large cross-domain
distributed systems.  The project is in collaboration with Microsoft,
HP and BAE systems and starts January 2008.
See http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Consequence

*    Security, trust and privacy for adaptive pervasive workflows. The
project is in collaboration with 4 European universities and starts
February 2008.
See http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/AllowProject

*    Privacy rights management for mobile systems. The project is in
collaboration with the Open University and IBM Research Labs New York
and starts April 2008.
See http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PrimmaProject

Research Associate applicants will have a PhD in Computer Science and
Research Assistants will have a Masters Degree in Computer Science at
Distinction Level or equivalent with high grades in relevant courses
and projects. Research Assistants may also register for a PhD if
admitted onto the PhD programme.  All applicants must be fluent in
spoken and written English. The posts will be for a period of up to 3
years and based at the South Kensington campus.

Applications must include the following:-
*    A College application form, which can be obtained from
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/applicationformchairreaderclinlecresearch
*    State job reference number DSE-1107 A full CV.  Describe your
research experience and indicate any publications that can be
downloaded or requested.
*    Applicants for Research Assistant posts must provide full
transcript of Masters and Undergraduate courses taken.
*    A 2-3 page research statement describing what you see as
interesting research issues and why your expertise is relevant.

Applications should be sent to:

Bridget Gundry,
Department of Computing,
Imperial College London,
South Kensington Campus,
London, SW7 2AZ, UK

Email: bridget.gundry@...
Fax:    +44 (0) 20 7581 8024

Closing date 1 January 2008

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