Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Engineering and Architecture

18 Months, Fixed-Term, Whole-time Post

Position Summary

Applications are invited for a position of Post-doctoral Researcher within the School of Engineering and Architecture.

In the light of road maintenance and transportation sustainability, this project will develop a novel low-cost sensing technology for semi-live road pavement monitoring using smartphones installed in vehicles. Technically, road surface defects may cause vehicle ‘bumping’. The induced-vibration can then be captured by accelerometer and gyroscope sensors embedded in smartphones together with GPS location coordinates. The smartphone data gathered will be analysed using cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to detect road pavement defects at the community level.

Post Duration: 18 months

Salary: €41,207- €47,477 p.a. (IUA PD1 Salary Scale)

Project: ‘Road Phone’ - Road pavement condition monitoring using smartphone sensing at the community level

For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/.

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Dr Zili Li, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in School of Engineering and Architecture, Email: [email protected].

Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to [email protected], quoting the job-title and project name.

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday, 20 January 2023. No late applications will be accepted.

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector.

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