Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, School of Computer Science and Information Technology

19 Months, Fixed-Term, Whole-time Post

Position Summary

Applications are invited for a Senior Post-Doctoral position at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, to work on a collaborative project with an industry partner, and on Insight Platform Research. In addition, the researcher may contribute to various other collaborative research projects as they arise with Industry Partners and/or EU Consortium Partners. The nature and structure of the phase 2 SFI Research Centre programme allows for Post-Doctoral researchers to work and gain valuable experience in a varied & research rich environment where you may gain experience working with SME’s, MNC’s, H2020 projects as well as basic platform research within the Insight Centre for Data Analytics programme. The specific collaborative project with industry is to continue a line of research developing machine learning and data analytics techniques to model the dynamic response of specific technical equipment as operated by a human operator. The Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics (http://www.Insight-centre.org) is an SFI funded Research Centre that brings together researchers from University College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, and Dublin City University, as well as other partner institutions, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University of Limerick (UL), Maynooth University (MU) and Tyndall National Institute. In UCC, the Insight Centre for Data Analytics sits in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology.

Project Title: Insight - Human-Machine Performance Modelling

Post Duration: 19 Months

Salary: €51,677 - €56,203 (IUA PD2 Salary Scale)

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

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Ken Brown, Prof, CSIT 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, 17th May 2024. 

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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