Assistant Professor in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems

The Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) is aiming to strengthen, expand, and renew its international competences through new recruitments. We are looking for excellent candidates with a proven track record of ground breaking scientific research, a challenging and innovative research program, and a commitment to higher education. As part of this initiative, we are offering a tenure-track assistant professor position for a period of 6 years, leading to a permanent position assuming excellent performance. During the tenure track, the candidate will have the opportunity to develop into an internationally acknowledged and recognized academic. To this aim, we offer a structured career and personal development program.

Focus areas

This new position is expected focus on some of the following (non-exhaustive list of) topics to complement existing research efforts at the department:

• Multi-agent and mixed human-machine decision networks
• Quantum control theory and applications
• Model-reduction of large-scale and networked systems
• Nonlinear dynamical networks with potential applications in social and biological networks, biomedical devices, telecommunications, and smart infrastructure

The successful candidate will be part of the Networked Cyber-Physical Systems group at DCSC, whose research efforts are aimed at improving our understanding and control of cyber-physical systems composed of a large number of interconnected and embedded components. Such networks of systems contain a huge number of sensors and actuators that generate a tremendous amount of data to be processed in real-time in order to increase the autonomy of the participating entities, or accomplish a high level of automation. The scientific challenges currently pursued by the team are of multidisciplinary nature, and include the following topics and applications:

• Distributed decision-making, control, estimation, and optimization for large-scale systems
• Control over wireless sensor/actuator networks
• Embedded real-time optimization-based control and estimation under uncertainty and information constraints
• Anomaly detection, fault diagnosis/estimation, and cyber-secure reconfigurable control
• Parallel, asynchronous, event-triggered computation for autonomous decision-making
• Correct-by-design synthesis of embedded control software, formal verification
• Current application areas: distributed and cooperative robotic networks, multi-vehicle systems, aeronautical, space, and automotive applications, thermal-, electricity-, and water-networks and smart energy systems, smart buildings, agricultural systems, and high-tech manufacturing systems

The department Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) of the faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, coordinates the education and research activities in systems and control at Delft University of Technology. The Centers' research mission is to conduct fundamental research in systems dynamics and control, involving dynamic modelling, advanced control theory, optimisation and signal analysis. The research is motivated by advanced technology development in physical imaging systems, renewable energy, robotics and transportation systems.