Research Studentship for PhD student - (BL35/2024_IST-ID)

22 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento _IST-ID

Department

DRH

Research Field

Engineering » Electrical engineering

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

7 Mar 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Not Applicable

Job Status

Not Applicable

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

European Union / Next Generation EU

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Applications are open for 1 Research Studentship for a PhD student, within the framework of project SmartRetail (SMART RETAIL - Contrato 00018 - IST-ID) financed by national funds PRR (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência - C645440011-00000062), through IAPMEI -Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação

Workplan: The work concerns the development of methods for handling data significantly corrupted by outliers. The methods are to be based on an optimization problem that fits a parametric model to a dataset up to a pre-specified number of data points, which corresponds to the expected number of inliers. The optimization problem relies on a non-convex loss function that gauges the merit of fit, not by the largest model residual that a parameter yields, but by its (L+1)th largest residual, where L is the anticipated number of outliers. This  approach essentially erases L data points from the dataset, such tentatively excluded groups varying from model parameter to model parameter. The work focus on addressing this challenging non-convex optimization problem either via exact methods or via approximate, yet competitive, ones, and showcase their usefulness in deriving robust solutions to real-world applications.

Duration: The research fellowship will have the duration of 6 months. It is expected to begin March 2024 and may be eventually renewed.

It is mandatory to formalize applications with the submission of the following documents:

i) B1 Form – Fellowship application (https://ist-id.pt/concursos/bolsas/ );

ii) Curriculum Vitae;

iii)Academic degree certificate ;

iv) Proof of enrollment at a PhD;

v) Motivation letter;

Applications must be submitted to https://drive.sipg.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/s/bolsaSipg :  Collect all documents in a single zip file and upload it to the link.

 

Requirements

Research Field

Engineering » Electrical engineering

Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Admission Requirements: To be enrolled at a PhD.

Additional Information
Benefits

Monthly maintenance allowance: According to the values for Research Fellowships awarded by FCT in Portugal (https://www.fct.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Tabela-de-Valores-SMM_2023.pdf ), the amount of the monthly maintenance allowance is 1199,64€, being the payment method an option of the Fellow by Wire Transfer.

Eligibility criteria

Admission Requirements: To be enrolled at a PhD.

Selection process

Selection methods: The selection criteria are as follows: 1) Curriculum evaluation (60%); 2) Expertise in Signal Processing,  Theory of Optimization and Distributed Processing (40%). There may be a possible individual interview, eliminatory in nature, to be used only if the previous selection methods are not enough for a decision.

 

Composition of the selection Jury: Professors João Paulo Costeira, João Xavier and João Pedro Gomes.

 

Announcement/ notification of the results: The final evaluation results will be communicated to all applicants by email.

 

Deadlines and procedures of complaint and appeal. A complaint may be lodged from the final decision within 15 working days, or an appeal to the Executive Board of IST-ID within 30 working days, both counted from the respective notification.

Additional comments

Legislation and Regulations: Statute of Scientific Research Fellow, approved by Law nr. 40/2004, of August 18, as worded by Decree-Law nr. 123/2019, of August 28; FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships, available on https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019.pdf and https://dre.pt/application/file/a/127230968 .

 

Workplace: The work will be developed at Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica of Instituto Superior Técnico, under the scientific supervision of Professor João Xavier.

Website for additional job details

https://ist-id.pt/concursos/bolsas/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

IST-ID

Country

Portugal

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://drive.sipg.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/s/bolsaSipg

Contact

City

Lisbon

Website

http://ist-id.pt/

Street

Av. Rovisco Pais

Postal Code

1049-001 Lisboa

STATUS: EXPIRED