PhD Studentships in Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Imperial College London

UK. Three years PhD studentships are currently being offered by Department of Computing. The studentships will be commenced in October to work on topics at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and database research. It covers fees and a tax-free bursary with London weighting.

The PhD studentship, under the supervision of Dr Peter Pietzuch, will be part of the DISSP project on dependable Internet-scale stream processing. The aim of the project is to investigate new approaches for reliably processing stream data from thousands of sensor networks at a global scale.

In addition to the completion of a PhD thesis, you will be expected to produce research publications and design, build, deploy and experiment with large-scale distributed software prototypes. For further information on the DISSP project, see http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~prp/research/dissp.

You will be part of the Distributed Software Engineering (DSE) Research Group within the Department and based at the South Kensington campus. For further information on the group and related projects, see http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk. Informal enqueries can be directed to: Dr Peter Pietzuch (prp@doc.ic.ac.uk).

All applicants should have at least a distinction or first in a Masters level degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science. Previous experience in large-scale distributed systems, peer-to-peer computing or stream processing would be advantageous. Applicants must be fluent in spoken and written English. See here for further information on the PhD degree.

Only UK and European Union nationals are eligible. An ideal candidate will have research interests in the following areas:

• Internet-scale distributed systems
• Overlay networks, peer-to-peer computing and wide-area networking
• Distributed stream processing
• Large-scale data management and distributed databases

Applications must include the following:-

• A detailed CV that includes names and addresses of three referees.
• A 2-3 page research statement with a compelling description of the research that you would like to do and any relevant experience that you have.
• Transcripts of all degree results.

Applications should be sent to:-

Bridget Gundry
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London, SW7 2AZ
Email: bridget.gundry@imperial.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7581 8024

Closing Date: 18 May 2008