Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has three vacancies in the Database Architectures research group for talented
PhD students in the areas of Big Data Management and Analysis Architectures and Data Science Engineering Technologies.
Job description
One position is funded by the CIMPLO ("Cross-Industry Predictive Maintenance Optimization Platform") project, a public-private partnership project supported by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); cf.,
The project is a co-operation between the Natural Computing group of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) at Leiden University, the Database Architectures research group at CWI (where this position will be based), KLM Engineering & Maintenance, and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH.
The second position is funded by a project in co-operation with CWI's Stochastics research group and a Dutch governmental institution.
The third position is funded by CWI internal budget, and could possibly also become a post-doc rather than a PhD student position.
Requirements
Candidates are required to have a Master’s degree in computer science (or a five-year diploma). Specialization in data management (preferred), software engineering, or distributed systems is a pre-requisite. Preferable qualifications for candidates include proven research talent, system development and programming skills (in particular in C), practical experience in using *and developing* database technology, as well as an excellent command of English, and good academic writing and presentation skills.
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