Research Associate/Research Fellow Position at University of South Australia
Working as part of a research group, the Research Associate/Fellow will focus on development of new frameworks for distributed storage systems including the design of distributed storage systems that integrate efficiency, security and sustainability. Outcomes of the project are expected to improve the performances of data storage applications, including file sharing, content distribution networks, and distributed sensing networks. The appointee will have the opportunity to be involved in supervision of research students and participate in a variety of research projects within Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR).

The University of South Australia is an enterprising and dynamic, outward-looking institution established in 1991, but built on more than 150 years of teaching, learning and research excellence of our antecedent institutions.   We are South Australia’s largest university, and continue to enjoy a strong upward trajectory across a number of key indicators and global rankings - we are ranked amongst the top 3% of universities worldwide and in the top 50 international universities under 50 years of age. 

The School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences is the largest information and communications technology provider in South Australia, and is regarded as one of the leading applied mathematics departments in Australia. We are also home to several research centres: The Advanced Computing Research Centre,   Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR) and Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre. All three have state-of-the-art facilities with world renowned links and associations that provide a dynamic teaching and research base for our students.

The successful candidate will have a PhD degree in a relevant discipline such as Information Engineering, Electronic or Electrical Engineering, an emerging record of research in relevant areas including but not limited to distributed data storage, coding and information theory, big-data, security and cryptography and a strong publication record.

For further information please contact Alison Harris on +61 8 8302 5485 or email [email protected] . For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA.

Applications close: 9.00am Monday 4 April 2016

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