we currently have two open PhD positions at the University of Vienna,
shared by the research group of Monika Henzinger and my group.
For more information, see below, and/or contact Monika or me directly.
Many thanks for distributing the email to interested students and
colleagues!
Monika and Stefan
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We are looking for two highly motivated and bright PhD students with a
strong expertise and interest in graph and network algorithms in
particular, and in theoretical computer science in general, to join our
team around our project on "Fast Algorithms for a Reactive Network Layer".
Traditionally and still today, communication networks are operated in a
rather static and conservative manner. This has good reasons: communication
networks constitute a critical infrastructure of our digital society, and
dynamic optimizations always come with risks of instabilities or even
outages. However, it is also known that in principle
a more dynamic network operation can greatly improve the efficiency of
networks: empirical studies show that communication traffic contains much
structure, i.e., it is bursty and skewed. More dynamic network operations
are also useful to support adaptive policy changes, service relocations, or
emerging "self-driving networks". This project is motivated by the desire
to leverage the benefits of more flexible network operations but without
sacrificing the reliability guarantees of more conservative operations. In
fact, we believe that a more adaptive network operation can even improve
the dependability of a network.
We aim to lay the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of more adaptive
networks, using algorithmic tools from dynamic graph algorithms,
approximation algorithms, online algorithms and distributed algorithms. In
addition to our theoretical contributions, we also aim to show the
practical importance of our approaches (possibly in collaboration with an
Internet Service Provider).
The positions are 30h/week and shared by the research groups "Theory and
Applications of Algorithms", led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger, and
"Communication Technologies", led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid. Both
research groups are internationally well-known and received ERC grants in
the past.
For more information, please contact Prof. Henzinger and Prof. Schmid by
email.
The application submission is handled online under
https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/jobs-recruiting/job-center/ but you
can also submit your application material by an email addressed to both
professors.
--
Stefan Schmid
Professor, Computer Science
University of Vienna, Austria
Research Group: https://ct.cs.univie.ac.at/
Personal: https://www.univie.ac.at/ct/stefan/
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