Research Fellow (Postdoctoral)

Post Status: Specific Purpose Contract – Full Time

Research Group / Department / School:  Discipline of Networks and Distributed Systems / School of Computer Science and Statistics

Location: Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland

Salary: Commensurate with experience and achievement on the SFI Team Member Budget Scale (October 2024) Post Doctoral Researcher Level 2A/B (range of €44,847-€55,740)

Reports to: Prof. Vinny Cahill

Hours of work: 39 hours per week

Closing Date: 17:00 (BST) on Monday 16^th of September 2024. Late applications will be considered if the post remains unfilled.

Post Summary

We are seeking to recruit a post-doctoral research fellow to investigate protocols for cooperative behaviour planning that are both reliable and locally consistent and to determine their impact on the performance of safety-critical Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) applications under lossy wireless and mixed traffic conditions as part of the Coordinate project within CONNECT - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications.

Emerging wireless communication technologies and standards offer the promise of ultra-reliable and low-latency (URLL) communication. At the same time, the expected widespread deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) offers the promise of safer and more efficient vehicular traffic. Delivering this promise will require new road traffic management algorithms that are enabled by and rely on URLL communication. However, notwithstanding the enhanced quality of service expected to be delivered by emerging protocols, novel safety-critical applications will nevertheless be vulnerable to a range of failure modes induced by delay and message loss, even if only at higher percentiles. This has two specific consequences for C-ITS applications. Firstly, they will sometimes need to adopt fail safe behaviours in the presence of communications failures and secondly, and consequently, these applications will potentially suffer impaired performance. Particularly vulnerable are likely to be applications that rely on mutually consistent behaviour, for example, vehicles crossing an intersection or those merging onto a highway.

The successful candidate is expected to make contributions to the state of the art in URLL vehicular communication supporting coordination and consensus.

The position will be based in the CONNECT Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin under the direction of Prof. Vinny Cahill and Dr. Melanie Bouroche working in close collaboration with colleagues at University College Cork under the direction of Dr. Aisling O’ Driscoll. For informal inquiries contact vinny.cahill@tcd.ie.

Required Qualifications

The successful candidate must have a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a closely related field.  An established track record of publication in leading journals/conferences on topics relevant to Coordinate is also essential.

Application Procedure

Please send applications by email to vinny.cahill@tcd.ie quoting “Coordinate Fellowship” in the subject line, containing three PDF files as follows:

• (1) a cover letter,
• (2) a curriculum vitae (giving details of qualifications and experience, including transcripts of degrees, a description of your contribution to relevant project work, identifying your three most-significant publications relevant to the Coordinate project, and the names and contact details of two referees),
• (3) a 1-2 page research proposal outlining how you might address the research goals of Coordinate and how this extends the state of the art.

Please do not provide other documents, documents in other formats, or include any substantive information in the body of your email.

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