With about 20,000 students, 2,000 employees, including 1,200 academic positions, the University of Siegen is an innovative institution emphasizing interdisciplinary orientation. Consisting in a broad spectrum of departments, from liberal arts, social sciences, and economics to natural sciences and engineering, the University of Siegen provides an outstanding teaching and research environment with numerous inter/transdisciplinary research projects.

The Chairs for Embedded Systems and Knowledge-based Systems, Department for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Faculty IV at University of Siegen are accepting applications for

Four PhD Positions
(salary category TV-L 13, 50%)

for a duration of 3 years.

Job description:

This position will enable a student to complete his/her doctoral degree.

We expect:

• Development of models and algorithms for diagnosis of distributed embedded real-time systems based on semantic web services
• Development of algorithms for distributed knowledge management using techniques of machine learning
• Development of algorithms for real-time scheduling of diagnostic queries and query transformation in distributed databases
• Modelling, implementation and evaluation of use cases with time-triggered networks
• Contribution to teaching in study programs mechatronics/computer science and administrative duties
• Completion of PhD

Your profile:

• Master's degree or a diploma in computer science or electrical engineering
• Basic knowledge in networks, distributed systems, real-time systems, databases and knowledge-based systems
• Programming skills in C, C++
• Very good English language skills
• Knowledge about methods for scheduling and optimization (desired)
• Knowledge about query transformation (desired)
• Experience in machine learning (desired)

The University of Siegen is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. The University facilitates viable combination of professional and family needs. For candidates with equal qualification, preference will be given to people with physical disabilities.

Contact for further information:

Prof. Roman Obermaisser and Prof. Madjid Fathi
Tel. 0271/7403332, email: roman.obermaisser@uni-siegen.de and fathi@informatik.uni-siegen.de 

Please send your application documents (resume, copies of diplomas and certificates) in duplicate until 08.06.2016 with reference number 2016/Fak.IV/ETI/WM/102 to the following address:  Prof. Roman Obermaisser, Universität Siegen, 57068 Siegen, Germany.

Information on the University of Siegen is available online: www.uni-siegen.de.