Post-doctoral researcher in Human-centric Software Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Services Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Research Platform on Smart Services for Digitalisation

Post-doctoral researcher in Human-centric Software Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Services, DIGI-USER Platform Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). LUT’s Trailblazer strategy is searching for answers to four key questions: Are we going to burn up everything? Is humanity condemned to suffer from the water it has polluted? Will waste be the grave of our future? Will we let Europe degenerate to the world’s back yard? No. We will lead the way with a trailblazer spirit. We are compact by size, with intensely focused operations. Combining technology and business, we have served as an academic forerunner since 1969. Our international science community encompasses 6,500 students and experts. DIGI-USER – LUT Research Platform on Smart Services for Digitalisation Digital infrastructures provide both a wealth of data and opportunities for developing new services and optimizing related processes. The active role of users in digital service development and management is at the core of our work in the LUT Research Platform on Smart Services for Digitalisation. Our user-centric approach to systemic issues combines macro, meso, and micro levels. Our aim is, through research, to reveal problems, needs, barriers and solutions, and help companies (especially small and medium-sized enterprises) to co-create smart services with users to be applied in various fields, such as energy systems and everyday living. The DIGI-USER Research Platform team is looking for an outstanding Post-doctoral researcher, having a strong commitment and the potential to support the DIGI-USER research agenda in Software Engineering, with a special focus on Human-centric Software Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Services. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), or smart systems, are emerging systems combining physical and digital/computational components. CPS and the underlying software infrastructure, including the Internet of Things, are laying the foundation for innovative services addressing the challenges we face today, such as homeland security, advanced manufacturing, healthcare accessibility, and environmental sustainability. An environmental observatory (also called a citizen observatory or participatory sensing platform) provides one inspiring example of how we will interact with data-intensive Cyber Physical Systems. It also illustrates the type of smart services needed not only to visually mine the big data collected via CPS, but also to co-create added value to businesses. We view Cyber Physical Systems as part of a broad approach to human-data interaction. We are proposing the creation of an open-source Cyber Physical Software Engineering Environment that will support a wider variety of interactions — human-data interaction, human-human interaction, and system-CPS interaction. This can assist in creating a new generation of smart services for human safety and environmental sustainability. Current software engineering, design methods, and tools need to be re-examined while dealing with the big picture of CPS design and engineering. More than before, design is front and centre in any type of CPS. The current research on CPS design and engineering is fragmented and scattered within diverse communities. Furthermore, the increasing complexity of today’s software-intensive systems and services make it more challenging for software engineers to meet the continuous customer demand for higher quality services. These issues have prompted us to take a more holistic approach to the design process, so that we better understand and promote well-known principles and practices, as well as the application of design and innovation methods. In addition to the research applications in the Cyber Physical Software Engineering Environment, the research aims are to define and validate a design approach for smart services and cyber physical systems in a Living Lab context. The approach used should be to bring together an interdisciplinary team of stakeholders, including end-users, to design, develop, deploy, and test — in actual living/working spaces — new software technologies, all the while identifying and applying the best design, engineering and innovation practices. LUT possesses two Living Labs, which have demonstrated their powerfulness in various fields, such as mobile ICT and socio-technical systems. ----- Applicants are expected to hold a doctoral degree in one of the following: Software Engineering, Human-computer Interaction, Design Sciences, or the equivalent; and to have expertise in at least one of the following areas: • Human-driven software engineering • Human-data interaction in Cyber Physical Systems • Software design theories, patterns and methods • Living Lab as a platform for engineering smart services • User/empirical research • Software development APIs and environments for mobile and Web services Post-doctoral researchers are required to possess 1) the capability to perform independent scientific work, and 2) the teaching skills needed for the performance of the duties. Qualified candidates are also expected to have extensive international and multidisciplinary research experience. We appreciate candidates who bring with them evidence of high-quality publications, experiences in applying for external funding, and active involvement in the scientific community. The employment relationship of the post-doctoral researcher is fixed-term. The duration of the first term is one year with a four-month probation period, after which the university has the option to continue the employment relationship for three years. The pay will be determined in accordance with the pay system for university teaching and research staff. The job grade of a postdoctoral researcher is 5–6 (2865.30-3340.77 EUR/month). In addition, the salary will include an individual pay component based on performance and competence, amounting to a maximum of 46.3% of the job-specific pay component. The closing date for application is April 1, 2016 (at midnight, Finnish local time, UTC +3 h). Please submit your application online (click on the link below) with the following appendices: • A detailed CV • A list of publications, including ongoing papers under review • A teaching portfolio • A copy of your doctoral degree certificate. If the original documents are not in English, Finnish or Swedish, each document must be accompanied by an official certified translation into English or Finnish. • A research statement (max 2 pages) addressing how your qualifications and experience match the requirements of the position. Further questions regarding the position may be addressed to Professor Ahmed Seffah, Software Engineering, LUT School of Business and Management, ahmed.seffah@lut.fi, +358 50 4112015. General questions regarding the DIGI-USER Platform may be addressed to the director of the Platform, Professor Helinä Melkas, via email at helina.melkas@lut.fi, or via telephone at +358 40 588 1400. Starting date: As soon as possible If you apply for this position please say you saw it on Computeroxy Apply

Post-doctoral researcher in Human-centric Software Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Services, DIGI-USER Platform

Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). LUT’s Trailblazer strategy is searching for answers to four key questions: Are we going to burn up everything? Is humanity condemned to suffer from the water it has polluted? Will waste be the grave of our future? Will we let Europe degenerate to the world’s back yard? No. We will lead the way with a trailblazer spirit. We are compact by size, with intensely focused operations. Combining technology and business, we have served as an academic forerunner since 1969. Our international science community encompasses 6,500 students and experts.

DIGI-USER – LUT Research Platform on Smart Services for Digitalisation

Digital infrastructures provide both a wealth of data and opportunities for developing new services and optimizing related processes. The active role of users in digital service development and management is at the core of our work in the LUT Research Platform on Smart Services for Digitalisation. Our user-centric approach to systemic issues combines macro, meso, and micro levels. Our aim is, through research, to reveal problems, needs, barriers and solutions, and help companies (especially small and medium-sized enterprises) to co-create smart services with users to be applied in various fields, such as energy systems and everyday living.

The DIGI-USER Research Platform team is looking for an outstanding

Post-doctoral researcher,

having a strong commitment and the potential to support the DIGI-USER research agenda in Software Engineering, with a special focus on Human-centric Software Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems and Smart Services.

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), or smart systems, are emerging systems combining physical and digital/computational components. CPS and the underlying software infrastructure, including the Internet of Things, are laying the foundation for innovative services addressing the challenges we face today, such as homeland security, advanced manufacturing, healthcare accessibility, and environmental sustainability. An environmental observatory (also called a citizen observatory or participatory sensing platform) provides one inspiring example of how we will interact with data-intensive Cyber Physical Systems. It also illustrates the type of smart services needed not only to visually mine the big data collected via CPS, but also to co-create added value to businesses.

We view Cyber Physical Systems as part of a broad approach to human-data interaction. We are proposing the creation of an open-source Cyber Physical Software Engineering Environment that will support a wider variety of interactions — human-data interaction, human-human interaction, and system-CPS interaction. This can assist in creating a new generation of smart services for human safety and environmental sustainability. Current software engineering, design methods, and tools need to be re-examined while dealing with the big picture of CPS design and engineering. More than before, design is front and centre in any type of CPS. The current research on CPS design and engineering is fragmented and scattered within diverse communities. Furthermore, the increasing complexity of today’s software-intensive systems and services make it more challenging for software engineers to meet the continuous customer demand for higher quality services. These issues have prompted us to take a more holistic approach to the design process, so that we better understand and promote well-known principles and practices, as well as the application of design and innovation methods.

In addition to the research applications in the Cyber Physical Software Engineering Environment, the research aims are to define and validate a design approach for smart services and cyber physical systems in a Living Lab context. The approach used should be to bring together an interdisciplinary team of stakeholders, including end-users, to design, develop, deploy, and test — in actual living/working spaces — new software technologies, all the while identifying and applying the best design, engineering and innovation practices. LUT possesses two Living Labs, which have demonstrated their powerfulness in various fields, such as mobile ICT and socio-technical systems.

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Applicants are expected to hold a doctoral degree in one of the following: Software Engineering, Human-computer Interaction, Design Sciences, or the equivalent; and to have expertise in at least one of the following areas:

• Human-driven software engineering
• Human-data interaction in Cyber Physical Systems
• Software design theories, patterns and methods
• Living Lab as a platform for engineering smart services
• User/empirical research
• Software development APIs and environments for mobile and Web services

Post-doctoral researchers are required to possess 1) the capability to perform independent scientific work, and 2) the teaching skills needed for the performance of the duties. Qualified candidates are also expected to have extensive international and multidisciplinary research experience. We appreciate candidates who bring with them evidence of high-quality publications, experiences in applying for external funding, and active involvement in the scientific community.

The employment relationship of the post-doctoral researcher is fixed-term. The duration of the first term is one year with a four-month probation period, after which the university has the option to continue the employment relationship for three years.

The pay will be determined in accordance with the pay system for university teaching and research staff. The job grade of a postdoctoral researcher is 5–6 (2865.30-3340.77 EUR/month). In addition, the salary will include an individual pay component based on performance and competence, amounting to a maximum of 46.3% of the job-specific pay component.

The closing date for application is April 1, 2016 (at midnight, Finnish local time, UTC +3 h). Please submit your application online (click on the link below) with the following appendices:

• A detailed CV
• A list of publications, including ongoing papers under review
• A teaching portfolio
• A copy of your doctoral degree certificate. If the original documents are not in English, Finnish or Swedish, each document must be accompanied by an official certified translation into English or Finnish.
• A research statement (max 2 pages) addressing how your qualifications and experience match the requirements of the position.

Further questions regarding the position may be addressed to Professor Ahmed Seffah, Software Engineering, LUT School of Business and Management, ahmed.seffah@lut.fi, +358 50 4112015. General questions regarding the DIGI-USER Platform may be addressed to the director of the Platform, Professor Helinä Melkas, via email at helina.melkas@lut.fi, or via telephone at +358 40 588 1400.

Starting date: As soon as possible

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