Global Software Development (GSD) project 1.1 Studies of GSD practices and processes
1.2 Activity-Based Computing infrastructure for collaboration in GSD
1.3 GSD SE Tool Suite
Intelligent Context Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living2.1 Seamless intergration
2.2 Pervasive service infrastructure
SIREN3.1 SIREN project
DemTech4.1 DemTech project has several open PhD positions
Relational Reasoning for Programs using Higher-Order Store5.1.Development of semantics techniques
War Room Technologies and Lean Activities in Global Engineering6.1 One Industrial PhD position
Open Call for Outstanding applicants7.1 For applicants with already established research
Global Software Development (GSD) project
As part of the Global Software Development (GSD) project, we are looking for three students:
1.1. Studies of GSD practices and processes. This PhD project focus on ethnographic field studies of GSD in practice, and using this insight to help design new technologies and practices for GSD. Your background should be within Ethnographic Studies, Work place studies, CSCW, and/or HCI and you will be associated within the Technologies in Practice group.
Contact person: Pernille Bjørn ITU Faculty Group: Technologies in Practice
1.2. Activity-Based Computing infrastructure for collaboration in GSD. This PhD project will research technologies and concepts for bridging distances in time, space, and culture in GSD with a focus on turning insights from real-life studies into the design of collaborative technology and conducting an evaluation of it. Your background should be within Software Engineering, CSCW, and/or Ubicomp and you will be associated within the Software Development Group.
Contact person: Jakob Bardram http://www.itu.dk/~bardram/pmwiki/
ITU Faculty Group; Software Development Group: http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Software Development Group
1.3. GSD SE Tool Suite. The objective of this project is to design and develop the tool suite and associated SE processes of next generation tools for GSD. The input of will be the requirements drawn from the field studies and the technical specifications of the underlying reference architecture. Your background should be within Software Engineering and you will be associated within the Software Development Group.
Contact person: Jakob Bardram http://www.itu.dk/~bardram/pmwiki/ or Ali Babar http://www.itu.dk/people/maba/index.html
ITU Faculty Group; Software Development Group: http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Software Development Group
Intelligent Context Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living
As part of the "Intelligent Context Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living" (iCareNet) EU Training Network we have the following two scholarships:
2.1. Seamless integration of wearable computers and public displays for mobile collaboration in a hospital setting. This project targets the development and evaluation of interaction technology for wearable computers and public displays with a focus on acute and surgical environments inside hospitals. Specific focus will be paid on mixed-reality session establishment (activities typically involve a range of real-world objects, interactive devices, and digital information), multimodal interaction, and context-sensitive user interface adaptation (automatic choice of device and interaction modality) based on the situation. A wearable system prototype that provides activity support both at an individual level and in collaborative settings will be designed and evaluated together with hospital partners.
Contact person: Thomas Pederson http://www.itu.dk/people/tped/
ITU Faculty Group; Innovative Communication: http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Innovative Communication
2.2. Pervasive service infrastructure for activity based ad hoc collaboration inside hospitals. This project will investigate, develop, and evaluate a pervasive service infrastructure that allow clinicians to form ad hoc remote and co located collaboration sessions adapted and embedded in the current context. Specifically, this project will focus on a service infrastructure for activity discovery and adaptation for ad hoc collaboration. The pervasive service technology and context aware system will be integrated and evaluated in an acute hospital environment. A user interface software concept will be developed and the system will be integrated and evaluated in a hospital environment.
Contact person: Jakob Bardram http://www.itu.dk/~bardram/pmwiki/
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The two appointed iCareNet PhD scholarship holders will join a network of 19 fellow grant holders tied to universities in 6 different European countries and with industrial partnerships in place with, among others, Siemens and SAP. Note: in order to apply for the iCareNet scholarships the EU requires "mobility", which means that at the time of selection, the PhD candidate may not have resided or carried out his/her main activity in Denmark for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to his/her appointment. Short stays such as holidays are not taken into account. More info about iCareNet: www.icarenet.eu
SIREN3.1 A 3-year PhD position under the EU-funded SIREN project is available at the Center for Computer Games Research. The objective of the SIREN project is to create uniquely persuasive learning experiences to help children in thinking about and handling conflict in a constructive manner. The software developed by the project will be able to automatically generate conflict scenarios that fit the learning needs of particular groups of children with varying cultural background, maturity, and technical expertise.
The research activities of the PhD student will focus on both the design and the implementation phases of the SIREN game. We are looking for candidates with the following backgrounds: learning and/or persuasive game design, cross-cultural psychology, artificial and computational intelligence, interactive narrative, user modelling. Programming skills are necessary; a basic programming background is a requirement for the position.
Contact person: Georgios Yannakakis http://www.itu.dk/~yannakakis/
ITU Faculty Group; Center for Computer Games Research http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Games
DemTech
4.1 The DemTech project has several open PhD positions in two research disciplines relevant to electronic elections. Computer science: cryptography, concurrency, epistemic logics, formal methods, information security, modal logics, operational semantics, programming languages, proof assistants, logical frameworks, requirement engineering, rewriting theory, security protocol design, software engineering, theorem proving, type theory. Social science: democracy and science, democratic governance, ethnographic studies and ethnography of technologies, genealogy of democracy and technology, political technologies, public understanding of science, trust in information, science and technology studies (STS).
Contact person: Carsten Schürmann http://www.itu.dk/people/carsten/
ITU Faculty Group; Programming, Logic and Semantics http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Programming, Logic and Semantics
Relational Reasoning for Programs using Higher-Order Store
5.1 Relational Reasoning about for Programs using Higher-Order Store: The aim of this project is to develop semantic techniques for formal reasoning about programs. Specifically, we aim to extend the logical relations methods that we have developed over the last couple of years for contextual equivalence for languages with higher-order store to relational reasoning about program analyses specified via refined type systems. Some of the research work will involve formalizations of new models in the Coq theorem prover. Some of the research will be done in collaboration with researchers from Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.
Contact person: Lars Birkedal http://www.itu.dk/~birkedal/ ITU Faculty Group; Programming, Logic and Semantics http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Programming, Logic and Semantics
War Room Technologies and Lean Activities in Global Engineering
6.1.We are offering an 3-year industrial PhD position in the area of War Room Technologies and Lean Activities in Global Engineering together with FLSmidth. The project is a part of the GIRI initiative and the PhD student will be placed in the Technology in Practice research group. The candidate must have an interdisciplinary profile in ethnographic studies with a design focus, with qualification in CSCW and PD.
Contact person: Pernille Bjørn http://itu.dk/~pbra/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
ITU Faculty Group; Technologies in Practice: http://www.itu.dk/en/Forskning/Kompetencer/Faggrupper#Technologies in Practice
Open Call for Outstanding applicants
Outstanding applicants from any area of IT - including science and engineering, the social sciences, and the arts - are encouraged to apply for PhD positions outside of the specific project calls.
Note that the ITU PhD School is extremely selective, the funding opportunities for such positions are very limited and the selection process highly competitive.
A successful applicant typically already has an established research record inside the potential advisor's field.
The application must include:
1) Cover letter, including the name of a suggested advisor at ITU who is strongly linked to the applicant's field of research
2) A complete research plan on the level of a junior researcher (statement of purpose)(
3) Documentation of academic degree and grade transcripts that document an outstanding academic record
4) Curriculum Vitae
5) A relevant scientific publication in a recognised, peer-reviewed venue, such as a major international conference or journal in the potential advisor's field
6) A letter of recommendation from a leading international researcher that is professionally known to the potential advisor.
* Candidates that significantly deviate from these guidelines need not apply.