The successful candidate should have at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science, maths, science or engineering, and have the pre-requisites for PhD studies at NUI Galway. The PhD studentship covers academic fees, a generous monthly stipend and a research travel allowance for a three year period.

In addition, the following criteria are desirable but not necessary:

• Familiarity with graph algorithms and theory (e.g., finding connected components efficiently);
• Familiarity with modelling and simulation;
• Familiarity with social network analysis;
• Familiarity with large-scale, distributed, dynamic data analysis (e.g., data streaming algorithms);
• Familiarity with data mining, feature selection and machine learning, especially graph mining and graph grammars;
• Masters or equivalent degree in a relevant discipline or topic

The successful candidate will work with the DERI Principle Investigator, Dr. Conor Hayes, Dr. Jeffrey Chan and Dr. Marcel Karnstedt in DERI, Galway. There will be extensive opportunities for collaboration with other Clique researchers and with other research groups and projects in DERI. The application must contain the following: a CV, a one page statement explaining the candidate's interest in and compatibility with the objectives of the position and a list of referees. Applications that do not follow this format will not be considered. Closing date: May 30th, 2010.

References:

[1] Jeffrey Chan and Conor Hayes, “Decomposing Discussion Forums using User Roles”, in Proceedings of 2nd Web Science Conference 2010, USA, 2010.
[2] Marcel Karnstedt and Conor Hayes, “Towards Cross-Community Effects in Scientific Communities”, in Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning, 2009.
[3] Jeffrey Chan, James Bailey and Christopher Leckie, “Discovering correlated spatio-temporal changes in evolving graphs”, in Knowledge and Information Systems, 16(1), 2008.