PhD student in Computer Science

Mälardalen University in Västerås, is an expansive university with a strong focus on engineering, and the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering is a research intensive enviroment with strong focus on Embedded systems, Real-time systems and Software Engineering.
IDT is offering a PhD student position in the area of complex embedded real-time systems. The PhD student position is starting in fall 2009.

In this project we will investigate how to couple existing standards for modeling of hardware architectures and the deployment of software entities onto such architectures within the PROGRESS research centre.
We will adopt the concepts of Platform Independent Models and Platform Dependent Models (PIM/PDM) from the UML-community and investigate how these concepts can be mapped onto the PROGRESS component models. Specifically we will investigate existing standards such as SysML, AADL and Autosar with the purposes both to reuse exiting work, if applicable, and to make the PROGRESS component-model compliant to relevant industry-standards. An important aspect of the above problem is to be able to model parts of the system at different abstraction levels.
This project will be conducted in cooperation with the project "Execution Modeling in Distributed Real-Time Systems where this project will focus on the more general and academic aspects of the problem

Eligibility
Only someone who can be or already has been enrolled for PhD studies at a university can be employed at a PhD position. The requirement for being qualified for PhD studies is to have at least four years of university studies, corresponding to a Master's degree.

Admittance to the post-graduate education will be handled in conjunction with the employment procedure. In general anyone who has graduated with a Master's degree with a major in Computer Engineering or Computer Science is eligible as graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering. Students with corresponding qualifications, for instance from similar programs at other universities, may also be admitted.

Mälardalen University applies positive action, giving priority to a person of underrepresented sex (in this case women), when applicants are otherwise equal.

An application prepared in English should contain:

1. Short CV: data about yourself including date of birth, sex, address, e-mail address if possible.
2).Copy of an official document giving grades from you undergraduate degree(s) or studies.
3. A description of:
a) an area of interest within your chosen subject(s) and maybe plans for research if any;
b) previous work and teaching experience if any;
c) previous PhD studies, also in other subjects.
4. If possible, some letters of recommendation from people who know you as a student or as an employee.
5. Any scientific papers you may have written (Master s thesis, project report etc).
6. Other relevant information


To apply, please send your application to the following address:
Registrator, Personnel Division
Mälardalen University
Box 883,
SE-721 23 Västerås
Sweden