The School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH invite applications for PhD positions.

KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. Education and research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering and architecture, industrial engineering and management, urban planning, science and engineering working environment. KTH has 6955 full-time equivalent students in high school (first) level in 5545 Master (second) level, 1,314 in doctoral studies (third) level and 3,900 employees.

The School of Architecture and Built Environment focuses on the future of our societies, how our cities, buildings and infrastructure should be designed. We study the growth, technology and environment, as well as ethical considerations and risks. Our curriculum and our research are based on various academic disciplines: engineering and technical sciences, humanities and social sciences.

The doctoral research aims to use data collected from mobile sources, distributed sensors for traffic applications. Location data from mobile sources, such as GPS, are increasingly available and offer a range of opportunities for real-time monitoring and control of the transport system. The research was conducted in the newly created ITS laboratory in KTH. The laboratory is equipped through a generous grant from IBM with a number of powerful servers and software. The laboratory currently receives in real time, large amounts of traffic and traffic related data. The computer group IBM Watson laboratories current is a partner in this research provides support and expertise in the area of computing power, a computing paradigm for further processing large amounts of data in real time, for example related information on demand applications

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29903.wss
The PhD will interact through a joint project with the Millennium mobile group at the University of California, Berkeley

http://traffic.berkeley.edu/
Candidates will be part of a group to carry out interdisciplinary research in modeling, simulation and management of transport systems, with special attention to applications of ICT. international partnerships include IBM Watson Laboratories in New York, MIT, the University of California at Berkeley. In general, transport in KTH has a number of new initiatives eg

http://www.kth.se/forskning/sra/trenop?l=en_UK
contributing to a very productive and stimulating research environment.

Ratings
Highly motivated individuals with a master's degree in electrical engineering, physics, computer science, operations research, applied statistics and econometrics, transportation systems, or similar. Interest in the application of data mining, optimization, estimation, simulation, and quantitative methods to general problems of operating transport. Excellent skills and oral and written skills of communication. Good programming and software engineering skills in a variety of operating environments is important.

To address its varied work, KTH aims to employ a variety of talent and thus welcomes applicants who will add to the variety of the university, especially in relation to the gender structure.

Employment
Form of employment: the position for a limited time
Start date: Immediately

Application
The applicant shall submit an application with curriculum vitae, the final grades, a brief description of future career goals and interests, and names of two references.

Mark the application with reference number of the employer.

Deadline for submission of application 07.08.2010
Employer reference: A-2010-0557
 

Address application to:
registrator.tec@abe.kth.se

Contact
Professor Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Phone: +46 8 790 9746
hnk@kth.se

Union representative
Lars Abrahamsson, SACO
Phone: +46 8 790 7058
lars.abrahamsson@ee.kth.se

Further scholarship information