[AISWorld] Job posting: 2 PhD student positions - STI Innsbruck

[HR]

STI Innsbruck is a research institute at the University of Innsbruck 
engaged in research and development of semantic technologies. Its focus 
is on the increased automatisation of data, content, and service 
delivery, as means for scalable multi-channel communication. STI 
Innsbruck is currently seeking candidates for the following positions:


2 PhD student positions



We are searching for new staff to help us in current projects, such as:

MSEE: The first Grand Challenge for MSEE project is to make SSME 
(Service Science Management and Engineering) evolve towards 
Manufacturing Systems and Factories of the Future.
BIG: Building an industrial community around Big Data in Europe is the 
priority of this project, together with setting up the necessary 
collaboration and dissemination infrastructure to link technology 
suppliers, integrators and leading user organizations.

PRELIDA: The Linked Data cloud has specific characteristics in terms of 
structuring, interlinkage, dynamicity and distribution that pose new 
challenges to the preservation community. PRELIDA will organise in-depth 
discussions among the linked data and preservation communities to 
identify which of these characteristics require novel solutions, and to 
develop road maps for addressing the new challenges.

PlanetData: The main aim of PlanetData is to establish an 
interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, 
helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way.

OntoHealth: This project aims to establish functionally flexible, 
standard-based Electronic Health Record systems that allow answering 
respectively support solving clinical problems on an individual, 
case-specific basis.

LDBC: The goal of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) project is to 
create the first comprehensive suite of open, fair and vendor-neutral 
benchmarks for RDF/graph databases together with the LDBC foundation 
which will define processes for obtaining, auditing and publishing results.



Furthermore our researchers continuously acquire new projects.


We offer

The stimulating environment of a research institute in the fields of 
Semantic Web, Ontology Engineering, Linked Data, Semantic Web Services, 
Semantic Technologies beyond the Web, Service-Oriented Architectures, 
and formal languages
Long-term collaboration with well-known academic institutions and major 
companies around the world
A multicultural working place with state-of-the-art infrastructure, a 
competitive salary and resources including funding for attending 
international conferences, PhD symposia, summer schools, etc.



We expect

A strong background in Computer Science or related disciplines
The Willingness to work in an international environment and combine 
formal scientific work with application-oriented research in order to 
solve real-world problems
The ability to take part in large-scale international research projects
Research interest and expertise in at least one of the following: Formal 
languages and reasoning (description logics, logic programming), 
ontology languages, Semantic Web services, business aspects of semantic 
systems, Linked Data.
Technological background in Java or other programming languages will be 
valuable.





To apply

We kindly invite you to submit your online application until 29.03.2014 
to hr at sti2.at

Additional information regarding our organization’s research and 
projects is available at http://www.sti-innsbruck.at.