DCU, INSIGHT Research Centre Seeks to fill Vacancies

The INSIGHT Research Centre for Big Data Analytics is a joint initiative between researchers at University College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, and Dublin City University, as well as other partner institutions. It will bring together a critical mass of more than 200 researchers from Ireland's leading ICT centres to develop a new generation of data analytics technologies in a number of key application areas.

The €70m centre is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and a wide range of industry partners. INSIGHT's research focus encompasses a broad range of data analytics technologies and challenges, from machine learning, decision analytics and social network analysis to linked data, recommender systems and the sensor web. And together with more that 30 partner companies INSIGHT researchers are solving critical challenges in the areas of Connected Health and the Discovery Economy. The Discovery Economy refers to novel products and services based on a better understanding of short and long-term user needs. It combines ideas from personalization and recommender systems with location-based services and the real-time social web. Connected Health advocates a technology-based model for healthcare delivery to maximize healthcare resources and provide increased, flexible opportunities for people to engage with clinicians and better self-manage their own care.

Within DCU, INSIGHT will continue the work done as part of the CLARITY CSET and will initially involve researchers across Materials Science and Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, and Health and Human Performance.

For its initial start-up phase within DCU, INSIGHT is seeking to fill vacancies for 7 postdoctoral researchers, 2 research assistants and 14 PhD students across a range of disciplines, starting between July and September 2013. Further vacancies will arise throughout the next 12 months. PhD studentships are fully funded for 4 years and cover stipend, University fees and travel/materials, and are available in Computing, Engineering, and Materials Sciences

In the first instance, potential candidates should contact Prof Noel O Connor (noel.oconnor@dcu.ie) for PhD studentships in the School of Electronic Engineering.