Post-doc position currently available for 1 year Electrical and
computer engineering
Topic:
A post-doc position is currently open in the
research areas of multi- sensor fusion and
signal/information processing in distributed
navigation/information system using wireless telecom and applied to
intelligent vehicles.
Financial support:
The candidate will be awarded a post-doc fellowship for one year.
Context and project description:
Rapid development in information and sensing technologies in the last
few years is having a more and more significant impact in the
automotive industry. We may think of GPS based navigation systems,
anti-collision systems, night vision, smart cruise control systems
etc. already present in several high end car models. The research
project considered here is part of AUTO21, a Canadian research Network
of Centres of Excellence. The post-doc candidate will join the project
team and his/her work will involve several tasks, among others, to
participate to R&D activities integrating sensors networks and
wireless telecom for automotive applications. Increasing number of
sensors makes attractive distributed architectures involving local
processing of data and proper data exchange protocols in order to
generate coherent actions and an optimized collective behaviour of a
given set of cars sharing common localized infrastructures and a
dynamic environment. The proposed AUTO21 project entitled « Wireless
Sensor Networks for Communicative and Adaptive Cars » has three main
components: sensing, communications, and
information/data processing. The project involves several professors
at the Université de Sherbrooke, located in Quebec, Canada, as well as
researchers from other universities and industrial partners. The
position will focus mainly on the aspects “information processing and
uncertainty modeling and propagation”.
The chosen candidate will also have the following tasks,
1) Actively participate in research activities concentrating on the
theoretical aspects of information processing and uncertainty modeling
and propagation”, on the development of information processing
methods, taking into account various sources of uncertainty, and on
evaluating their impact upon systems robustness and reliability in a
context of positioning, navigation and wireless ad-hoc communications
applied to intelligent vehicles;
2) Assist in the R&D management issues of the AUTO21 project;
3) Assist in the development and follow-up of collaborations with our
project partners as well as at the international level;
4) Assist in the supervision/management of a PhD candidate involved in
the project;
5) Actively participate in the writing of publications and other
project related documents.
Requirements:
Requirements include a PhD degree completed in electrical and computer
engineering or similar, solid competencies in mathematics, statistics
and signal processing, and a good background in scientific software
development and programming (ex. Matlab). Knowledge of French is an
asset, but not mandatory.
Starting date: Now
Working place: Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Submissions of candidacy and information requests shall be addressed to:
Denis Gingras, Dr. Ing.
Professor
Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique
Faculté de génie
Université de Sherbrooke
Email: denis.gingras@usherbrooke.ca
Fax.:(819) 821-7937
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