Ph.D. students in Design Automation of High Peformance, Low Power Systems - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Project description

Third-cycle subject: Information and communication technology

These PhD positions are for a project with focus on Edge AI for enterprise systems. KTH’s contribution would be in enhancing and using its unique SiLago (Silicon Lego) framework for two challenging use cases from Atlas Copco and StrikerSoft. SiLago enables automated designs that are orders of magnitude better in computational efficiency than GPUs and FPGAs. In these PhD theses, the SiLago framework will be enhanced to automate synthesis of complex applications and systems for SiLago.

Supervision: The doctoral student will be supervised by: Prof. Ahmed Hemani 

What we offer

• The possibility to study in a dynamic and international research environment in collaboration with industries and prominent universities from all over the world.Read more
• A workplace with many employee benefits and monthly salary according to KTH’s Doctoral student salary agreement.
• A postgraduate education at an institution that is active and supportive in matters pertaining to working conditions, gender equality and diversity as well as study environment.
• Work and study in Stockholm, close to nature and the water.
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH.

Eligibility

To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:

• passed a degree at advanced level,
• completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 higher education credits at advanced level, or
• in any other way acquired within or outside the country acquired essentially equivalent knowledge.
• Requirements for English equivalent to English B/6, read more here.

Selection

In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:

• independently pursue his or her work
• creative, problem solving and penchant for doing high-impact foundational research,
• work in a disciplined manner with good time management skills
• collaborate with others,
• write, present and discuss scientific work with clarity and precision in English,
• have a professional approach and
• analyse and work with complex issues.

The applicant is expected to have a master’s degree in Computer Science or electrical engineering with focus on compilation for parallel architectures. The applicant should be familiar with the state of the art compilers, optimization algorithms and constraints programming and graph theory algorithms. The applicant is also expected to have a strong background in digital design, computer architectures and AI/ML, security algorithms, signal processing and AI/ML algorithms. The applicant is expected to some HDL, objected oriented programming and constraints programming.

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency.

Target degree: Doctoral Degree

Information regarding admission and employment

Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.

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Doctoral section (Students’ union on KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

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Application

Apply for the position and admission through KTH's recruitment system. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the advertisement.

Applications must be received at the last closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/entral European Summer Time).

Applications must include the following elements:

• CV highlighting your competence and experience in hardware design, its design automation, optimization and ML algorithms.
• Application letter with a brief description of why you want to pursue research studies, about what your academic interests are and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. (Maximum 2 pages long)
• Copies of diplomas and grades from previous university studies and certificates of fulfilled language requirements (see above). Translations into English or Swedish if the original document is not issued in one of these languages.
• Representative publications or technical reports. For longer documents, please provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.

Other information

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