PhD Position

Applications are invited for two four-year doctoral studentships in computer science to be located at University College Cork as part of the SMARTeBuses project funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Research RD&D Programme.

The project is classified as Non-economic Public Good Research under the EU State Aid regulations. The project will exploit, combine and improve cutting-edge AI technologies (Constraint Programming, Mixed Integer Programming, Metaheuristics and their combination with Machine Learning) to develop and implement optimization models for the operation of electric buses in Ireland with operational constraints (e.g., limited driving range and battery charging/discharging time).

General enquiries about the PhD positions can be made to Dr. Alejandro Arbelaez: a.arbelaez@cs.ucc.ie

Applicant Expertise Requirements:

These students will have an undergraduate or taught postgraduate degree in computer science or mathematics, with strong analytical, problem solving, and software experience. Students will be expected to have some experience in constraint programming, operations research, machine learning, optimization, local search, graph theory or artificial intelligence, e.g. having undertaken an undergraduate project in one of these areas or having completed an MSc in a closely related area. Other relevant areas of expertise would be knowledge in constraint, integer or dynamic programming, or evolutionary computation or other metaheuristics, or a machine learning area such as reinforcement learning.

The successful applicants will each receive total funding of €18,500 per annum for up to four years and an annual contribution of €5,500 towards tuition fees.

For more information about the Department of Computer Science, please see the following link: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/