Kelompok peneliti “The NeTS” mencari kandidat S3 dari universitas seluruh penjuru dunia yang berprestasi yang tertarik di bidang jaringan nirkabel, komunikasi multimedia dan internet, serta protokol-protokol yang masih berkaitan dengan bidang ini. Bagi kandidat yang terpilih, akan diberikan beasiswa tiga tahun yang mencakup tunjangan riset, asuransi dan gaji.

Sedangkan profil yang dicari adalah kandidat yang mempunyai latar belakang di bidang Teknik Elektro, Ilmu Komputer atau bidang lain yang berkaitan yang mempunyai ketertarikan di bidang komunikasi nirkabel dan kandidat yang mempunyai ketertarikan di bidang ekonomi dan aspek regulasi teknologi telekomunikasi. Kandidat dengan latarbelakang Ilmu Sosial dengan basis teknologi komunikasi juga akan dipertimbangkan.

The NeTS research group is looking for PhD students coming from renowned universities from around the world, with a very good grade record, who have a very high interest in wireless, and multimedia communications in the Internet, and the protocols associated with it. Paramount is a desire to learn and push the limits of current technology, as well as providing new insight into today’s and tomorrow’s networks and services.

We are seeking for two profiles:

1. Students coming from electrical engineering, computer science or related fields, interested in research on pervasive wireless communications, specially those based on the IEEE 802.11 principles, including sensor, ad-hoc, infrastructure WLANs and mesh networks, as well as on the future Internet architectures for multimedia communications, specially those based on distributed -P2P- principles.
2. Students interested on economical and regulatory aspects of telecommunications technologies from communications engineering fields and knowledge about communication markets and / or economic/regulatory aspects. Candidates coming from social sciences areas with a ground base on telecommunications technologies will also be considered. In both cases, a motivation to interdisciplinary work oriented to understand relation among technical, economical and regulatory issues is compulsory.

There are 4 PhD competitive positions available for the 2009/2010 year. Each position includes a 3-year grant, that covers insurance, tuition and salary.

Application period (10 April 2009 – 10 June 2009)

Please send your full CV, together with your student record (as appropriate) and a cover letter stating your interests and goals to NeTS research group: nets.dtic@upf.edu

PhD Program information: Computer Science and Digital Communication of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF): http://www.upf.edu/dtecn/