Research Position Openings
About TUMCREATE
TUMCREATE (Technical University of
Munich - Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise) is a
research platform for the improvement of Singapore's public transportation,
including the deployment of electric and autonomous mobility. Researchers from
Technical University Munich (TUM) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
join forces, funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation as part of the
Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.
At TUMCREATE, over 100 scientists,
researchers and engineers work together, led by Professors from the Technical
University of Munich and Nanyang Technological University. The Mission of
TUMCREATE is to seek the ultimate public transport system for the people of
Singapore. Our innovative road transport solutions will provide high comfort
and a positive travel experience, best protection of the environment and
maximum benefit to the society and the economy.
More Information about TUMCREATE can be
found by viewing our web pages at http://www.tum-create.edu.sg/
Background
The goal of the Area-Interlinking Design
Analysis (AIDA) group is to advance the capabilities of mobility simulation and
to develop and analyse innovative intelligent
transport system solutions. A key focus of our research is CityMoS,
a high-performance traffic simulator that simulates road traffic at the scale
of entire cities at a microscopic level of detail.
The vision pursued by AIDA is an
evaluation and optimisation of traffic flows using
simulation-based predictions relying on real-time sensor data. To this end, we
are exploring high-performance parallel and distributed simulation methods on
CPU-based platforms and using hardware accelerators, as well as techniques for
large-scale simulation-based optimisation.
About the Position
We have position openings for Research
Associate (RA), post-doctoral Research Fellow (RF), and Senior Research Fellow
(SRF) in the NTU team within AIDA. The position offers the opportunity to work
on topics with real-world relevance in an international team of researchers
from renowned universities.
The responsibilities of the position
include:
- Coordinating
research activities (for RF & SRF only)
- Conducting
research in simulation-based evaluation of large-scale traffic scenarios
- Preparation
of research papers targeting high-quality conferences and journals in the
relevant fields as well as presentation at conferences
Required qualifications:
- For
RF & SRF: PhD degree in computer science or related field
- For
RA: Master's degree in computer science or related field
- Strong scientific publication record (for RF & SRF only)
- Experience
in discrete simulation, parallel and distributed computing, or distributed
systems
- Good
knowledge of C++ or Java and at least one scripting language
- Ability
to work independently and with an international team
- Excellent
analytical, technical, and problem solving skills
- Strong
verbal and written English communication skills
An attractive remuneration based on
experience and qualifications as well as a standard benefit package competitive
with the industry will be provided for the successful applicant. Singapore
offers a very low tax rate (payable tax is $550 on first $40,000 + 7% on next
$40,000).
Interested candidates should send their
full application, including a resume, academic transcripts, and a cover letter
to Prof Wentong Cai at aswtcai@ntu.edu.sg
About Modelling and
Simulation Group at NTU
The Modelling and Simulation (M&S) group led by
Prof Wentong Cai has been conducting impactful
research in M&S over two decades.
The group has published extensively in top venues in the area such as
ACM TOMACS, SMPT (Elsevier), IEEE TPDS, FGCS (Elsevier), JPDC (Elsevier), and
ACM SIGSIM PADS and has won 12 Best Paper Awards in international
conferences. Recent ones include
IEEE/ACM DS-RT’18, ACM SIGSIM PADS’18, and ACM SIGSIM PADS’17. Many alumni of the group now work as
Professors in leading universities in Europe and China or Research Engineers in
leading IT companies world-wide such as Microsoft, Alibaba, Tencent,
and Huawei.
The research of the group mainly focuses on the
intersection between Computer Science and M&S. The current research interests include: performance
and scalability of discrete event simulation, large-scale distributed virtual
environment and cloud gaming, dynamic data-driven agent-based modelling and
simulation, and agent-based simulation applications (e.g., crowd and traffic
simulation).