Organisation/Company: FEUP
Department: Human Resources
Division: Research
Field: Engineering » Other
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Positions: Bachelor Positions
Country: Portugal
Application Deadline: 25 Nov 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
Type of Contract: Not Applicable
Job Status: Not Applicable
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by an EU programme
Reference Number: FEUP | Research Grant | Sensitive Industry - 152
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description 1 Research Grant Announcement (M/F)
Call open for applications for a research grant within the framework of project Sensitive Industry, with nr. 182852, co-financed by Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (COMPETE 2020), through national funds, under the following conditions:
Scientific Area: Informatics Engineering
Admission requirements:
To be a student enrolled in a master's degree or integrated master's program who has already completed the 180 credits corresponding to the first six curricular semesters in the area of Informatics and Computing Engineering, requirement to be proven at the time of signing the contract.
Note: In the case of degree holders who are enrolled in non-academic degree courses, the scholarship can only be awarded to those who do not exceed, with this scholarship contract, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of two years in that typology of the scholarship, followed or interpolated.
Hold a bachelor's degree in Informatics and Computing Engineering or related field.
If the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, it must comply with the provisions of the Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16th, and any formalities established there must be fulfilled until the time of signing the contract.
Activity Outline: The work will focus on designing an extensible framework that enables the efficient orchestration of devices and services in IoT environments. Advanced techniques for real-time analytics, monitoring, and metrics will be investigated to ensure optimized resource management within the platform. The framework will be validated through laboratory testing, ensuring its ability to adapt to dynamic conditions. Additionally, research will be conducted on automatic device discovery and capability detection/announcement, as well as mechanisms for automatic resource monitoring and control.
Work place: The work will be developed at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the scientific supervision of Professor André Restivo.
Grant duration: Initial duration of 4 months , with the predicted starting date in December 2024 , on an exclusive basis eventually renewable but never exceeding the project duration.
If it is not possible to ensure the duration of 4 months estimated in the previous paragraph, this duration will be adjusted according to the end date of the project, and provided that the minimum duration of 3 consecutive months is guaranteed.
Selection procedure:
The curricular evaluation of the candidates will be evaluated based on the merit of the candidate and the following factors will be assessed:
Academic training (bachelor in the area of Informatics and Computing Engineering - 5 points; bachelor in a related area - 2 points)
Research experience in the area of the project (up to 1 year - up to 2 points; more than 1 year up to 5 points)
Candidate motivation in relation to the work plan, to be inferred from the motivation letter (up to 5 points)
The four best ranked candidates in the curricular evaluation will be interviewed (up to 5 points). In the interview, topics related to the work plan, experience, motivation, and candidate's CV will be discussed.
The final scores result from the sum of the curricular evaluation and the interview.
If none of the candidates achieves a minimum final score of 16 points, the scholarship will not be awarded.
Deadline for applications and form of presentation of the applications:
The call is open from 12/11/2024 to 25/11/2024 (until 23h59m, GMT time).
Number of offers available: 1
Company/Institute: FEUP - FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
Country: Portugal
State/Province: PORTO
City: PORTO
Postal Code: 4200-465
Street: RUA DOUTOR ROBERTO FRIAS, S/N
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