PhD Fellowship in the area of Big Data Analytics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

The Department of Computer and Information Science have opening 1 PhD
scholarship in the area of BigData Analytics. The scholarship is for three
years, with an opening for one additional year of work duties (as teaching
assistant, etc.) for the department.

Our society has been overwhelmed with the explosion of data, where most data
are available in digital form and the total amount of data grows
exponentially. This has lead to the emergence of BigData as a research area.
The BigData research initiative was established in 2013 by the Faculty for
Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NTNU, to
precisely address the related research and technological challenges incurred
by the explosion of data in the society.

As part of this research initiative, the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU) wants to employ a PhD student within one of the following target
areas:

* Bigdata analytical methods for Social Media.
* Spatio-Temporal indexing and retrieval.
* Spatio-Temporal aspects in Recommender Systems
* Content Personalization

Specific Conditions: The appointment is at salary code 1017, which currently
corresponds to a yearly gross income of NOK 421.100 (equivalent to approx.
EUR 52.000 and USD 70.000).

Our group is highly international and English is the working language.

For further information about the fellowship, please contact Project
Coordinator Assoc. Professor Heri Ramampiaro (heri at idi.ntnu.no).

For more detailed information about the research group, see:
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/dif/

For the full announcement and application instructions see
http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=98423

Closing date: 2014-01-02