Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years.

Up to six fully funded 3 year PhD Studentships (overseas or home) are available to work in the broad area of systems and networks, under the supervision of either Professor Jon Crowcroft or Professor Richard Mortier.

The focus of the research will be in the following two areas:

Future Intelligent Networks (Professor Jon Crowcroft)

Modern compute platforms involve a high degree of centralisation, both in how computational resources are provided and how they are used. For example, a small number of large platform providers enable content delivery to the vast majority of readers, and state of the art scientific modelling uses large centralised high-performance computing facilities. These PhDs will study how to place intelligence in the network as one means to help support greater accountability by, e.g., enabling information accuracy to be validated and dissemination understood, and to improve the sustainability of such platforms by, e.g., moving compute nearer to data sources.

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43518/