The IBCN group belongs to the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) ofGhent University (UGent) and is part of the Internet Technologies Department ofiMinds. At a national level the group is collaborating with about 100 industrial partners in many multidisciplinary projects. Also internationally there is strong involvement in European research projects, especially in the Future Internet area, with about 70 finished and running EU projects over the past 10 years. Since the start of the IBCN group in 1992, research resulted in 1600 publications in international journals and conference proceedings, 80 PhD's, 45 international awards, and 6 spin-off companies. 

Job description

• You will be performing research in the domain of distributed Cloud computing
• You will conduct research on intelligent resource management for Hybrid Cloud environments (mixture of public / private cloud resources and end-user devices), in the framework of national and European research projects
• You will analyse and design cloud resource assignment / management algorithms and solutions.
•  You will build up hands-on experience by implementing novel cognitive cloud resource assignment / management algorithms and by evaluating these through emulation on a large in-house test bed and through detailed simulations
• You publish and present results both at international conferences and in scientific journals.
• This research will lead to a PhD degree.

Our offering
We offer a competitive salary with interesting social benefits and a challenging, stimulating and pleasant research environment, where you can contribute to the worldwide research for the Future Internet. The work is done in close collaboration with key European ICT and telecom industry players.

This research will lead to a PhD degree.

Throughout the complete PhD period, you receive a full-time, attractive salary. 

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Your profile

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and skills.

• You have (or will receive within a few months) a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics or Informatics. You are acquainted with the Java or C++ programming language. Experience and a strong interest in existing or new Cloud technologies is a must
• You are able to plan and carry out your tasks in an independent way. You have strong analytical skills to interpret the obtained research results.
• You are a team player and have strong communication skills.
• You are able to commit to timing and milestones set forward by different research projects.
• Your English is fluent, both speaking and writing. 

iMinds (www.iminds.be) is an independent research organisation whose task, assigned by the Flemish Government , is to encourage Innovation through excellent Digital Research. iMinds offers companies and organizations active support in research and development and, for that purpose, stimulates companies, authorities and non-profit organizations to work together on IT research projects. iMinds also offers programs to inspire, train and coach the next generation of IT entrepreneurs. The goal of iMinds’ incubation & entrepreneurship program is to bring IT innovations to the market, either by helping to build and grow successful high-tech IT ventures or by driving innovation in industry partnerships and collaborative research. 

iMinds Research consists of more than 850 researchers working at the 5 Flemish universities (Ghent, Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp and Hasselt). It is an international, multidisciplinary research environment with top talent coming from more than 50 countries throughout the world.

iMinds has a non-discriminating gender & diversity policy when attracting research talent.