POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

• Excellent opportunity to work in a leading scientific institution with dedicated professionals
• Offering outstanding career development and professional support
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s premier science and technology research organisation

The Tasmanian ICT Centre is building world-class capability in sensor informatics. This capability is focused on achieving enhanced situation awareness in the energy, water and environment domains. The post-doctoral fellow will work as part of the project on linked sensor data. One of the biggest obstacles to re-use of third-party sensor data is lack of knowledge about the properties (e.g., provenance and quality) of data that consequently leads to a lack of trust in the data.

Specifically you will work on methods for:

• collaborative sensor data curation.
• citation of sensor data and tracking data re-use.
• assessing the reputation of sensor data sets based on re-use and user feedback.

Location: Hobart, Tasmania

Salary: $75K – $82K plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: 3 year term

Ref No: TAS01452

To be successful you will have:

• PhD in a relevant discipline area such as computer science, geoinformatics, information technology, systems engineering or related.
• Proven experience in either (a) data storage (annotation, archiving, citation, provenance), (b) sensor and stream data management, © semantic web technologies (including RDF, OWL, and SPARQL), or (d) computer supported collaborative work.
• Good publication record in data storage, sensor and stream data management, semantic web technologies, or computer supported collaborative work.
• Demonstrable competency in programming in Java, Python, C#, C, or C++.
• Evidence of an ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary research team.

About CSIRO:

Australia is founding its future on science and innovation. Its national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is a powerhouse of ideas, technologies and skills for building prosperity, growth, health and sustainability. It serves governments, industries, business and communities.

About the Research Group

CSIRO ICT CENTRE

For more information on CSIRO ICT CENTRE please visit our website at: http://research.ict.csiro.au/
For further information and to apply online for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow please visit our website at http://www.csiro.au/careers, under “Positions Vacant” search for Reference Number TAS01452.
Closing date: 6 November 2011

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