Opportunities

• Two Vacant Research Positions (as of September 2007)

  Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and PhD Scholarship in Service-Oriented Architecture

  Our group seeks to fill the following two research positions in Service-Oriented Architecture:

  • A Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
  • An APAI PhD Scholarship (stipend: $30k pa).

  These researchers are to join a research project investigating Rich Service Registries (RSR), funded by the Australian Research Council and CA Labs.

  Rich Service Registries will be the centre piece of future enterprise information systems deploying the service-oriented architecture. The project aims to create an extensible framework for rich service registries that allow an enterprise's IT services to be characterised, located and managed according to their business and system properties in a dynamic and intelligent manner. It provides methods, techniques and a software platform for service modelling, quality/policy-based service discovery, service lifecycle management, auditing and legal compliance of services and applications from an enterprise perspective.

  Research Fellow: The appointee is expected to play a key role in the project, and must have a broad appreciation of the above project issues as well as in-depth expertise in some of the key research topic areas. The position is available for a period of three years. For more information and application, please refer to www.swin.edu.au/jobs (position number: 26414). For informal equiry, please contact Prof Jun Han. Application closes on 30 September 2007.

  PhD Scholarship: The candidate is expected to carry out research in one of the project's key research topic areas (see above). The scholarship is available for a period of three years, with a stipend of $30,000 per year (tax free) plus other travel and research support. The applicant must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian permanent resident, and have a good 4 year undergraduate degree or equivalent in software engineering, computer science or information technology. For further information and application, please contact Prof Jun Han with your CV and university transcripts.

• Research students
  Research students (Undergraduate and Masters research subjects, Honours, Master by Research, and PhD) are sought to carry out research in component-based software and system engineering. Scholarships are available to students at the Research Masters and PhD levels on a competitive basis. For further information and application forms, please contact Prof Jun Han with the following details:

  • A detailed curriculum vitae,
  • An (electronic) copy of undergraduate and postgraduate transcripts that include individual subjects and the results gained,
  • Topic(s) of interest, and
  • If available, evidence of English proficiency (native English speaker, previous studies in English in certain cases, or IELTS of 6.5 with no band below 6).

  Visitors
  Our research group welcomes and accommodates academic visitors and exchange students, to carry out collaborative research. For further information, please contact Prof Jun Han.
  
  Industry and government collaboration
  Conducting industrially relevant research and consultancy is one of the major objectives of our research group. To explore collaborative opportunities, please contact Prof Jun Han.