Duties and Responsibilities
A full-time Postdoctoral Associate position is immediately available for a highly motivated individual to join the Center for Environmental Sensing And Modeling (CENSAM) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), in the frame of a research program jointly led by Prof Dick K.P. Yue (MIT, Department of Mechanical Engineering) and Prof Roland Bouffanais (SUTD, EPD).
The candidate should have a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and expertise in computational fluid dynamics.The overall goal of the project is to develop a floating supercomputing cluster with compute nodes on-board mobile buoys capable of sensing and swarming. The sensed data will be fed back into the CFD code to be developed. The candidate will be responsible for the Distributed CFD component of this project and shall help co-supervise at least one Ph.D. student.
The position is available immediately and based at SMART in Singapore (CREATE Campus, University Town)
Requirements
•Successful candidates should have received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering, physics, applied mathematics or a related field.
•Research expertise in parallel/distributed computing and/or network science will be considered a plus.
•A solid working knowledge in Python, C, C++ or Fortran is required.
•Ability to work both independently and in a team environment, and to take ownership of, and autonomously carry forward, major aspects of a research project.
•Ability of approaching research problems with a system view, of working in a multidisciplinary team environment, problem solving skills and high creativity.
•Candidates must present a strong publication record.
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
To apply please submit electronically the following documents to Prof. Dick Yue (
[email protected]) and Prof. Roland Bouffanais (
[email protected]):
•your full CV/resume, cover letter, copies of no more than three representative publications.
•list of three references (to include reference names and contact information).
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
