3 Postdoc in Embedded Sensor Systems for Health

3 Postdoc in Embedded Sensor Systems for Health
Ref. No 142/13
Form of employment: Temporary employment
Scope: 100%
Last date of application: 2013-09-09
Employment location: Västerås

Mälardalen University (MDH) announces three postdoc positions in Embedded Sensor Systems for Health focusing on Intelligent Decision Support. The School of Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT) provides an international research-intensive environment with strong focus on Embedded Systems (ES). IDT is hosting a large number of national and international research projects, in many cases in close collaboration with industrial partners.

Embedded Sensor Systems for Health (ESS-H) is a new research profile at Mälardalen University targeting Embedded Sensor Systems for Health. ESS-H is financed by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation by 36 million SEK over 6 years. In ESS-H, researchers at MDH are working together with industrial partners, municipalities, and county councils with the aim to develop novel embedded sensor systems promoting health. The sensor systems will monitor health conditions and follow health trends of elderly at home, but also monitor drivers and machine operators with the aim to achieve a safer work environment.

The three postdocs will participate in the building of a large cross-subject research group with several senior researchers, with focus on systems-oriented research within the ESS-H research profile, in collaboration with industry and society, and in building and maintaining a large regional, national and international network. Cooperational abilities and experience of collaboration with industry and society is therefore important.

Active involvement in the development of the ESS-H environment as well as the entire ES research environment is expected.

Position 1 - Intelligent Decision Support

This position addresses the ESS-H core area Intelligent Decision Support with focus on clinical decision support systems based on electronic health records, to some extent also including biomedical sensor technology. A particular focus will be on hybrid and distributed decision support systems including case-based reasoning, machine learning, knowledge discovery, Bayesian nets, clustering, and information fusion.


Position 2 - Dependable Wireless Communication

This position addresses the ESS-H supporting technology area Dependable Wireless Communication, to some extent also the area Biomedical Sensor Systems. A focus will be on dependable communication for distributed sensor systems targeting health applications. One part of the work will concern dependable wireless communication, e.g. in harsh work environments. Another part will concern dependable and efficient transport, storage and retrieval of large amounts of physiological sensor data.

Position 3 - Software Testing

This position addresses the ESS-H supporting technology area Software Testing. A focus will be on the area of model-based testing of embedded software in sensor systems. Particular interest will be on testing of non-functional properties such as e.g., timing and resource consumption, using architectural description languages for integration and system testing. Other aspects, such as sensors, other hardware, system environment including human interaction, etc, will also be part of the models.

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