Part Time Research Associate
Application Period: Feb. 12, 2018 - Feb. 19, 2018
Contact: sheryl AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca
Start Date: February 23, 2108
End Date: February 22, 2019
Supervisor: Professor Brigitte Pientka
Hours / Week: 13 hours per week.
Schedule: TBD with the supervisor
Location: TBD with the supervisor
Salary: $24.19 per hour
The Research Associate will assist Professor Pientka in managing the Beluga Project:
-Scheduling of research seminars, mini-hackathons, workshops, and reading group for the Beluga team;
-Coordinate regular meetings, including workshops, seminar series, and organize visiting speakers.
- Maintaining the complogic website where research seminars are announced
- Updating and Maintaining the Beluga website including the online tutorial
- Assist students, partners and professors in producing required deliverables (including proof reading of drafts; preparing additional material such as visual aids for publications)
-Writing of grant proposals directly related to safe reliable software systems;
-Development of strategies by which university research results, opportunities and challenges (identified in the process above) can be used to build liaisons with the industrial partners.
-Requires tracking of research progress against milestones, with respect to degree of progress and outstanding remaining challenges.
-Help identify new scientific collaborations and partnership opportunities;
- Oversee the development of Beluga on github
- Development of a general testing framework for Beluga’s interactive mode in collaboration with graduate and undergraduate students
- Lead the software maintenance and bug tracking of Beluga on github
Requirements:
- PhD in a scientific field (formal methods/software engineering)
- Strong mathematical background in formal methods (for example Petri Nets, graph rewriting), familiarity with formal validation and verification techniques)
- Experience in writing, editing, and proofreading scientific documents (proposals, articles, reports);
- Ability to collect and synthesize scientific content;
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Working knowledge of Mac and PC systems, Latex and Microsoft Office;
- Working knowledge of software development (ideally using functional programming)
- Working knowledge of version control systems such as Git
- Excellent professional writing skills are required
- Familiarity with Latex required; Fluency with computer technologies including document sharing applications and mathematical typesetting required ; Experience working with students is desirable
To apply: Please forward your cover letter and CV to sheryl AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca no later than Feb 19, 2018
