The Functional Programming group at Chalmers is seeking to recruit a PhD student to work on domain-specific languages embedded in Haskell for hardware design, and for programming graphics processors. PhD positions in Sweden are real jobs, paying a respectable salary for up to five years. The official announcement follows. John Hughes PhD Position in Functional Programming at the department of Computer Science and Engineering The Department provides strongly international and dynamic research environments with 76 faculty and 55 PhD students from about 30 countries. For more information, see http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN/ Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for application. English is our working language for research. Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses. Half of our researchers and PhD students are native Swedes; the rest come from more than 20 different countries. Aim of work The PhD student will pursue research on applying techniques from functional programming to develop novel methods of hardware design and verification. The PhD student will join the research activities at our department in applications of functional programming. In particular, we have concentrated on the design and application of Domain Specific Embedded Languages in Haskell. Two examples of our work are QuickCheck for specification-guided random testing and Lava for hardware design and verification. We have also developed Wired, for designing high performance hardware at the layout level. This project continues the above theme, by considering higher levels of abstraction, but still aiming to take account of physical properties, to give good performance and power consumption. We will even extend our ideas about circuit design to data parallel programming, including GPU programming. Applicants must have a very good undergraduate degree in Computing Science or in a related subject with a strong Computing Science component. They must also have a strong, documented interest in doing research. The ideal student for the project will be an accomplished functional programmer with an interest in applied functional programming. You may even apply if you have not yet completed your degree, but expect to do so by 1 January 2008. In order to improve gender balance, Chalmers welcomes in particular applications from female candidates. How to apply ------------ The full application should contain 1. A letter of application, listing specific research interests 2. A curriculum vitae 3. Attested copies of degrees and other certificates 4. Copies of relevant work, for example dissertations or articles, that you have authored or co-authored 5. Letters of recommendation from your teachers or employers *** You MUST include or e-mail Letters of Recommendation: we typically get over 100 apps, and it is simply not feasible for us to request individual letters *** The job reference number is: 2007/161. The last date for your full application to arrive is November 27, 2007 Send your application electronically in PDF files or by paper-mail to Registrator, Chalmers University of Technology, Se-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden. Phone: +4631 772 1000, Fax: +4631 772 4922, E-mail: registrator@adm.chalmers.se Details about employment The appointee must also have been admitted to Chalmers Doctoral Program. PhD student positions are limited to five years and will then normally include 20% departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Admission and employment are regulated in Chalmers' "Rules of Procedure for Doctoral Programs", §4 and §5. Salary follows the agreement for PhD student positions. Further information Research level: Professor Mary Sheeran e-mail ms'at'chalmers.se Division level: Graduate studies director Philippas Tsigas, e-mail: tsigas'at'chalmers.se Union representatives: SACO Jan Lindér, ST-ATF Marie Wenander, SEKO Ralf Berndtsson All reachable via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00