Research Engineer (contract till 30 Oct 2021), SCIS

Singapore Management University

Downtown Core

Job Description

Education Level

Masters

Company Description

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organize and play together – building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities – all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

Job Description

• Conduct literature research and survey related work on AI-based learning and data intelligence in decentralized setting. 
• Process heterogeneous data from various sources including social media, smart devices and clinics.
• Designing consensus protocols and algorithms to carry out data intelligence tasks in a decentralized setting for collaborative data sharing for healthcare problems.
• Carrying out experimental and empirical work, refining the approaches used, and analyzing the data that are obtained
• Writing up the results, and to evaluate their robustness and theoretical soundness

Qualification

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines 
• Minimum 2 years of relevant research experience in decentralized computing and applications Proficiency in at least one of the programming software/languages such as Python, C/C++ and R is required
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members
• Demonstrated experience and know-how on working on consensus protocol design and decentralized computing technologies
• Excellent working knowledge of machine learning packages and open-source tools
• Good analytical, technical and problem-solving skills
• Applicants with research publications in data mining, machine learning and blockchain area will be advantageous
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Other Information

Additional Information

Career Level

Manager

Qualification

Master's Degree

Years of Experience

2 years

Job Type

Contract

Job Specializations

Education/Training, Education

Company Overview

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together – building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities – all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

Additional Company Information

Registration No.

200000267Z

Company Size

501 - 1000 Employees

Industry

Education

Benefits & Others

Dental, Medical, Sports (e.g. Gym), Parking, Regular hours, Mondays - Fridays, Business (e.g. Shirts)