Vacancies

GATE institute "Big Data for Smart Society" is a research institute, established in 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria as a joint initiative between Sofia University Bulgaria, Chalmers University of Technology and Chalmers Industrial Technology, Sweden. Its mission is to accelerate the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence research, innovation and education in collaboration with government, industry and society as a whole.

We are working on innovative solutions, which develop research excellence in three technology areas – Data Insight, Data Analytics and Data Management – and on a cross cutting area – Engineering and development. Moreover, we are working on advanced analytics solutions in four application domains – Future Cities, Intelligent Government, Smart Industry and Digital Health, which are now in the front line for creating actionable value for society, bringing human centricity and better decision-making to the stakeholders.

We offer diverse opportunities for career growth, foster research freedom and provide maximum support for personal initiative.

With respect to its planned intensive development in 2020, we are looking for young talents to join our internship programme.

With respect to its planned intensive development in 2020, GATE CoE is looking for а:

Young talents

Skills and experience

• A Bachelor (III – IV year) or a Master-degree student in ICT
• Strong motivation to carry out research and produce results under supervision
• Love for insights and aptitude of critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas
• Understanding of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, data management, analytics and visualization
• Experience with programming (e.g. Python, Java, C++, Scala or other)
• Excellent English

What we offer

• 1-3 months internship
• Attractive stipends
• Hands-on experience of thriving research
• Work in bright, friendly and energetic international teams
• Live projects, extensive coaching and career counseling
• Development of professional skills and competences in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Opportunity to join GATE team as a junior researcher

Expectations and tasks

As an intern in our team you may be involved in our City Digital Twin project:

• Exploration of alternatives for spatial data storage and analysis, including relational geo-database paradigm (i.e. PostgreSQL and PostGIS) and graph databases (i.e. neo4j)
• Exploration of various and commonalities of different standards covering different aspects of a city model (IFC, CityJSON and CityGML, LandInfra, etc.)
• Data integration in a way that is meaningful and can be used in different application scenarios of urban analysis, modelling, simulation and visualization
• Development of semantic 3D data models in JSON or GML formats (e.g. CityJSON or CityGML)
• Development of spatially-resolved simulations of a broad range of city scenarios (urban climate, the transport of goods and people, infrastructure development, buildings’ energy performance, air and noise pollution, etc.)

For additional information, please contact: Assoc. prof. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, email: dessislava.petrova@gate-ai.eu

As an intern in our team you may be involved in our Digital Health project:

• Exploration of very large databases of Genetic data
• Deploying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods to predict the progression of diseases
• Finding structural variants and differentially expressed genes using high-throughput sequencing data

For additional information, please contact: Assoc. prof. Dean Palejev, email: dean.palejev@gate-ai.eu

As an intern in Data Analytics Research Group you will be involved in research and development of:

• Infrastructure for Big Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Statistics, etc.)
• Methods and infrastructure for Natural Language Processing
• Mechanisms for explainable AI (e.g. enabling a deep network to explain its decision)
• With prominent applications in: disinformation detection, e-health, e-government, etc

For additional information, please contact: Prof. Ivan Koychev, email: ivan.koychev@gate-ai.eu

How to apply

If you feel like you would fit in with our team, please don’t hesitate to send your CV and/or short presentation to sylvia@gate-ai.eu until 30.06.2020.

By applying for these positions, you voluntarily provide your personal data and consent to be processed for the purpose of internship programme and selection of participants. The processing of your personal data shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), the Personal Data Protection Law and related legal acts in Bulgaria.

Internship duration and place: 01.07.2020 - 30.09.2020, 125 “Tsarigradsko shose”, Block 2.

Only short-list candidates will be contacted.

For additional information, please contact:
Prof. Sylvia Ilieva, Director, GATE
e-mail: sylvia@gate-ai.eu
tel.: 02/971 04 00