Research Assistant in Big Data (Part Time, Fixed Term) - INTERNAL ONLY (COS311A)

The Research Assistant will be a key player in the delivery of the UK Innovate-funded project ‘The Development of Dynamic Energy Control Mechanisms for Food Retailing Refrigeration Systems’. This post is based at the University of Lincoln, one of the partners of the project, led by Intelligent Maintenance Systems Ltd. Other partners are Tesco Stores Ltd and The Grimsby Institute (GIFHE).

The aims of the project are a large scale demonstration of the application of firm frequency (FFR) demand side response (DSR) mechanisms during the control of a massive distributed network of food retailing refrigerators. During the life of the project, a large scale test of FFR DSR to a significant proportion of the Tesco food retailing refrigerating equipment will be undertaken. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary research team with strong links to industry. The Research Assistant will form part of a group of two other Postdoctoral Research Fellows delivering the project at the University of Lincoln.

You will focus on the Big Data Analysis and its impact on how the system can be controlled in real time amongst huge incoming data set from 112,000 refrigerators dispersed across the UK. Applicants must have a good honours degree in Computer Science or Engineering related or a relevant analytical subject, and/or Masters degree, or near completion, in Data Science or Machine Learning. Applicants should have experience with computing techniques, such as statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining/compression and data visualization. Additional knowledge in Control systems and optimization would be an advantage. Skills and experience with big data tools such as Hadoop and Apache Spark, data loading tools such as Sqoop and Flume, and/or programming languages such as Python, R and C, and data transformation and processing in different environments and formats, are highly desirable.

The post is fixed-term in line with the length of the research project, which concludes on 31st August 2018.

Applicants wanting an informal discussion about the post can contact the Principal Investigator Prof. Simon Pearson (spearson@lincoln.ac.uk) or the Co-Investigators Dr Georgios Leontidis (gleontidis@lincoln.ac.uk), Dr Argyrios Zolotas (azolotas@lincoln.ac.uk) and Prof. Ronald Bickerton (rbickerton@lincoln.ac.uk).

This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Tier 2.

Closing Date: 21 Jan 2018
Category: Internal Only Vacancies