Jobs
Join the CERC Team as a Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Professional or Technician. Check out the open positions below.
Posted on: March 31, 2022
Deadline: April 14, 2022
Start date: April 19, 2022
End date: April 18, 2024 (renewable)
Hours of work: 35 hours per week (full time), with flexible schedule
Department: CERC / Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location of work: 2155 Guy St., Montreal, QC H3H 2L9
Scope
Reporting to Dr. Ursula Eicker (CERC), the Program Coordinator manages the daily operations of the CERC unit/program, including administrative operations, student advising, recruitment, communications, and development activities as well as functional supervision of office staff.
Responsibilities
- Manage the daily operations of the unit.
- Assist the Chair with the development of short- and long-term strategies to achieve CERC’s objectives.
- Serve as the main channel of communication for the CERC; interact with students, researchers, and targeted community members and organizations.
- Manage and administer unit’s budget accounts.
- Ensure effectiveness of the unit’s administrative processes through planning, revising and updating procedures, and by implementing improvements to existing processes. Prepare reports and conduct analyses of administrative operations.
- Hire, train, assign work, monitor, evaluate, and motivate unit’s office staff.
- Provide information and organization to the CERC team and its sub-teams.
- Serve as the first point of contact for CERC members for HR related enquiries. Coordinate recruitment strategy and process. Onboard and offboard new students and staff members. Coordinate member experience initiatives including training activities and workshops for trainees.
- Ensure proper information management.
- Coordinate the preparation of program’s activities reports.
- Coordinate the procurement of supplies and equipment for the unit.
- Liaise with internal units such as Financial Services, Procurement Services, Human Resources, Research and Graduate Studies, IITS/AITS, Communications Services, Facilities Management, GCS Dean’s Office, BCEE department, and others as needed.
- Prepare and disseminate communications materials with the assistance of the team assistant. Administer unit’s website and manage internal newsletters.
- Provide outreach and logistical support to the Chair in creating partnerships with external stakeholders.
- Assist with internal and external research grant applications for the CERC and its research fellows.
- Perform other duties in support of the operation of the unit.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in a pertinent field and two to four years related work experience.
- Good spoken and written English (Level 4) to communicate effectively with students, staff, faculty and external contacts.
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Knowledge of University policies and procedures (asset).
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deal sensitively with individuals.
- Ability to multi-task and work under pressure in a team environment.
- Strong planning, organizational, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Salary
$29 per hour
Union/Association
CARE
Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a cover letter and portfolio to cerc@concordia.ca
IMPORTANT: The language and computer skills of short-listed candidates will be tested.
Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Posted on: March 31, 2021
Deadline: April 25, 2021
Start date: May 15, 2022
End date: May 14, 2024 (renewable)
Hours of work: 40 hours per week (full time), with flexible schedule
Department: CERC / Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location of work: 2155 Guy St., Montreal, QC H3H 2L9
Scope
The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Communities and Cities is seeking an outstanding and motivated Junior Software Developer to help with the implementation of the Insel4Cities platform. Reporting to Dr. Ursula Eicker (CERC) and functionally to Guillermo Morote (Senior Software Engineer), the incumbent will play a key role in the CERC's urban platform development, by contributing to the development of a simulation software and a city digital twin.
Responsibilities
- Software development for a city digital twin.
- Platform API development.
- Writing and maintaining unit tests.
- Backend infrastructure.
- Bug fixing and documenting.
- IT support.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in a pertinent field and +1 year related work experience.
- Good spoken and written English (Level 4) to communicate effectively with the team.
- Data management (SQL).
- Python, C++, C#, PHP, Java and JavaScript knowledge is a plus.
- High motivation and teamwork mindset.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Salary
$63,000 per annum ($30.29 per hour – 40 hours per week)
Union/Association
CARE
Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a cover letter and portfolio to cerc@concordia.ca
IMPORTANT: The language and programming skills of short-listed candidates will be tested.
Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Posted on: March 29, 2022
Deadline: April 8, 2022
Start date: May 2, 2022
End date: August 31, 2022
Hours of work: 35 hours per week (undergraduate summer internship)
Department: CERC / Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Supervisor: Dr. Ursula Eicker
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with programmers to share and assign coding tasks.
- Translate design ideas into clean and efficient code.
- 3D world navigation and 3D user interface development.
- Real-world behaviours of objects and systems based on simulation calculations.
- Audio-visual feedback systems and displays.
Requirements
- A preferred candidate is currently a student in computer science, electrical engineering, or other programming-oriented majors.
- Be comfortable with a range of languages and open-source tools and frameworks and make good decisions about which to use to solve a particular problem.
- Have flexibility to work on the team’s most pressing problems.
- Preferred candidates will have strong problem solving and creativity skills coupled with knowledge of current technologies used commonly for the topics above.
- Ability to work in a team with diverse backgrounds and regular meetings, deadlines, and close supervision.
- Good knowledge (Level 4) of spoken and written English.
Salary
PhD Student: $29 / hr
Master Student: $22 / hr
Undergraduate Student: $18 / hr
Union/Association
TRAC
Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a cover letter and portfolio to cerc@concordia.ca
IMPORTANT: The interview will consist of an introductory meeting followed by a technical hands-on coding session.
Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Research program title
Explainable AI approaches for smart buildings applications
Reference number
9001
Supervisors
Nizar Bouguila and Ursula Eicker
Program description
Recently, the progress in Internet of Things platforms has allowed the collection of large amounts of sensing data. Using this large-scale sensing data in real-world applications is a challenging problem. Motivated by applications related to smart buildings, the goal of this research program is to develop explainable AI techniques for challenging tasks using sensor data. Examples of tasks include but not limited to: estimating and predicting the approximate number of people in a smart building, recognizing the occupants’ activities, predicting future activity occurrence time, energy consumption forecasting, etc.
Academic qualifications required
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Buildings or related fields with experience in machine learning, data mining.
Eligibility requirements
- Applicants must not currently hold a postdoctoral appointment at Concordia
- Priority will be given to postdoctoral fellows who have obtained their PhD from another university although in exceptional cases Concordia graduates may be considered
Applicants must adhere to the postdoctoral fellow eligibility criteria outlined in - Concordia University’s Postdoctoral Policy.
Timeline
The Postdoctoral Fellow must start their appointment by May 1, 2022.
Submission process
- All documents must be submitted to Niyusha Samadi at Horizon.Postdocs@concordia.ca
- Please include the reference number with your application
Application checklist
- One to three (1-3) page research statement demonstrating fit with the program described above
- Current curriculum vitae demonstrating research excellence and a capacity for leadership in the domain (maximum 5 pages)
- Two letters of reference from academic supervisors or current employers to be sent via e-mail directly to Niyusha Samadi
Value
The prestigious two-year Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowships are valued at $50,000 per year plus benefits and full access to Concordia’s services, including GradProSkills.
We are looking for students (undergraduate or graduate) with strong software engineering, computer science or system engineering skills for a range of topics:
- data and simulation result visualization for urban platform
- IoT and urban sensor data communication and analysis
- coding support for urban modeling and data analytics platform
To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter in one PDF file to cerc@concordia.ca