Transcript Performance Engineering Lab – Overview and Project Proposal

Experience & Future of Industrial
Placement of Doctoral Students
John Murphy
UCD School of
Computer Science & Informatics
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Overview
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Description of PEL
Experience of placements
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Future of placements
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Final destinations
Placement type and duration
UCD Structured PhD
Benefits and costs
Issues to deal with
Conclusion
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Performance Engineering Laboratory
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Group spanning two universities – UCD & DCU
4 full-time academics run the group
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Competitive funding in excess of €4m in last 5 years
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Largely from Enterprise Ireland, EU, IRCSET, companies
Good industrial linkages
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4 research fellows & post-docs, 6 developers, consultants, ~20
post-grads (mainly PhD)
IBM, Vodafone, Sun, Iona, Rococo, Eircom, Clearwire, Shenick,
S3, Intune, Seimens, France Telecom, Microsoft Research UK,
Sun USA, INRIA".
Strong emphasis on applied research with commercial potential
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19 PhDs Considered
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Vasken Genc UCD – France Telecom
Yu Yang UCD – Nokia, Sweeden
John Fitzpatrick, June 2008, UCD –
Univ. of Oklahoma
Brian Carrig, June 2008, Carlow IT
Trevor Parsons November 2007, UCD
Olga Ormond, November 2007, UCD –
UC Irvine
Mircea Trofin, January 2007, UCD –
Siemens Germany
Alexander Ufimtsev December 2006,
UCD – Carleton, Canada
Bartek Klusek, July 2006, DCU
Hubert Graja, May 2006, UCD
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Ada Diaconescu, April 2006, DCU –
INRIA France
James Noonan, January 2006, UCD –
UC Irvine
Cristina Hava Muntean June 2005,
DCU
Dawid Nowak, April 2005, DCU
Hugh Melvin October 2004, UCD
Mirek Narbutt September 2004, UCD
Nicola Cranley September 2004, UCD
Adrian Mos, June 2004, DCU – SUN
California
Gabriel Muntean, September 2003,
DCU
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Final destinations
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Data from September 2003 to June 2008 (5 years)
Academic Institutions - 8
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Commercial Companies - 9
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Academics in other institutions – 3 (1 was existing)
Post-doc in other Irish University – 2
Research officer in Ireland – 1
Post-doc in PEL – 1
Technical staff in UCD – 1
Irish Companies – 5
US Companies – 2
France R&D Companies – 2
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Placements Type
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Of the 17 graduates, 7 were placed during their PhD
University placement – 4
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Company placement – 3
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Mircea Trofin, January 2007, UCD – Siemens Germany
Ada Diaconescu, April 2006, DCU – INRIA France
Adrian Mos, June 2004, DCU – SUN California
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John Fitzpatrick, June 2008, UCD – Univ. of Oklahoma
Olga Ormond, November 2007, UCD – UC Irvine
Alexander Ufimtsev December 2006, UCD – Carleton, Canada
James Noonan, January 2006, UCD – UC Irvine
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Vasken Genc UCD – France Telecom
Yu Yang UCD – Nokia, Sweeden
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Placements Duration
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Varied from under 2 months to 5 months
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7 weeks Olga Ormond, November 2007, UCD – UC Irvine
7 weeks James Noonan, January 2006, UCD – UC Irvine
2+1 month Alexander Ufimtsev December 2006, UCD – Carleton, Canada
3 months Adrian Mos, June 2004, DCU – SUN California
3 months Vasken Genc UCD – France Telecom
4 months John Fitzpatrick, June 2008, UCD – Univ. of Oklahoma
4 months Ada Diaconescu, April 2006, DCU – INRIA France
4 months Yu Yang UCD – Nokia, Sweeden
5 months Mircea Trofin, January 2007, UCD – Siemens Germany
Typical duration seems to be 3 or 4 months
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UCD Structured PhD since 2006
 UCD Research and Professional Development Plan
 Nearly 2,000 research students (150+ PhD in CSI)
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Introduction to Core Research Skills
Project Management for Research
Basic Skills for Teaching in a University
Innovation and Knowledge Transfer I
Innovation and Knowledge Transfer II: Transferring Technology from Research
to the Knowledge Economy
 Supervisor, Moderator, Doctoral Committee
 Graduate School across disciplines and universities
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Benefits & Costs
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Benefits
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Costs
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Network to excellent researchers
Relevance of research to industrial applications
Exposure and experience of foreign workplace
Time out from research
Funding mechanism
Focus of research
Will they return to study
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22 Feb 2006
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Future of Placements
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Main issues to deal with are
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Funding (IRCSET, SFI, EI, EU, other)
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
Administrative details
Time for structured and placements
Scalability of pilot (people and money)
PEL will continue to do these ad-hoc
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Questions…
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