Postdocs in Optimization and Control of Complex Systems

Job description

The challenge: 
Energy, transportation, and other critical infrastructures are undergoing an unprecedented shift in scale, autonomy, and decentralization. These transformations bring vast opportunities to improve efficiency and sustainability but also pose serious challenges in ensuring their reliability and fairness. Addressing these societal-scale challenges demands for novel optimization and control methodologies that can meet their inherent complexities.
Your role:
The Division of Decision and Control Systems is seeking two postdocs to join our team under Prof. Giuseppe Belgioioso’s supervision. The successful candidate will conduct research at the intersection of optimization, game theory, and automatic control for complex systems. Their work will encompass both the mathematical foundations of these fields — e.g., designing innovative algorithms and control strategies — as well as the development of technical solutions to adapt these new methods to practical applications in the areas of energy and mobility. The research project will address one or more of the specific research areas in the following (non-exhaustive) list:

• Online feedback optimization
• Game-theoretic control (e.g., game-theoretic MPC)
• Hierarchical game theory for incentive design
• Defining, measuring, and operationalizing fairness in control methods
• Predictive control for large-scale systems
• Theory of control architectures

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH
• Affiliation to Wallengerg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program

About WASP: Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) is Sweden’s largest individual research program ever, a major national initiative for strategically motivated basic research, education and faculty recruitment. The program addresses research on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems acting in collaboration with humans, adapting to their environment through sensors, information and knowledge, and forming intelligent systems-of-systems. The vision of WASP is excellent research and competence in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and software for the benefit of Swedish society and industry. Read more: https://wasp-sweden.org/

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Qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• A strong foundation in mathematical tools relevant to the project, particularly optimization and control theory.
• A demonstrated record of exceptional research achievements and publications in high-impact venues.
• Proficiency in programming languages and computational tools applicable to the field.
• Advanced analytical skills, with a proven ability to work independently and collaboratively within interdisciplinary teams.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively disseminate research findings and collaborate with team members.
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Expertise in one or more of the specific research areas relevant for this position
• Knowledge on relevant engineering fields relevant for this post, such as electrical power grids, energy markets, smart mobility, data centers, and supply chains.
• Proven experience in collaborating with industrial partners, including joint research or technology transfer activities.
• Prior experience mentoring bachelor’s and master’s students

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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To apply for the position

Log into KTH's recruitment system to apply for this position. You are responsible for ensuring that your application is complete according to the instructions in the ad.

• CV, including a list of publications and the name of at least 2 professional references
• Motivation letter (1 page max)
• Research statement (2 page max w/o references)
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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