Job Description

The National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Research Assistant in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, School of Computing. The School of Computing is strongly committed to research excellence in all its dimensions: Searching for fundamental results and insights, developing novel computational solutions to a wide range of applications, building large-scale experimental systems and improving the well-being of society. We seek to play an active role both internationally and locally in the core and emerging areas of Computer Science and Information Systems.

 
The Research Assistant will be responsible for working closely with the Principal Investigator and lab members on one or more research projects. He/she should possess experience or interest in at least one of the following research areas:
 

Key responsibilities:

• Build a tree based private blockchain system for the given specification. It is a tree structure with hash based dependency for validation similar to blockchain.
• Evaluate the tree based system for efficiency, accuracy, scalability, throughput and energy efficiency through simulations with varying data complexities.
• Build an application using the tree based structure and gather insights from users, developers or businesses leveraging BlockForest, focusing on ease of usage/integration and practical benefits.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Computer Science or related area;  
• Good knowledge in Blockchain technologies; and
• Experience in research

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: School of Computing

Department : Department of Computer Science

Employee Referral Eligible: No

Job requisition ID : 27026