Postdoc: Atypical Mobile Network Traffic Analytics

Inria; Villeurbanne; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Partial reimbursement of public travel

Leave: 7 weeks + RTT + exceptional-lea

Teleworking after 6 months

Professional equipment available

Social, cultural and sports events

Job summary

Inria Lyon is offering a post-doctoral fellowship in the Agora team to analyze mobile network traffic in atypical situations. The candidate will collaborate with Dr. Razvan Stanica from the Inria Agora team and with researchers across computer science, transportation, and geography.

The position is funded within National French PEPR projects on Natural Risks and Mobility Digitalization. Teaching involvement at INSA Lyon is possible but not mandatory.

Qualifications

• The candidates should have a master or PhD degree on network and/or data-related topics.
• Experience with data analysis in Python or R is expected.
• Good personal and project management skills are required to function in this multi-disciplinary multi-team project.

Responsibilities

• Propose analytical tools and research questions exploiting the mobile phone data with autonomy to explore new ideas built on these datasets.
• Extraction of repetitive patterns from mobile telephony data to construct typical user and network behaviour and baselines for comparisons during atypical situations.
• Spatio-temporal characterization of atypical situations, with emphasis on extreme weather events (flooding) in the south of France.
• Advise undergraduate and Master students for research-related projects.

Skills

Data analysis

Mobility data analysis

Education

Master's degree or PhD in network and/or data-related topics

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Inria Lyon is offering a post-doctoral fellowship in the Agora team to analyze mobile network traffic in atypical situations. The candidate will collaborate with Dr. Razvan Stanica from the Inria Agora team and with researchers across computer science, transportation, and geography.

The position is funded within National French PEPR projects on Natural Risks and Mobility Digitalization. Teaching involvement at INSA Lyon is possible but not mandatory.