Phd Scholarship: Phased Array Feed Signal Processing

Swinburne University of Technology

To bring people and technology together to build a better world.

Swinburne University of Technology is a world-class university creating social and economic impacts through science, technology and innovation. In 2022, Swinburne ranked in the top 250 global universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), confirming its place in the top 1% of universities worldwide. Swinburne confirmed its place in the top 50 universities in the world under 50 years old, rising twelve places in the 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings.

This full-time PhD position focuses on developing a processing pipeline for multi-element Phased Array Feeds that are used for radio astronomy, employing commodity computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Phased Array Feeds can generate numerous independent beams to observe a wide field of view and simultaneously undertake enhanced signal analysis, surpassing current digital Signal Processing methods. 

• 🔦 Testing and QA
  

  Ensure high quality work by testing code meets the requirements

• 📦 Backend application development
  

  Develop, test, and maintain software applications

• 🔗 Frontend Application Development
  

  Develop, test, and maintain the user-side elements of a website or app

• 👥 Collaboration
  

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

• 🧮 Numerical problem solving
  

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• 🔍 Attention to detail
  

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables