1. www.perfenglab.com Experience & Future of Industrial Placement of Doctoral Students John Murphy UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics

2. 2 Overview Description of PEL Experience of placements – Final destinations – Placement type and duration – UCD Structured PhD – Benefits and costs Future of placements – Issues to deal with Conclusion www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

3. 3 Performance Engineering Laboratory Group spanning two universities – UCD & DCU 4 full-time academics run the group – 4 research fellows & post-docs, 6 developers, consultants, ~20 post-grads (mainly PhD) Competitive funding in excess of €4m in last 5 years – Largely from Enterprise Ireland, EU, IRCSET, companies Good industrial linkages – 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 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

4. 19 PhDs Considered www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008 4 1. Vasken Genc UCD – France Telecom 2. Yu Yang UCD – Nokia, Sweeden 3. John Fitzpatrick, June 2008, UCD – Univ. of Oklahoma 4. Brian Carrig, June 2008, Carlow IT 5. Trevor Parsons November 2007, UCD 6. Olga Ormond, November 2007, UCD – UC Irvine 7. Mircea Trofin, January 2007, UCD – Siemens Germany 8. Alexander Ufimtsev December 2006, UCD – Carleton, Canada 9. Bartek Klusek, July 2006, DCU 10. Hubert Graja, May 2006, UCD 11. Ada Diaconescu, April 2006, DCU – INRIA France 12. James Noonan, January 2006, UCD – UC Irvine 13. Cristina Hava Muntean June 2005, DCU 14. Dawid Nowak, April 2005, DCU 15. Hugh Melvin October 2004, UCD 16. Mirek Narbutt September 2004, UCD 17. Nicola Cranley September 2004, UCD 18. Adrian Mos, June 2004, DCU – SUN California 19. Gabriel Muntean, September 2003, DCU

5. Final destinations Data from September 2003 to June 2008 (5 years) Academic Institutions - 8 – 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 Commercial Companies - 9 – Irish Companies – 5 – US Companies – 2 – France R&D Companies – 2 5 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

6. Placements Type Of the 17 graduates, 7 were placed during their PhD University placement – 4 – 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 Company placement – 3 – Mircea Trofin, January 2007, UCD – Siemens Germany – Ada Diaconescu, April 2006, DCU – INRIA France – Adrian Mos, June 2004, DCU – SUN California A further 2 current PhD students have been placed – Vasken Genc UCD – France Telecom – Yu Yang UCD – Nokia, Sweeden 6 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

7. Placements Duration Varied from under 2 months to 5 months – 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 7 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

8. UCD Structured PhD since 2006  UCD Research and Professional Development Plan  Nearly 2,000 research students (150+ PhD in CSI)  Central modules and Domain specific modules  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 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

9. Benefits & Costs Benefits – Network to excellent researchers – Relevance of research to industrial applications – Exposure and experience of foreign workplace Costs – Time out from research – Funding mechanism – Focus of research – Will they return to study CELTIC Information Day 22 Feb 2006 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2006 9

10. Future of Placements Main issues to deal with are – 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 10 www.perfenglab.com © PEL 2008

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