The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute and Inovisoft are hiring researchers and professionals to work on a novel and exciting project entitled "SPAEN" aimed at revolutionizing corporate email.

About the project

Email is a pervasive communication medium, and most organizations use email to co-ordinate their activities and contact their clients. Due to its popularity, email is an excellent proxy for identifying and mapping social relationships that are generated as a by-product of daily activity. This 14-month project will develop a software platform that can passively monitor the email activity of organizations and generate enterprise-wide analytics regarding these relationships, also known as social capital. This technology has at least two potential applications: the use of analytics to monitor and assess organizations’ performance, and to identify opportunities in promoting enterprise-wide strategy and marketing communication. 

Job details 

Social network analyst:  This role requires a strong mathematical background, experience with hands-on development and programming, and familiarity with social network analysis and machine learning. Understanding of statistics, database programming, and symbolic computation (such as Matlab) are a benefit. You will be expected to develop an analysis system that captures, infers and categorizes relationships between people based on their patterns of email communication. The results of this analysis will be displayed by the front-end system developed in the other part of the project.

Further details

• Start date: September 1st 2010 (negotiable). 
• Duration: 14 months 
• Location of work: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. 
• Eligibility: All nationalities, must hold a first degree in a relevant subject. 
• Salary: 1300 euros per month 
• Holidays: 28 days paid holiday for the duration of the project 
• Benefits: National health insurance, which provides free access to Portugal's and Europe's health system. 

Please contact Vassilis Kostakos (vassilis@cmu.edu) for further information 

Applying for a post 

To submit an application please email a cover letter clearly indicating which post you are interested in, your CV and/or portfolio, and the names of at least 2 referees to Vassilis Kostakos (vassilis@cmu.edu). 

About us

The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (http://www.m-iti.org) is a unique research and development initiative dedicated to making technology more useful, more usable, and more accessible. Madeira-ITI is a not-for-profit innovation institute founded by the University of Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo, and Carnegie Mellon University. The institute was created in December 2009 in order to provide a home for the many collaborations between these partners, in both research and education. As of 2010, Madeira-ITI consists of 30 faculty and staff representing 20 different nationalities. For further job opportunities, please visit http://www.m-iti.org/jobs. 

Madeira is a mid-Atlantic island, positioned near the coast of Africa and the Canary Islands. It is one of the autonomous regions of Portugal. The mean annual temperature in the capital city, Funchal, can reach 20 °C. With its mild humidity, the weather of the island is classified as oceanic subtropical. Madeira has a high quality of living while the cost of living is one of the lowest in Europe.