Graduate Research Assistants, Postdoctoral Researchers

The Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) is always recruiting outstanding candidates for positions as Postdoctoral Researchers or Graduate Research Assistants (Ph.D.)

Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering

I-SENSE leads university-wide activities in Sensing and Smart Systems, one of Florida Atlantic University’s four areas of strategic research emphasis. The emphasis area represents two interconnected threads of inquiry, which serve as powerful catalysts for exploration and discovery across disciplines. The first is sensing, broadly defined as the digital acquisition of measurable stimuli, ranging from the capture of chemical parameters in ocean ecosystems, to the capture of physiological parameters in athletes and patients, to wireless spectrum sensing for next-generation communications and radar applications. Smart systems, the second thread of inquiry, is closely connected to sensing. Smart systems rely on networked sensors to provide real-time awareness and forecasting of conditions, trends, and patterns to support improved decision-making, and often, to automate the control of the sensed environment, vehicle, or object. Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) plays a central role in the design of these systems – the “smart” in smart systems. These systems offer tremendous application potential, both academically and commercially. This is evidenced by the emergence of all-things AI, including the AI Internet of Things and the rapid adoption of such systems across disparate domains, from ecology to transportation, to electrical grids, to geriatrics, to sports performance training, to ocean science, to military operations – and everything in-between. 

I-SENSE serves two principal functions. First, the Institute serves as an innovation hub for sensing, computing, communication, AI, connected autonomy, and cryptography, providing deep technical expertise and engineering support through its research and engineering cores. Second, the Institute serves as an interdisciplinary hub, cultivating research, education, and service initiatives that cut across academic, industry, and government partners; and provides the administrative support necessary to sustain those initiatives through its administrative core. Through an open and inclusive process that spanned academic units and campuses, three program areas were established within I-SENSE, representing areas of faculty strength, interest, and opportunity: Infrastructure Systems, Marine and Environment, and Health and Behavior, respectively.