Research Assistant (master thesis worker), information theory

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 16 000 students and 5 200 employees, including 446 professors. Our campus is in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

The Information Theory research team at Aalto University (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering) invites applications for a 6-month Research Assistant position for master thesis worker.

About the team

We work across discrete mathematics and information theory, including

coding theory, combinatorial algorithms, design theory, and graph theory.

Computational methods are central; the team operates a 500-core cluster.

We both compete with and leverage AI; see: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/researcher-cracks-new-kissing-number-bounds-besting-ai-in-the-process

Project focus

One class of structures we study is Hadamard matrices - orthogonal combinatorial objects with applications in quantum technology. In this position, you will develop and implement computational methods to investigate how a technique called switching transforms various types of Hadamard matrices.