Your Job:
As a doctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Susanne Kunkel at the institute Neuromorphic Software Ecosystems (PGI-15), you will contribute to the advancement of simulation technology for large-scale spiking neural networks. In close collaboration with our Mod4Comp partners (DFG Forschergruppe FOR 5880), you will develop models of performance and energy to guide the co-design of software and hardware for future neuromorphic systems. You will also gain profound experience in research-software engineering by actively participating in the developer community of the leading simulation code NEST:
Your tasks in detail:
1. Work with the NEST main code base and experimental branches
2. Dissect the spiking network simulation cycle into phases and capture the flow of spikes by a model
3. Develop proxy apps representing the different processing stages of spiking network simulation code (targeting CPU and accelerators such as GPU or IPU)
4. Systematic benchmarking of proxy apps and simulations of established real-world spiking network models on different computing systems and analysis of results
5. Collaborate closely with local (IAS-6) and national (TU Dresden, FAU Erlangen) Mod4Comp partners as well as the NEST developer community
6. Actively participate in everyday life at PGI-15 and its partner institute PGI-14
7. Publish research articles, regular participation in top international conferences to present your work, regular participation in project meetings
8. Enhance your skills through specialized training, advanced courses in C++
9. Support the dissemination of software tools and concepts
10. Supervise student projects and BSc/MSc theses