Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 3-year Fixed-term appointments
Remuneration:  $97,203 - $115,429 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

Monash University strongly advocates diversity, equality, fairness and openness. We fully support the gender equity principles of the Athena SWAN Charter and invite you to join us in celebrating women in STEMM.

The Opportunity

The most prestigious and generous research opportunity in Australia is undoubtedly the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, and Monash University is enormously proud that our very own Deputy Dean of the Faculty of IT, Professor John Grundy, has recently been accorded this esteemed award. As such, an extraordinary opportunity now exists for 3 Research Fellows to join Professor Grundy on the Laureate Fellow programme exploring human-centric, model-driven software engineering.

This Laureate programme aims to develop fundamentally new ways to capture and use human-centric software requirements during model-driven software engineering and verifying that systems meet these requirements. Major issues currently exist with misaligned software applications in terms of accessibility, usability, emotions, personality, age, gender, and culture. Software systems and their development practices largely ignore many human-centric issues, resulting in software that poorly meets diverse user requirements and needs, especially for young, ageing, disabled or other vulnerable people.

This programme aims to address these through new conceptual foundations and modelling techniques for their support during software engineering. The intended outcomes are enhanced theory, models, tools and capability for next-generation software engineering that incorporate these critical elements. Key outcomes of the project will lead to IT jobs and companies using a brand new paradigm for human-centric software system engineering.  Benefits will include software that better meets and adapts to diverse end user needs, and software able to underpin better business practices, community living, ageing and education.

The aims of the project are best described in the words of the Laureate Fellow himself.

“As Australia’s population continues to age and diversify, it's imperative to ensure all perspectives are considered so products can be enjoyed by all," notes Professor Grundy. “Through this generous fellowship, I hope to grow my research team in order to explore how age, gender, culture, language and disability impact the manufacturing process in products like smart homes so they are a help, not a hindrance, to the end-users,"

Whilst similar, the three positions will each take a specific focus across this fascinating project.

The first Research Fellow position will focus on the development of a human-centric requirements living lab used to underpin the rest of the research programme. They will lead the work on developing a set of novel human-centric Domain Specific Visual Language (DSVL) design principles and us these to assist the work on defining a range of new human-centric DSVLs to better model human-centric requirements. They will also apply these principles to augmented design-level models and to software testing techniques with other Research Fellows and PhDs.

The second Research Fellow position will focus on the development of a set of techniques and tools to extract human-centric requirements from diverse sources e.g. text, images, videos, etc. These extracted human-centric requirements will be formalised using Domain-Specific Visual Language (DSVL)-based models.

The third Research Fellow position will focus on incorporating human-centric requirements into model-driven engineering. The idea is to incorporate a wide range of human-centric software requirements in design models and use these when generating code and configurations from these models. These models will be formalised using Domain-Specific Visual Language (DSVL)-based models.

Each research fellow will lead an aspect of the Laureate programme’s engagement activities. One will take charge of student projects associated with the Laureate programme e.g. Honours students, Masters students, Final year capstone projects, and Monash Generator projects. One will take charge of schools outreach activities and relationships for the Laureate programme. One will take the lead in developing and maintaining industry partnerships for the Laureate programme.

In line with this Laureate programme’s aims to improve the incorporation of human diversity into software engineering processes and engineered software, a diverse team is desired. Applications from people from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged.

While the roles are intended to be full-time, a part-time role will also be considered for the best candidate(s), flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

At Monash University, we are committed to being a Child Safe organisation. Some positions at the University may require the incumbent to hold a valid Working with Children Check.

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to “How to apply for Monash Jobs”.

Enquiries

Professor John Grundy, 03 9905 8854, john.grundy@monash.edu

Position Description

Research Fellow RF1

Research Fellow RF2

Research Fellow RF3

Closing Date

Thursday 5 December 2019, 11:55 pm AEDT