Research Assistant

This post is full time, and has funding for up to 12 months

The James Watt School of Engineering is looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to a project entitled DIGITAL TWINS FOR NET ZERO (DTs4Net0) working with Professor Fiona Bradley and the energy modelling software development company IES.

The EPSRC IAA project that you will work on aims to develop and enhance Building Energy Management techniques in combination with Digital Twin (DT) technology to improve the utilisation of real-time energy and environmental sensor data. This will significantly improve data analysis accuracy and usability, ultimately enabling the creation and validation of more targeted and efficient energy-saving building operation strategies.

Presently, energy consultancy firms and facilities departments in large public buildings are tending to focus primarily on advancing data analysis techniques in combination with the development of Digital Twin software. DTs4Net0 will focus instead on data quality and data safety and techniques to interpret, manage, enhance and analyse preliminary IoT data quality.

Digital platforms such as Building Management Systems (BMS) are complex and operational efficiency is totally dependent on the quality of data that is gathered from IoT sensors as well as the control and algorithm settings within the BMS software. It is therefore vital that an additional step in the process occurs between data gathering and analysis ie that gathered raw data is accurately examined and enhanced prior to processing. This project will therefore examine and develop data cleaning, processing and analysing algorithms and involve coding development to improve data acquisition, automate data processing and enhance analysis in order to provide customised, reliable energy-saving solutions.

The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help manage and direct this complex and challenging project as opportunities allow.

For informal discussions about the role, please contact Professor Fiona Bradley (Fiona.Bradley@glasgow.ac.uk)

For more information on the University of Glasgow’s, James Watt School of Engineering, please visit www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering

For more information and to apply online: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-assistant-16?source=gla.ac.uk

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