Center for Resilient Networks and Applications ( CRNA ) at Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway) is looking for a highly motivated candidate to join our team as a research fellow and pursue PhD thesis in agentic AI communications within resilient critical network systems.
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Job Description
As society increasingly relies on data communications and AI-driven services, ensuring the resilience, security, and efficiency of the underlying ICT infrastructure becomes increasingly important. The emergence of autonomous AI agents that communicate, coordinate, and collaborate across distributed environments introduces new networking challenges, including reliable agent-to-agent communication, low-latency coordination, resource-aware information exchange, and resilience to network disruptions, congestion, and security threats.
CRNA was established to address these problems. We combine world-class theoretical and empirical research on the robustness and security of ICT infrastructures with real-world critical applications that keep the society running. We collaborate closely with Oslo Metropolitan , as well as industry and public sector in Norway and abroad.
Our research is structured around two main pillars:
Network resilience and sovereignty: Research on networking architectures, protocols, and mechanisms that enable critical networks and applications to remain reliable, secure, and operational under varying conditions, including failures, overload, and malicious activity.
Artificial intelligence and networking: Research on applying AI to improve network performance, security, automation, and self-healing capabilities, as well as investigating how networking can support distributed AI systems, autonomous agents, and emerging Internet of Agents architectures.
A key research direction is AI communications, focusing on the communication, coordination, and resilience requirements of distributed AI agents. This includes investigating mechanisms for agent discovery and communication, network-aware coordination, adaptive resource allocation, and reliable collaboration across cloud, edge, IoT, and cellular environments. The goal is to develop networking solutions that allow autonomous agents to operate efficiently and securely despite dynamic network conditions and partial failures. CRNA operates advanced laboratory and experimental facilities, including cellular network testbeds, IoT infrastructure, satellite communication systems, and data center facilities. These resources enable research and evaluation of networking mechanisms under realistic conditions.
CRNA is seeking a new colleague for a full-time, 3-year Research Fellow position . The successful candidate will contribute to research at the intersection of networking and AI, with particular emphasis on resilient network support for distributed AI systems and the emerging Internet of Agents.
Successful applicants must have
Excellent command of foundational and applied AI technology, from neural networks, distributed reinforcement learning to agentic AI and recent developments in this rapidly evolving field,
Solid understanding of IP networking across various wired and wireless technologies and scenarios from host-internal communications to WAN and inter-domain networking, as well as general understanding of telecommunications and cellular networks
Good understanding of virtualization and container orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
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