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Postdoctoral Researcher In Sustainable Ai And Cloud Computing
Posted on July 3, 2025
- Espoo, Finland
- No Salary information.
- Full Time

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The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to increased energy consumption in data centers, raising concerns about carbon emissions. To address these challenges and support sustainability goals, the project DecAI aims to decarbonize AI through long-term impact assessment and optimization. The goal is to develop a framework to estimate carbon emissions across AI's development, operation, and use. This framework enables stakeholders, such as AI providers and data center operators, to evaluate and compare scenarios to reduce emissions. The framework will be released as a software tool to guide emissions reduction strategies. The project aims to optimize the operations (serving) of AI by developing algorithms that manage compute, network, and storage resources in a carbon-efficient way while supporting long-term benefits for the electricity grid. By addressing AI's entire lifecycle, DecAI offers a holistic approach to reducing carbon emissions.
You will work closely with our team on tasks to:
- Identify and evaluate carbon metrics for reducing the environmental impact of AI and cloud computing
- Empirically evaluate different parts of the AI lifecycle, including development (training), operation (inference) and use
- Develop methodologies to estimate the long-term impact of AI on carbon emissions and other environmental indicators
- Build a software framework to quantify the long-term environmental impact of AI and cloud computing
- PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Excellent research track record in AI and sustainability or cloud computing
- Merit: Experience in estimating, measuring or optimizing energy and / or carbon emissions in networked systems
- Merit: Understanding of the environmental impact of hardware used for AI and / or cloud computing
- Ability to provide guidance and mentorship to doctoral researchers, and collaborate with diverse research groups
You will become a part of the Cloud and Network Computing group, headed by assistant professor Gopika Premsankar. Our group is dedicated to advancing research in networked systems, primarily focused on lowering the environmental footprint of such systems while enhancing sustainability, performance, and reliability. Our research leverages optimization techniques, applied machine learning, and statistical analysis to achieve these objectives. Through the DecAI project we will work closely with collaboration partners within Finland and internationally in the USA, Netherlands and Germany. There are opportunities for research visits to strengthen collaboration with leading experts in this field.
To apply, please share the following application materials (as PDFs) with us through our recruitment site ("Apply now!”):
- A CV
- A short letter of motivation, at most 1 page, which describes your interest and motivation (please try to include details that are not part of your CV and emphasize how you address the requirements listed above)
- List of publications with two key publications highlighted. Please describe in a short paragraph the relevance of the highlighted publications to the project.
- Sample code, preferably on a code repository. Provide a URL and describe in one paragraph your role in developing the software.
- Names and email addresses of two reference providers. They will be contacted directly at a later stage in the application process.
- Doctoral degree certificate (or information about defence, if defending soon)
Please send your application as soon as possible, at the latest October 31st, 2025. We will go through applications, and we will hire the right candidate as soon as we find them, possibly already during the application period.
We hope you have a strong interest and an ambition to make meaningful contributions in improving the sustainability of networked systems. We also expect you to be goal oriented and working with focus towards the goals of the project. We are a young and growing team; there is some flexibility in defining your specific research goals and you will work closely with the PI and doctoral students in developing your research.
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