PhD Thesis - Short Error-Correcting Codes for Reliable DNA-Based Data Storage

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Title: Short Error-Correcting Codes for Reliable DNA-Based Data Storage. Location: I3S Lab CNRS, 2000 Rte des Lucioles, 06900 Sophia Antipolis. Supervisors: Serge Kas Hanna (Junior Professor) and Marc Antonini (Directeur de Recherche). Expected starting date/duration: ASAP / 3 years. Funding: The PhD student will be recruited under the SECC-DNA project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) through its Young Researchers programme (JCJC). Context: DNA has emerged as a promising molecular alternative to conventional magnetic and electronic storage media due to its exceptional density, durability, and energy efficiency. One gram of DNA can theoretically store exabytes of data! However, storing data in synthetic DNA introduces insertion, deletion, and substitution errors, while synthesis technologies limit sequences to only a few hundred nucleotides in length. This PhD position is funded by the ANR JCJC SECC-DNA project, which focuses on developing short error-correcting codes for reliable and resource-efficient DNA storage. The student will design, implement, and analyze coding strategies for recovering data from noisy DNA sequencing reads, seeking to improve reliability while limiting redundancy and computational complexity. The work will also involve integrating the proposed codes into a complete DNA storage system and contributing to the preparation of experimental val