[TYPES/announce] Postdoc Position at Royal Holloway, University of London (Deadline Feb 28, 2015)

[Kinder, Johannes]

The recently-established Systems Security Research Lab (http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk), led by Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro within the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway University of London, is seeking to appoint 1 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) to work on the recently-awarded 4-year EPSRC-funded project "MobSec: Malware and Security in the Mobile Age" (http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk/projects/mobsec/), part of the EPSRC BACCHUS call.

The overall goal of MobSec is to improve the security of mobile devices by reducing the risk from installing and using third party applications. To this end, MobSec aims to build on top of the VM-based system call-centric dynamic analysis system CopperDroid, which has been developed in the lab, as a freely accessible service to analyze Android applications (http://copperdroid.isg.rhul.ac.uk). More information on MobSec is available at http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk/projects/mobsec/

The Principal Investigator Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro's research expertise is in systems security and malware analysis; in addition, the project benefits from the expertise of Dr Johannes Kinder (co-Investigator, program analysis and symbolic execution) and a partnership with Intel Security (formerly known as McAfee Labs).

The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline (or should be close to defending it), with emphasis on Computer Security (desirable), must have a strong research track record and a proven ability to find innovative solutions. The ideal candidate must further be self-motivated, possess software development skills, and be experienced in the following areas:

   * Systems security and malware analysis & detection;
   * Having explored machine learning, static / dynamic program analysis, or symbolic execution in particular to tackle security aspects (desirable).

For more information about the positions and how to apply, please visit http://goo.gl/SGGY28  --- the application deadline is Feb 28, 2015.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the PI, Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro. For further information on the Systems Security Research Lab and related projects, see http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk

Royal Holloway University of London is one of the eleven Higher Education (HE) institutions in the UK awarded as Centre of Academic Excellence in Cyber Security Research and one of only two HE institutions awarded with a Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.

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Dr. Johannes Kinder
Lecturer in Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/kinder/