[TYPES/announce] PhD position on Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services at at Chalmers

[Andrei Sabelfeld]

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PhD position on Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Application deadline: May 31, 2017

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*Job description*

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for a PhD position in Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services.

The PhD student will join a world-leading team of researchers on software security and privacy. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities in modern computing systems. By focusing on securing the software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust protection against large classes of attacks.

The advertised position is on Security and Privacy of Location-Based Services. The position is a part of Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Sweden's largest individual engineering research program.

Location-based services/systems (LBS) see tremendous growth, with application from smartphones to autonomous vehicles and aircraft. This project is on rigorous techniques for security and privacy in LBS, including:

-security and privacy foundations of LBS: formal modeling and reasoning for LBS policies;

-application-, service-, and system-level mechanisms: enforcing security and privacy policies for LBS by such software-level techniques as informationflow control (IFC), program analysis, and monitoring, and their integration with such hardware-level mechanisms as Isolated Execution Environments (IEE) and infrastructure for secure localization;

-cryptographic techniques for LBS: designing and scaling decentralized approaches, such as those enabled by secure multi-party computation.

This position will be supervised by Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~andrei/

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*Details about employment*

PhD student position is limited to five years and normally include 20 per cent departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Salary for the position is as specified in Chalmers' general agreement for PhD student positions. Currently the starting salary is around 30,000SEK a month before tax.  The position is intended to start in fall 2017.

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*Suitable background*

Applicants should have a Master's Degree or corresponding degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline.  As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, both oral and written, are needed.

You may apply even if you have not completed your degree, but expect to do so before the position starts.  Knowledge of Swedish is not a prerequisite for applying since English is our working language for research, and we publish internationally.  Both Swedish and English are used in undergraduate courses.  Half of our researchers and PhD students at the department come from more than 30 different countries.

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*How to apply*

The application should be submitted electronically via the following link:

http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=5052

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*The department*

The department has about 260 employees from more than 30 countries. The research spans the whole spectrum, from theoretical foundations to applied systems development. There is extensive national and international collaboration with academia and industry all around the world. For more information, see http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/cse/Pages/default.aspx

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