The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers
University of Technology invites applications for 2 PhD positions in
Software/Web Security.
The PhD students will join a world-leading team of researchers on
software security. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities
in modern computing systems such as the web. By focusing on securing the
software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust
protection against large classes of attacks. The focus of the advertised
positions is on the following directions of work:
- To design rich security policies for confidentiality, integrity and
availability, as demanded by practical applications (such as web and
mobile applications).
- To develop practical enforcement mechanisms for these policies in
expressive programming languages (such as web and mobile languages).
These enforcement mechanisms may combine static (for example, static
program analysis-based) and dynamic (for example, run-time execution
monitoring-based) techniques.
- To support the above with case studies in web-application security.
In pursuing these goals, there are possibilities for collaboration with
our high-profile academic and industrial partners. We run a number of
ambitious projects with top international partners in academia and
industry, including the European project WebSand on web application
security: https://www.websand.eu/
These positions will be supervised by Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~andrei/ - recipient of a number of recent
awards, including SSF Advancement of Research Leaders award (2008),
Chalmers Research Supervisor of the Year (2010), and ERC
Starter/Consolidator (2012). Promotional video about the team's research
on securing web applications: http://vimeo.com/82206652
Application deadline: March 31, 2014
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