2 PhD Positions in Software/Web Security at Chalmers University of Technology

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334The 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

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1Application deadline: March 31, 2014 

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