International Association
for Cryptologic Research

We are looking for a PhD student to join our group on reinforcement learning and decision making under uncertainty more generally, at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. We expect the candidate to perform research in one the following domains. Theory of differntial privacy. Algorithms for differentially private machine learning. Algorithms for fairness in machine learning. Interactions between machine learning and game theory. Inference of human models of fairness or privacy. Mechanism design and incentives.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Christos Dimitrakakis

More information: https://sites.google.com/site/christosdimitrakakis/positions

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA 1. An extended Degree or higher qualification (eg Masters), or equivalent experience*, in Computing or a relevant discipline area from a recognised tertiary institution. Progression towards completion of a Doctoral qualification would be highly regarded. 2. Professional experience, or demonstrated deep knowledge, in a relevant discipline such as Cyber Security and/or Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. 3. Demonstrated research experience and expertise in privacy-preserving machine learning including privacy-preserving federated learning are the most desirable. Privacy preservation such as Secure Multi-party. 4. Computation or Differential Privacy, secure data sharing such a Secret Sharing, (distributed) machine learning, AI modelling for the healthcare domain. High Level computational and programming skills (e.g., Java, Python, or C/C++) 5. Experience in mobile app development, cloud-based solution design and deployment. deploying and IT solution in the healthcare domain, project management and coordination working with multidisciplinary researchers. Research Fellow Level A Position Description l Date – April 2021 RESEARCH FELLOW 6. Proven track record of publications in peer reviews journals and/or authorship of scientific papers, report and grant applications. 7. A record of science innovation and creativity, including the ability and willingness to incorporate novel ideas and approaches into scientific investigations as well as real-world deployment. 8. Knowledge and ability to engage in research that provides the opportunity to collaborate with others, advances knowledge, and engages with industry. 9. Willingness to engage in capacity building learning and teaching (academic) development activities. 10. High level oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, relating well to people at all levels using diplomacy, tact and sound judgement, with an ability to build constructive and effective relationships. 11. Alignment with the core University values of Respect, Integrity, and Excellence.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: To find out more about this opportunity, please contact Dr Zhaohui Tang on +61 7 4631 2464 or Zhaohui.Tang@usq.edu.au

More information: https://bit.ly/3GPW7qT

Open 3 years long post-doc position at the Math Department of the University Tor Vergata on isogeny based cryptography. Here is the official call (download bando.pdf and see position reference number 1817). Unfortunately the call is in Italian, but the research project is in English. https://web.uniroma2.it/it/contenuto/procedure_pubbliche_selettive_per_il_reclutamento_di_n__56_ricercatori_con_contratto_a_tempo_determinato_ai_sensi_dellra The Department has a big research group in Algebra and Geometry. Among the people interested in elliptic curves, there are myself and Rene' Schoof. The salary is between 1300 and 1400 euro per month after taxes, but if you come from abroad you pay less taxes and get more money. The teaching duties are about 30 hours per year. The successful candidate will have to work for six months in the company Thales Alenia Spazio, checking if isogeny based protocols are suitable for space communications (the company might asks to look also into other protocols). The position comes with some money for traveling and inviting people. In particular, there might be the possibility of spending six months at IBM working with Luca De Feo. The deadline is unfortunately very soon. The call closes the 18th of November, the successful candidate should start working here ideally as early as January or February.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Giulio Codogni

More information: https://web.uniroma2.it/it/contenuto/procedure_pubbliche_selettive_per_il_reclutamento_di_n__56_ricercatori_con_contratto_a_tempo_determinato_ai_sensi_dellra

Doctoral student in Electrical Engineering with focus on security for production systems and principles for protected data analytics on cloud resources. The research project will be in the field of protected cloud based data analytics in online production systems. The research is system oriented and we will work with combinations between well established computer/communication security solutions and novel data protection. Especially, the research is directed towards principles utilizing state replication for protected sharing of data among multiple stakeholders as well as using machine learning for advanced access protection profile generation.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Prof. Christian Gehrmann

More information: https://lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:443090/

Your Role...

The successful candidate will join the CryptoLux research team led by Prof. Alex Biryukov. He or she will contribute to a research project on future directions in cryptography and IT security and is expected to perform the following tasks:

• Shaping research directions and producing results in one or more of the following topics: o Applied Cryptography (symmetric, lightweight, AE, White-box etc.); o Financial cryptography, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies; o Privacy enhancing technologies (Tor, zero-knowledge, eID, etc.); • Disseminating results through scientific publications; • Providing guidance to Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.

Your Profile...

• A Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; • Competitive research record in applied cryptography or information security (at least one paper in top 10 IT security conferences); • Strong mathematical and algorithmic CS background; • Good skills in C /or C++ or scripting languages; • Commitment, team working and a critical mind; • Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English are mandatory.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: alex.biryukov@uni.lu

More information: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2v77v

Job Description. You and your team will be responsible for:

• implementing state-of-the-art algorithms for homomorphic encryption
• continually improving their performance and reliability through timing optimisation and verification
• documenting and benchmarking the implemented cryptographic operations

You will be working with us on the cutting edge of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), designing and implementing hardware that will enable privacy by default. FHE is an exciting field in cryptography with many opportunities for filing patents, publishing papers, and presenting your work at conferences.

Preferred Experience. You should have:

• a PhD in cryptography, or a Master’s degree in Engineering with more than four (4) years of industry experience
• be well versed in VHDL and/or Verilog
• a strong knowledge of FPGA tool flows, familiarity with cutting-edge FPGA devices, and be comfortable with debugging and reaching timing closure
• a strong interest in cryptography and a passion for privacy
• good analytical skills
• good written and oral communication skills
• experience implementing lattice-based cryptography on FPGA/ASIC is a plus

Full remote is possible, with a willingness to come to Paris quarterly.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Thomas De Cnudde (thomas.decnudde(at)zama.ai)

More information: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/zama/jobs

Multiple fully funded positions on the Ding Lab in Cryptography and its applications at the Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA).

Ding Lab

The Ding Lab in Public Key Cryptography will be led by Prof. Jintai Ding. It is an international open laboratory with English as the working language. Anyone who works in related areas including (but not restricted to) computational algebra, computational algebraic geometry, number theory, mathematical optimization, quantum algorithms, post-quantum cryptography, multi-party computation, zero-knowledge proof, fully homomorphic encryption, privacy preserving algorithms, block chain, high performance computing, and algorithm implementations are welcome to apply.

Positions

• Visiting Scholar : including short term(less than 3 months) and long term(6 months to 1 year) for persons who has been granted with PhD degree
• Post-Doc
• Senior Researcher
• Research Associate (master)

All positions require you having a master or PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Cryptography, or equivalent practical experience.

Salary

BIMSA offers internationally competitive salary packages and salary will be determined by applicant's qualification. Recent PhDs are especially encouraged to apply. A typical appointment for postdoc of BIMSA is for two-years, renewable for the third year with annual salary ranges from 300,000 RMB to 500,000 RMB depending on experience and qualifications.

BIMSA

The BIMSA is a Mathematics research institution co-sponsored by Beijing Municipal Government and Tsinghua University, and the director of BIMSA is the renowned mathematician, Prof. Shing-Tung Yau. The BIMSA is located in the Huairou District of Beijing, and is part of Beijing’s strategic plans to build world-class new-style research & development institutions and national innovation center for science and technology. The BIMSA aims to develop fundamental scientific research and build a bridge between mathematics and industry applications.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Jintai Ding(DingLab@bimsa.cn)

The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security provides a unique work environment that offers the advantages of a university department and a research laboratory alike. As the latest member of the Helmholtz Association, the largest research organization in Germany, CISPA has embarked on a mission: to rethink the digitalized world of the future from the ground up and make it safer through innovative, cutting-edge research. The center will grow to more than 800 employees in the medium term with not less than 60 Faculty and research group leaders.

CISPA maintains an open, international and diverse work environment. Every Ph.D. student is a member of a research group led by his or her supervisor. Admitted students are, as a rule, paid employees of CISPA with a full-time contract. The working language is English.

Job Description. The group of Kamil Kluczniak is looking for Ph.D. students broadly interested in theoretical and/or practical aspects of Cryptography. Although the group is currently focused on homomorphic encryption and public-key cryptography, candidates will be encouraged to find and pursue their own research interests.

How to apply: All applications have to be done through the Odoo system:

https://jobs.cispa.saarland/de_DE/jobs/detail/phd-students-1

Candidates are encouraged to send ``Hello CISPA!!!'' to the email address that is under the variable m from the following Python code:

>>> c = m**e % N

>>> print(str(c) + ", " + str(e) + ", " + str(N))

>>> 3016, 19, 10403

>>> m = str(c**d % N) + "@cispa.de"

Closing date for applications:

Contact:

https://jobs.cispa.saarland/de_DE/jobs/detail/phd-students-1

If you have any questions regarding your application please contact our Onboarding Team via otm@cispa.de.

Your Role...

In 2018, the NIST announced an initiative to standardize lightweight authenticated encryption schemes and hash functions in an open process with public evaluation. The mission of the APLICA project is to contribute to the evaluation of the third-round candidates and the eventually standardized algorithms by analyzing their theoretical and practical security properties. More concretely, APLICA will contribute to the development of new cryptanalytic techniques that can be applied to lightweight authenticated encryption algorithms and hash functions, and to the design and implementation of new countermeasures against side-channel attacks, in particular differential power analysis, that are suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices.

Your Profile...

Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree (or obtain a Ph.D. degree before September 2020) in symmetric cryptography or a closely related field. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong publication record that includes at least one paper at an IACR-sponsored conference/workshop or one of the top-4 security conferences. Experience in software development for embedded systems and/or side-channel attacks is a plus. Candidates with an interest to conduct research in one of the following areas are particularly encouraged to apply:

Cryptanalysis of authenticated encryption algorithms or hash functions

Leakage resilience or leakage reduction by design (e.g. modes of operation)

Side-channel analysis and countermeasures

Closing date for applications:

Contact: leonard.pireaux@uni.lu

More information: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2vbse

The novel interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND doctoral training programme

LogiCS@TUWien - Logics for Computer Science http://www.vcla.at/msca

co-funded by the European Commission, will offer 20 full-time PhD positions.The program is hosted by TU Wien, one of the most successful technical universities in Europe and the largest one in Austria. The Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien is a leading research and teaching institution which consistently ranks among the top 100 computer science faculties in the global Times Higher Education ranking. In the heart of Europe, Vienna has a distinguished history in mathematics, computer science, and logic research and offers one of the highest living standards in the world.

The doctoral positions are open to international high-potential early-stage researchers working on Logical Methods in Computer Science and their applications, including:

* Artificial Intelligence * Databases * Verification * Algorithms * Security * Cyber-Physical Systems

The programme provides a 4-year long doctoral training for international PhD candidates within an English-language curriculum. LogiCS@TUWien will run for 60 months and foresees the recruitment of 20 PhD candidates. The PhD candidates will be supervised by:

* Ezio Bartocci * Pavol Cerny * Agata Ciabattoni * Thomas Eiter * Robert Ganian * Georg Gottlob * Laura Kovács * Matteo Maffei * Magdalena Ortiz * Stefan Szeider * Georg Weissenbacher * Stefan Woltran * Florian Zuleger

Two calls will accomplish the recruitment of the 20 positions. The first call is now open, with an application deadline of December 30, 2021.

For details on how to apply, see http://www.vcla.at/msca/apply or watch the video at https://youtu.be/Aq0JGJ9eqzQ.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: If you have any questions about the application procedure, please contact us under: msca@vcla.at

More information: http://www.vcla.at/msca/apply

You will be working with the newly established Cryptography Algorithm Development Group to develop and validate algorithm implementations across IBM platforms.

Job Duties:

• Develop and support the Testing and Emulation of IBM Cryptographic Library in C (CLiC) code on various IBM platforms
• Safely implement cryptographic algorithms and optimize them for the various IBM systems
• Develop optimized code once and reuse in various software and firmware components
• Rapidly address customer demands for new or faster cryptographic capabilities
• Drive innovation in cryptographic development
• Consult hardware development teams on where to provide hardware acceleration

As a core member of the Cryptography Algorithm Development Group, you will

• Successfully deliver technical solutions
• Work and collaborate as part of one team with worldwide collaborators
• Understand the requirements and goals of the customer
• Participate in customer reviews and internal technical solution reviews
• Ensure feedback to all teams
  • Customer(s)
  • Chief Architect
  • Crypto Firmware Team(s)
  • Offering Management

Please see the online job posting for full qualifications and to apply online.

Apply online: https://careers.ibm.com/job/14168444/applied-cryptographer-poughkeepsie-ny/?codes=IBM_CareerWebSite

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Baaba Kyerewaa Forster-Forson

More information: https://careers.ibm.com/job/14168444/applied-cryptographer-poughkeepsie-ny/?codes=IBM_CareerWebSite

The Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Associate or Full Professors with tenure will be considered in special cases that enhance the research and teaching profile of the department. We welcome candidates in the research areas of algebraic combinatorics, continuous optimization, cryptography, discrete optimization, and graph theory. Emphasis will be given to candidates in the areas of continuous optimization, discrete optimization, and cryptography.

A Ph.D. degree and evidence of excellence in research and teaching are required. Successful applicants are expected to maintain an active program of research, to attract and supervise graduate students, and to participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching.

The salary range for the position is $105,000 to $155,000. Negotiations beyond this salary range will be considered for exceptionally qualified candidates. The effective date of appointment is July, 1 2022.

Interested individuals should apply using the MathJobs site (https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/18454). Applications should include a curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and up to three reprints/preprints. In addition, at least three reference letters should be submitted.

If you have any questions regarding the position, the application process, assessment process, or eligibility, please contact combopt@uwaterloo.ca or Jochen Koenemann, Chair, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. The closing date for receipt of applications is December 1, 2021.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Jochen Koenemann, Chair, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization (jochen@uwaterloo.ca)

More information: https://uwaterloo.ca/combinatorics-and-optimization/career-opportunities

The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) @CS Department @Technical University of Darmstadt offers a fully funded position as Doctoral Researcher (Research Assistant/PhD Student) in Private Machine Learning for Mobile Applications to be filled as soon as possible for 3 years with the possibility of extension.
Job description: You'll work in the research training group/doctoral college Privacy&Trust for Mobile Users funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In our subproject, we build cryptography-based private machine learning services for mobile applications and investigate their legal applicability (data protection) and economic feasibility in interdisciplinary collaborations. You conduct research, implement prototypes, and publish&present the results at top venues. You'll participate in teaching and supervise thesis students & student assistants.
We offer: We demonstrate that privacy is efficiently protectable in real-world applications via cryptographic protocols. Our open and international working environment facilitates excellent research in a sociable team. TU Darmstadt is a top research university for IT security, cryptography and CS in Europe. Darmstadt is a very international, livable and well-connected city in the Rhine-Main area around Frankfurt. Knowledge of German is beneficial, but not required, and TU Darmstadt offers corresponding support.
Your profile:

• Completed Master's degree (or equivalent) at a top university with excellent grades in IT security, computer science, or a similar area.
• Extensive knowledge in applied cryptography/IT security and very good software development skills. Knowledge in cryptographic protocols (ideally MPC) is a plus.
• Experience with/motivation for working with other disciplines, e.g., law or economics.
• Self-motivated, reliable, creative, can work independently, and want to do excellent research.
• Our working language is English: able to discuss/write/present scientific results in English. German is beneficial but not required.

Application deadline: Nov 17, 2021 (Extended). Later applications are considered.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Thomas Schneider (application@encrypto.cs.tu-darmstadt.de)

More information: https://encrypto.de/2021-RTG-EN

As a Privacy and Cryptography Engineer at Apheris, your primary focus will be driving development of privacy and cryptographic modules in our product core and push it to customers together with a team of great software engineers and data scientists. You will be working on challenging deep tech projects closely together with customers from various industries with a focus on Healthcare, Pharma and Sustainability. With your engineering expertise, you will be responsible for meeting project and product goals and act accordingly to upcoming bottlenecks. You will design and build new features and enhance our product core with innovative technologies, participate in code reviews, and promote engineering best practices in our tech team. We empower you to be a major contributor to the success of projects, customer’s satisfaction, and the advancement of our product core.

What you will do

• Implement privacy and cryptographic modules into our product in a secure, robust and scalable way
• Be a hands-on engineering contributor and promote best practices in our tech team
• Contribute to the writing of scientific whitepapers, Jupyter Notebook tutorials and blog posts about privacy and cryptographic algorithms and their usage in our product
• Contribute to team deliverables following an agile methodology and participate in retrospective sessions to continuously improve the teams’ way of working

You should apply if

• Master or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or Cryptography, or equivalent practical experience
• 3 or more years of relevant work experience
• Expert coding skills in Python, including common data science and ML libraries. Further languages are a plus (e.g.,R, C, C++, Go, Rust)
• Solid understanding of privacy technologies and machine learning
• ...

Closing date for applications:

Contact: See link to full text of the job description

More information: https://apheris.jobs.personio.de/job/492987?_pc=222318

Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers. Our researchers and engineers pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.

The Cryptography and Privacy Research Group is hiring interns for the summer of 2022. We are seeking strong candidates to work with our renowned researchers on various topics. We are particularly interested in privacy-preserving ML, privacy and transparency techniques for digital identity systems and public key infrastructures, account/identity/password recovery, and web privacy/security, including fraud detection and prevention. We encourage all PhD students with relevant technical background in any of these topics to apply as soon as possible, as we will start interviewing immediately.

For summer internships, we typically work closely with Microsoft product groups (Teams, Edge, to name a few) to bring research ideas to real life. The internships often involve prototyping the research results, so a strong candidate is expected to have some proficiency in programming and interest in working alongside our engineers.

More information and application at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1195145/Research-Intern-Privacy-and-Cryptography

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Kim Laine (kim.laine@microsoft.com)

We have a fully funded position to pursue a PhD (or join us as a postdoc) as part of our French-German project Propolis on Smart City Privacy, in a consortium with Eurecom, SAP, and The Urban Institute: https://propolis-project.eu/ . We will primarily work on publishing location trajectories with DP guarantees and differentially private ML on location data (for instance for traffic management, public security, and risk management in smart cities).

We can hire MSc graduates from CS, math and related fields who would like to pursue a PhD, or PostDocs to prepare them for academic/industry careers -- or to keep them with us for a while (including co-supervision of MSc/PhD students, if applicable). We are and will remain a small, international, diverse team with close interaction. Good command of the English language is necessary (no German needed), and we recruit based on qualification and commitment. We focus on positive working environments and the quality of results.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Thorsten Strufe and Javier Parra-Arnau

More information: https://ps.tm.kit.edu/english/200.php

Four fully funded positions to do a PhD or Post-Doc (co-supervision of PhD students, in case of interest) on 6G security and privacy (location privacy, availability, security architectures, practical quantum key generation) at KIT/KASTEL and Excellence Cluster CeTI.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Thorsten Strufe

More information: https://ps.tm.kit.edu/english/200.php

In a fast changing world, it takes pioneering spirit to create trustworthy technology. We enable secure connectivity and payment solutions for billions of people around the globe. At G+D Mobile Security, you will play a key role in realizing the digital transformation.

G+D Mobile Security is looking for a Cryptography Engineer (m/f/d) for its Cryptology department at its Munich Headquarters as soon as possible

Job description:

• Secure implementation of cryptographic algorithms and security relevant OS components for smart cards in assembler
• Optimization regarding run time and memory consumption
• Design and implementation of countermeasures to defend against hardware related attacks against smart cards
• Analysis of the results of side-channel attacks and derivation of effective countermeasures

Your Profile:

• Background in mathematics, computer science or electronic engineering
• Ideally PhD in cryptography or 3+ years experience in cryptography or related area
• Programming skills in assembler for 8/16/32 bit embedded microcontrollers
• Ideally experience in embedded security and side-channel-attacks

Your benefits:

• High level of responsibility and exciting projects
• Working in an international security technology company
• Very flexible working hours and home office possibilities
• Wide range of training and further education opportunities
• Attractive family benefits such as a summer holiday camp for children
• Other benefits such as an own sports club and a canteen subsidized by the employer

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

https://careers.gi-de.com/job/Munich-Kryptologen-%28mfd%29-81677/723297801/

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Dr. Harald Vater (Harald.Vater (at) gi-de.com)

The candidate will investigate the utilisation of emerging variants of blockchains, such as redactable directed acyclic graph (DAG) based blockchain, as well as proof-of-location techniques for securing IoT and wireless devices. The candidate will work under a supervisory team with high expertise in IoT, wireless networks and protocols from, blockchain and information security, including Dr Djamel Djenouri and Dr Essam Ghadafi. For an informal discussion about the studentship, please email Dr Djamel Djenouri (Djamel.Djenouri@uwe.ac.uk) or Dr Essam Ghadafi (Essam.Ghadafi@uwe.ac.uk).

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Essam Ghadafi (Essam.Ghadafi@uwe.ac.uk)

More information: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-study/how-to-apply/studentship-opportunities/iot-over-wireless-networks

The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security provides a unique work environment that offers the advantages of a university department and a research laboratory alike. As the latest member of the Helmholtz Association, the largest research organization in Germany, CISPA has embarked on a mission: to rethink the digitalized world of the future from the ground up and make it safer through innovative cutting-edge research. In the medium term, the center will grow to more than 800 employees with 60 Faculty and research group leaders. Faculty receive extremely competitive institutional funding, enjoy academic freedom, and build and lead their team of young researchers, and are granted the opportunity to teach graduate and undergraduate courses.

CISPA is located in Saarbrücken, in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. We maintain an international and diverse work environment and seek applications from outstanding researchers worldwide. The working language is English. A command of German is not required for a successful career at CISPA.

CISPA is looking for candidates that hold a doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and have an outstanding research track record in all areas related to IT-Security, Privacy and Cryptography, especially in, but not limited to the fields of

software security,

security of critical infrastructure,

embedded systems,

network and distributed system (incl. blockchains) security,

hardware security,

privacy-enhancing technologies,

usable security and privacy,

applied cryptography,

quantum cryptography,

cryptanalysis.

All applicants are expected to build up a research team that pursues an internationally visible research agenda.

Tenure-track positions are intended for candidates with excellent research credentials and the potential to pursue a program of innovative research. The positions are comparable to tenure-track positions at a leading university, and come with two full time research staff positions and generous support for other expenses.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: scientific-recruiting@cispa.saarland

More information: https://jobs.cispa.saarland/jobs/detail/tenure-track-faculty-positions-in-all-areas-related-to-it-security-privacy-and-cryptography-f-m-d-129