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10 May 2017
Quoc-Sang Phan, Lucas Bang, Corina S. P\u{a}s\u{a}reanu, Pasquale Malacaria, Tevfik Bultan
Cédric Van Rompay, Refik Molva, Melek Önen
09 May 2017
Mines Saint-Etienne
A focus will be put on fault injection techniques which consists in injecting faults into the computations of the targeted circuit for the purpose of either recovering a secret key or bypassing security checks (algorithm modification).
Closing date for applications: 30 June 2017
Contact: For further questions regarding the position or details on the research project, please contact:
- Dr. Jean-Max DUTERTRE from Mines Saint-Etienne:
- or Pr. Jean-Luc DANGER from Télécom ParisTech.
More information: http://www.emse.fr/~dutertre/doc_recherche/annonce_these_EDSIS_2017_SAS.pdf
David McCann, Elisabeth Oswald
Tel Aviv, Israel, 29 April - 3 May 2018
You have the opportunity to participate in this important initiative as it will help ensure that the complexities of your profession are described accurately in the O*NET Database for the American public for career exploration and job analysis.
Mathematicians
Description: Conduct research in fundamental mathematics or in application of mathematical techniques to science, management, and other fields. Solve problems in various fields using mathematical methods.
You are considered an Occupation Expert if you meet the following criteria:
- At least 5 years of experience with the occupation. Includes those who are now supervising, teaching, or training IF you have at least one year of practice during your career.
- Currently active in the occupation (practicing, supervising, teaching and/or training) and based in the U.S.
- Name/ # years of experience
- Address with city and state
- Daytime phone number
- Email address
- Do you have at least one year of practice in the occupation and are you still active?
We encourage you to consider helping to keep information about your profession accurate and current for the benefit of our colleagues and the nation. Thank you very much for your support.
(Dr. Laurie Cluff of RTI, International is leading this program of data collection from occupation experts. If you have questions or concerns, she may be reached by phone, at (919) 541-6514, or by e-mail, at lcluff@rti.org. Thank you for your time and consideration.)
Sydney, Australia, 10 August - 11 August 2017
Submission deadline: 26 May 2017
Notification: 19 June 2017
Commissariat à l\'Energie Atomique, LIST, Université Paris-Saclay
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Renaud Sirdey
More information: http://www-instn.cea.fr/
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Candidates for research fellow/associate should have completed (or close to completing) a PhD in computer science, mathematics, or a related discipline. Research assistant are expected to have an honours degree or an equivalent qualification. Applicants should have solid experience in any of the following areas:
1. public key cryptography and provable security.
2. system and network security
3. software engineering
Successful candidates are expected to contribute to one of the following topics:
- applications of blockchain technology
- lattice-based cryptography
- mobile security
- network security
The post has a flexible starting date. The initial appointment will be for 12 months, with a strong possibility for further appointment.
Applicants for PhD studentship should possess:
- a bachelor degree in computer science with good programming skills; or
- a bachelor degree in mathematics with strong interest in cryptography.
Review of applications will start immediately until the positions are filled.
Closing date for applications: 1 November 2017
Contact: Contact: Daniel Xiapu Luo (http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csxluo) (csxluo at comp dot polyu dot edu dot hk)
Man Ho Allen Au (http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csallen/) (csallen at comp dot polyu dot edu dot hk)
Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden
The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/
Full-time temporary employment. PhD student positions are limited to five years. Starting salary is 27,835 SEK a month before tax. The position is intended to start in Sept 2017.
Submit your applications here: http://goo.gl/PfyRzY
Attention! You need to select project C4 in your application.
Closing date for applications: 31 May 2017
Contact: Katerina Mitrokotsa, Associate Professor, Chalmers Univ. of Technology
More information: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/PhD-Cryptography-Cloud.html
Onboard Security, Wilmington, MA, USA
OnBoard Security, formerly the Embedded Security division of Security Innovation, is the leader in automotive cybersecurity and we are looking for a Researcher to work on exciting projects.
Position Overview
OnBoard Security delivers world-class research and consulting services in secure communications, network security architecture, PKI, and security for connected vehicles. You will support research projects on a variety of security and privacy topics relating to connected and automated vehicles. You will also help us out in our Connected Vehicle Security consulting business.
Required Qualifications
- PhD degree in Computer Science (specialization in network security is a plus) or 5 years in industry, including work in a research-aligned environment
- Publications in top-tier conferences (please attach your best publication to your application)
- Experience with simulation tools (e.g. VEINS)
- Good communication skills
About us
We can’t name all the customers we’ve worked with, but recent specific projects have included being technical editor of IEEE Std 1609.2, the standard for all communications security for connected vehicle; and serving as security lead for the New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot, shaping all aspects of application, communication and configuration security for an upcoming 8,000 vehicle deployment on the streets of New York. Our security middleware was selected by GM for inclusion in the MY 2017 Cadillac CTS, the first car to have DSRC installed for sale to the general public. On the research side, we are working on topics ranging from cryptography (e.g. Garbled Circuits) to network and system security (e.g. misbehavior detection) and privacy (e.g. pseudonym system).
OnBoard Security is an equal opportunity employer.
Closing date for applications: 1 August 2017
Contact: Jonathan Petit, Senior Director of Research
jobs (at) onboardsecurity.com
More information: http://www.onboardsecurity.com
Eciotify GmbH, Berlin & Flensburg
WHO?
We are eciotify, a new venture supported by NBT AG. We envision a world whereby IoT devices are enabled to freely participate in an economy; buying, selling and trading their digital assets by our secure, low cost and inter-operable technologies.
As our Blockchain Expert you will be responsible for the developments of our Blockchain Technology.
WHAT?
Take an active role in decisions on designing new systems and architectures based on Blockchain technologies
MUST HAVES:
- Significant experience in blockchain technologies (e.g. Ethereum, Hyperledger)
- In-depth knowledge in smart contract programming, ideally proven by some previous projects
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN?
People matter for us!
Our employees are the foundation of everything we accomplish.
The only way to realize our full potential is by providing an inspiring work environment, by enabling our employees to grow and provide them with everything they need to become thought leaders in their field.
Be in the driver seat of your personal and professional development
We offer you responsible and versatile tasks in a highly motivated international team. You will find minimal hierarchies, quick decision-making, a great work environment atmosphere. If you are a self motivated thinker and doer, we will provide you with astonishing opportunities to grow on a personal and professional level! In collaboration with Professor Gajek, eciotify is providing a great R&D environment for the most curious minds! We also offer the possibility to make your PhD and are able to connect you with the international research community.
To sum it all up in one sentence:
Build cool stuff with us!
Closing date for applications: 15 June 2017
Contact: Dennis Wegener
Head of HR
buildcoolstuff (at) eciotify.io
More information: http://eciotify.io
International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
The International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS) is a graduate program jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Saarland University.
The IMPRS-CS offers a PhD program upon successful completion of which students receive a Doctoral Degree in Computer Science from Saarland University. The program is open to students who hold or are about to receive a research-oriented Masters degree in Computer Science (or an equivalent degree). Successful candidates will typically have ranked at or near the top of their classes, have already engaged in research and published their results, and be highly proficient in written and spoken English.
Admitted students receive a support contract that covers all living expenses and tuition fees. They enjoy a research-oriented education with close supervision by world-renowned scientists in a competitive, yet collaborative, environment rich in interaction with other students, post-docs, and scientists.
Applications are accepted all year round; the current round closes on July 15th, 2017.
Further information, including instructions on how to apply, can be found here: http://www.imprs-cs.de
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Closing date for applications: 15 July 2017
Contact: Jennifer Gerling, IMPRS-CS Coordinator
E-Mail: imprs (at) mpi-inf.mpg.de
Phone: +49 681 9325 1800
More information: http://www.imprs-cs.de
Dominique Unruh
In this paper, we show under which strengthened conditions the Fiat-Shamir proof system is still post-quantum secure. Namely, we show that if we require the sigma-protocol to have computational zero-knowledge and perfect special soundness, then Fiat-Shamir is a zero-knowledge simulation-sound proof system (but not a proof of knowledge!). Furthermore, we show that Fiat-Shamir leads to a post-quantum secure strongly unforgeable signature scheme when additionally assuming a "dual-mode hard instance generator" for generating key pairs.
Finally, we study the extractability (proof of knowledge) property of Fiat-Shamir. While we have no proof of the extractability itself, we show that if we can prove extractability, then other desired properties such as simulation-sound extractability (i.e., non-malleability), and strongly unforgeable signatures follow.
Edoardo Persichetti
Payman Mohassel, Yupeng Zhang
In this paper, we present new and efficient protocols for privacy preserving machine learning for linear regression, logistic regression and neural network training using the stochastic gradient descent method. Our protocols fall in the two-server model where data owners distribute their private data among two non-colluding servers who train various models on the joint data using secure two-party computation (2PC). We develop new techniques to support secure arithmetic operations on shared decimal numbers, and propose MPC-friendly alternatives to nonlinear functions such as sigmoid and softmax that are superior to prior work.
We implement our system in C++. Our experiments validate that our protocols are several orders of magnitude faster than the state of the art implementations for privacy preserving linear and logistic regressions, and scale to millions of data samples with thousands of features. We also implement the first privacy preserving system for training neural networks.