International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The Department of Computer Science at the University of York has several PhD studentships available for exceptional Home (UK & Ireland) and Overseas students through the Doctoral Centre for Safe, Ethical and Secure Computing (SEtS).

The Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group at the Department calls for students who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the following topics:

• Security of New and Emerging Networks: including security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks, security and safety in robotics and autonomous systems, security and safety of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and security of underwater networks and communications,
• Usable Security and Privacy: Web measurement to analyse and combat web tracking, developing privacy-enhancing technologies. usable security and privacy, and human factors in cyber security and privacy,
• Applied Cryptography: Design and analysis of provably-secure cryptographic schemes and protocols, especially those that preserve or enhance privacy, and including but not limited to automated formal analysis and mechanisation of proofs of security protocols,
• Malware Analysis and Detection: including different types of malware, such as ransomware and spyware, malware targeting mobile platforms (e.g. Android) or industrial control systems and critical infrastructure,
• Machine Learning for IoT Security: Machine learning techniques for IoT behavioural fingerprinting and attack detection for network security, and
• Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: Edge based machine learning systems such as federated learning, and how to quantify, control, and manage privacy in such systems.

The available projects are supervised by a combination of faculty members including Dr. Roberto Metere, Dr. Siamak F. Shahandashti, Dr. Vasileios Vasilakis, Dr. Yuchen Zhao, and Dr. Poonam Yadav.

For more information please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VtrNtFG1zy54o0BzymHj56gY--YEw2ch3EG18gnb3Lc

Closing date for applications:

Contact: sets-csp-group@york.ac.uk

More information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VtrNtFG1zy54o0BzymHj56gY--YEw2ch3EG18gnb3Lc