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The doctoral work will be done as part of research project ”CHAINS: Consistent Hardening and Analysis of Software Supply Chains”. Project CHAINS has been granted to KTH by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research for 32M SEK.
We’re building a team for CHAINS or 4 PhD students, 2 postdocs, 2 engineers and interns. Now, we have the following openings for Doctoral Student in Software Engineering.
Software Diversification: This thesis aims at creating augmenting diversity in the software supply chain of applications. Modern applications depend on a large number of open source libraries, and are built with a large number of software tools (e.g. for continuous integration, compilation, etc.). They form of the software supply chain of the application. Many applications depend on the same supply chain (same log library, or same build tool), which is a severe risk for reliability at a systemic level. In this thesis we will develop novel technology to augment diversity in the supply chain of applications, in order to reduce the risks of systemic failures or attacks.
Contact: Benoit Baudry <baudry@kth.se>.
Automatic Repair of Breaking Updates: This thesis aims at automatically proposing patches for breaking updates of software libraries. It is a best practice to keep all software dependencies to the latest version. However, some dependency versions are not compatible with the previous version. In this case, automated dependency management (eg with DependaBot or Renovate) still involves some heavy manual work in order to adapt the code to the new version of the library. The PhD student will design, implement and evaluate novel program analysis and program synthesis techniques to automatically repair breaking updates.
Threat modeling of software supply chains: This thesis aims at assessing and improving cybersecurity in the software supply chain of applications. Modern applications depend on a large number of open source libraries, and are built with a large number of software tools (e.g. for continuous integration, compilation, etc.). They form the software supply chain of the application. The complexity that these dependencies bring makes it difficult to understand and assess the overall vulnerability and risks related to the application. In this thesis we will develop novel methods and technology for automated threat modeling of software supply chains in order to support software engineers to reduce cybersecurity risk in application development.
Contact: Mathias Ekstedt <mekstedt@kth.se>
The PhD student is expected to publish in the top conferences and journals in the field of Software Engineering. The working language is English.
Third-cycle subject: Computer Science
Supervision: Professor Martin Monperrus and Professor Mattias Ekstedt.
To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:
In addition to the above, there is also a mandatory requirement for English equivalent to English B/6, read more here
In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:
The successful candidates should have a strong background in computer science. The PhD students is expected to publish in the top conferences and journals in the field of Software Engineering. The working language is English.
After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency.
Target degree: Doctoral degree
Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | According to agreement |
Salary | Monthly salary according to KTH's doctoral student salary agreement |
Number of positions | 2 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Stockholm |
County | Stockholms län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | J-2022-1409 |
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Published | 09.Jun.2022 |
Last application date | 30.Jun.2022 11:59 PM CEST |