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Project description
Third-cycle subject: Computer Science
The TCS group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, https://www.kth.se/tcs, has vacancies for one PhD student in System Security and Formal Methods.
We are looking for a highly motivated student interested in building secure system components, constructing models at system and component (HW and SW) level, as well as building and using various types of automated and semi-automated tools for verification and analysis.
Our project aims to develop techniques for analysing non-functional properties of complex systems and to design system software and kernels that support end-to-end predictable computing for several untrusted tenants. These goals will require to work in four dimensions:
1) extend existing execution platforms with support for strong timing isolation, enabling predictable performance of software components and preventing side-channels.
2) model processors and design binary analysis tools with support for concurrency.
3) design, implement, and verify new mechanisms to securely share peripherals among untrusted tenants.
4) implement a trustworthy 5G subsystem that provides network slicing, where two distrusting tenants share two hosts and compete for the same network resources. This system will be used demonstrate the effectiveness of the analyses techniques and software designs
This position is funded by WASP-AS, https://wasp-sweden.org, which is a major national initiative for strategically motivated basic research, education and faculty recruitment in autonomous systems and software development. Within WASP-AS, our group is part of the Security for Autonomous Systems project cluster, which investigates security and privacy research challenges that arise from advances in autonomous systems.
What we offer
Eligibility
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:
Selection
In order to succeed as an doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. In the selection of the applicants, the following will be assessed:
Successful applicants will have a good background in topics like formal methods, program verification, computer architecture, computer security, operating systems, interactive theorem proving.
After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and personal suitability.
Target degree: Doctoral Degree
Information regarding admission and employment
Only those who are or have been admitted to third-cycle studies may be employed as a doctoral student. The term of the initial contract may not exceed one year and may thereafter be extended. Doctoral students may engage in teaching, research, and administration corresponding to a maximum of 20 % of a full-time position.
Union representatives
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Doctoral section (Students’ union on KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
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Application
Apply for the position and admission through KTH's recruitment system. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the advertisement.
Applications must be received at the last closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/entral European Summer Time).
Applications must include the following elements:
Other information
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | Enligt ö.k |
Salary | Monthly salary according to KTH's doctoral student salary agreement |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Stockholm |
County | Stockholms län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | J-2019-1534 |
Contact |
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Published | 13.Jun.2019 |
Last application date | 01.Aug.2019 11:59 PM CEST |