Postdoc in secure autonomous cyber-physical systems

Job description

The Division of Network and Systems Engineering is seeking a highly motivated postdoc with a very strong background and interest in learning and optimization for secure and robust autonomous cyber-physical systems. The successful candidate will join a project developing model-based and data-driven techniques for detecting, mitigating, and reasoning about adversarial behavior in interconnected autonomous systems. Two research directions are possible depending on the candidate’s expertise:

Cyber-Physical Systems Security: Develop new methods for securing sensing, control, and decision-making pipelines in CPS. This includes modeling cyber-physical interactions under uncertainty, designing detection algorithms for false data injections attacks, and building resilient control or monitoring mechanisms that can withstand and recover from adversarial attacks

Secure and Robust Machine Learning: Investigate adversarial robustness, adaptation to distribution shift, secure coordination, and robust learning in single and multi-agent environments. Topics include robust reinforcement learning, robust perception, secure decision policies, and collective defense strategies.

The Division of Network and Systems Engineering conducts fundamental research in networked systems, wireless communications and cyber security. Industrial projects involve partners such as Ericsson, Atlas Copco and Telenor. Part of the research is conducted within the framework of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program and in Digital Futures. We have an extensive academic network and collaborate with researchers at MIT, UIUC, EPFL, among others.

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Significant, documented research expertise in cyber-physical systems and/or machine learning.
• Strongly motivated, able to work independently, and with very good collaborative abilities.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Teaching abilities and documented supervision of student work is commendable.
• Research expertise
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality is commendable.
• Collaborative abilities
• Independence

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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To apply for the position

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The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Max two pages long.
• Three scientific publications relevant to the position.
• Contact information for at least three reference persons.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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