Department of Information Security
Site: Egham
Salary: £ 36,438 per year – including the London allowance
Position type: Full time
Closing Date: 11.59 p.m. BST on Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Reference: 0921-363 Term, full time
Applications are invited for the post of postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Information Security.
Successful applicants will join SCC to support its research, training and commercialization activities. The position is fixed-term, full-time for a period of 36 months, starting on 1st November 2021 (or shortly thereafter).
CSC was established in 2002 and has an impressive track record of high quality research, education, industry engagement and commercialization activities. The center recently coordinated the acquisition of an extensive list of equipment including: Nvidia Jetson / Xavier AI development platforms, Snapdragon 365 mobile phone development boards, RISC-V development boards , autonomous vehicles / drones and a variety of positioning sensors (GNNSS / Velodyne LiDAR). This is combined with a comprehensive selection of analytical equipment (PicoScopes, RF probes and JTAG interfaces) which equip us for high impact research activities, making the laboratory a positive environment to pursue one’s research career. The members of the SCC team have a wide range of skills and expertise in information security in payment systems, mobile device security, connected objects, trusted execution environments (TEE), distributed ledgers, automotive and drone safety. We are currently contributing to a Horizon 2020 project on mobile forensic security. We are also broadening our research axes to the security of media broadcasting. In addition, we have also successfully commercialized our Explainable AI solutions (Seclea) and we have been shortlisted via our Tensorcrypt solution in the last 14 pre-seed commercialization solutions under the CyberASAP year 5 program.
CSC is seeking to appoint a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to strengthen our existing research areas, including the security of trusted execution environments (with an emphasis on side channel attacks), trusted autonomous systems (i.e. Expand our relatively newly created broadcast media security research thread, specifically, the incumbent will be involved in and lead our broadcast media security research and funding efforts.
In addition, the position requires close collaboration with our cell phone forensics research project and explores countermeasures to cell phone threats.
SCC uses its commercialization experience and the incumbent is expected to engage with our talented students, industry partners and SCC staff to strengthen SCC’s fundraising and commercialization activities. We would be happy to welcome candidates with relevant academic and industrial experience.
SCC uses its commercialization experience and it is expected that the incumbent will engage with our student talents, industry partners and SCC staff to strengthen SCC’s fundraising and commercialization activities. We would be happy to welcome candidates with relevant academic and industrial experience.
The position will involve working with the CSC team to apply multidisciplinary information security skills and expertise in the above areas. The incumbent will help produce independent and original research, submit publications to peer-reviewed journals, and collaborate and contribute to the supervision of UROP projects and UG, MSc and PhD students. More importantly, the role requires the development of funding requests.
Requirements: Applicants must have (or be in the process of obtaining) a PhD relevant to the research areas of the project (e.g. information security, IT) and be fluent in English. The ideal candidate should have a strong track record of research in an area relevant to: i) Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), ii) Media Streaming Security, iii) Trusted Autonomous Systems, and a proven ability to find innovative solutions. In addition, the ideal candidate should be self-motivated, possess software development skills and have prior experience in programming embedded systems and mobile devices. In addition to supporting the aforementioned research areas, the duties of the position will also include leading and contributing to the development of innovative research ideas and research grant proposals. Experience in developing research / grant proposals will therefore be highly appreciated.
In return, we offer a very competitive set of rewards and benefits including:
- Generous annual leave
- Training and development opportunities
- Pension plan with generous employer contribution
- Various programs including Cycle to Work, Season Pass Loans, and Eye Test Cost Assistance.
- Free parking
The position is based in Egham, Surrey, where the College is located on a beautiful leafy campus near Windsor Great Park and just minutes from London.
The successful candidate will work under the guidance of Professor Konstantinos Markantonakis (PI) and Dr Darren Hurley-Smith (CI) of the Smart card and IoT Security Center. For an informal discussion of the position, please contact Professor Konstantinos Markantonakis, at [email protected].
To view more details on this position and to apply, please visit https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk. For any questions about the application process, the Human Resources department can be contacted by email at: [email protected]
Please quote the reference: 0921-363
Closing Date: Midnight, 29e September 2021
Date of interview: To confirm
More details: Job description and person specification
