I am looking for a motivated PhD student with a solid mathematical background, some familiarity with the fields of machine learning, and security and privacy and, ideally, previous research experience. This is a full-time and fully funded position, and the call is open to UK/EU/International candidates.

The student will be working with me on one of these topics:

  • ML-Based Traffic Analysis: the development and evaluation of traffic analysis defenses from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

  • Security and Privacy of ML: the design of methods to audit privacy and security of ML models, and the development of privacy-aware ML techniques.

  • Privacy and Fairness: the privacy challenges that arise from identifying and mitigating algorithmic bias.

The Security, Privacy and Trust group, located in the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh, provides a vibrant research environment and hosts several research institutes that are relevant to the research that the PhD student will be conducting. More information for prospective postgraduates here.

Instructions about how to apply

Please, get in touch via email for informal inquiries: <first>.<last>@ed.ac.uk