​​Research Associate in Trustworthy Machine Learning for Malware Detection​

27 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

Research Field

Other

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
Established Researcher (R3)

Country

United Kingdom

Application Deadline

14 Apr 2024 - 00:00 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Other

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The Department of Informatics is looking to appoint a Research Associate in Trustworthy Machine Learning for Malware Detection, to work on the EPSRC project XAdv: Robust Explanations for Malware Detection, at the intersection of AI and Systems Security, led by Dr. Fabio Pierazzi (PI).

The Role

The candidate will be responsible for leading the co-design and development of novel solutions for robust explanations for malware detection, in the presence of concept drift and adversarial attacks.

They will also be expected to lead top security/ML publications (e.g., USENIX Security, S&P, TOPS, ICML, ICLR, AISec, DLSP) under the guidance of Dr. Fabio Pierazzi, and the advisory team as required. They will develop prototypes and code frameworks (e.g., in Python) for large-scale experimental evaluations of their research ideas, and co-lead also user studies and methodologies to verify accuracy of the explanation methods.

The candidate will become part of the Cybersecurity Group (CYS) in Informatics at King's (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cy s), and work more closely with the team led by Dr. Fabio Pierazzi (https://fabio.pierazzi.com/team/ ), currently consisting of 6 Ph.D. students. The wider team of collaborators of this project, including industrial partners such as NCC Group and Avast (now Gen Digital), and universities such as UIUC, TU Berlin, and University of Cagliari, will ensure excellent development opportunities throughout the project. The researcher will be allowed to support the supervision of PhD, MSc and BSc students associated with the project, to increase their competitiveness for future academic and industry roles.

For further information about the Department of Informatics at King’s, please see   https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/luc.moreau/informatics/overview.pdf .

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 18 months*, not exceeding 30th September 2026 which is the end date of the grant.

Anticipated June/July 2024 start

This is a full-time post – 100% full time equivalent

* There is potential to extend, depending on funding availability and the grant end date (30th September 2026).

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Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

Country

United Kingdom

City

London (Greater) (GB)

Where to apply

Website

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/366146/-research-associate…

Contact

City

London (Greater) (GB)

STATUS: EXPIRED