PhD Student (Doctoral Researcher/Research Assistant) in Private Machine Learning for Mobile...

The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt is offers a full position as

Doctoral Researcher (Research Assistant / PhD Student) in Private Machine Learning for Mobile Applications

The position is available from October 1, 2021 for the duration of up to 3 years with the possibility of extension.

What this job is about

You will be working in the research training group/doctoral college Privacy & Trust for Mobile Users  funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In our sub-project, we build cryptography-based private machine learning services for mobile applications and investigate their legal applicability (data protection) and economic feasibility in interdisciplinary collaborations.

As a doctoral researcher at ENCRYPTO, you will conduct research, build prototype implementations, and publish and present the results at top conferences and journals. You will also be involved in our teaching activities and supervise thesis students as well as student assistants.

Details: https://encrypto.de/RTG

What we do

Our mission is to demonstrate that privacy can be efficiently protected in real-world applications. For this, we bring theory into practice by using methods from applied cryptography and algorithm engineering for developing protocols, tools, and software prototypes to efficiently protect sensitive data in various applications. Details: https://encrypto.de/topics

Why ENCRYPTO

We provide an open and international working environment for excellent research in a sociable team and give the opportunity for further qualification (doctoral/PhD degree). TU Darmstadt is a top research university for IT security and cryptography in Europe  and computer science in Germany .

The position is based in the “City of Science” Darmstadt, which is very international and livable, and well-connected in the Rhine-Main area around Frankfurt. Knowledge of German is beneficial but not required, and TU Darmstadt offers a Welcome Center  and corresponding language courses.