Connectionists: PhD studentship in Private and Secure Machine Learning and Decision Making at Chalmers

[Christos Dimitrakakis]

PhD studentship in Private and Secure Machine Learning and Decision Making
at Chalmers

------ General information  -------

We are looking for an excellent, motivated, self-driven doctoral student to
work in the area of machine learning and decision theory with a focus on
security and privacy. The position is for five years at the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, within the division of Computing Science
and the group of Algorithms, Learning and Computational Biology (
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/lab/), who are doing research on fields
ranging from machine learning, statistics, algorithms, optimisation,
reinforcement learning to computational biology, text and massive data
analysis.

We particularly welcome applications from students in Computer Science,
Mathematics and Statistics. Experience in statistics, machine learning,
information theory, optimisatiom, decision and game theory is especially
valuable. Familiarity with topics in privacy, security and cryptography is
also advantageous, but not essential.

------ Research topic ------

The student will be expected to develop and analyse state-of-the-art
algorithms for distributed machine learning and decision making that
provide users with strong privacy guarantees.  The research will be at the
intersection of machine learning, differential privacy and mechanism
design. The aim will be to develop machine learning algorithms for
distributed systems which optimally trade off the balance between user
privacy and system utility. The research will be mainly theoretical. The
student will be supervised by Dr. Christos Dimitrakakis (Machine learning,
decision theory and differential privacy - see
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~chrdimi/ ) and co-supervised by Dr. Katerina
Mitrokotsa (Cryptography and security - see
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/ ).

Employment will be in the scope of the Swiss Sense Synergy project, whose
aim is to develop intelligent location-based networking protocols and
crowdsourcing applications, in collaboration with three Swiss universities.
Further info about the Swiss Sense Synergy project can be found here
http://goo.gl/tmQ9NJ

------ How to apply -----

The application review process is already under way. The final application
deadline is November 21, 2014.
The position is expected to begin in January 2015, or soon thereafter.

Apply here:
http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=2438

Contact Christos Dimitrakakis <chrdimi at chalmers.se> or Aikaterini
Mitrokotsa <aikmitr at chalmers.se> if you have any questions about this
position.
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