Connectionists: PhD position in Private and Secure Machine

[Christos Dimitrakakis]

PhD position in Secure and Private Machine Learning and Decision Making

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.

The student will be employed in the scope of the Swiss Sense Synergy
project, whose aim is to develop intelligent location-based networking
protocols and crowdsourcing applications. 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.  In particular, the research will be focused on
machine learning and differential privacy for distributed systems, but
some aspects of the work will involve recent advances in cryptography.
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/ ). Further info about the
SwissSenseSynergy project can be found here http://goo.gl/tmQ9NJ 

The application deadline is November 21, 2014. Apply here:

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