PhD Studentship in ioT Security & Privacy – University of Surrey, UK

PhD Studentship in IoT Security & Privacy – University of Surrey, UK

We are looking for an excellent, motivated, self-driven doctoral student to work in the exciting area of Internet of things (IoT) security and privacy focusing on developing new, smarter, and more agile security approaches. The PhD student will join the Secure Systems group (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/cs/research/) for three years, working in the area of secure and privacy-preserving communication and execution of the core IoT end-points including resource-constrained embedded devices, mobile phones (in the context of mobile sensing applications) and vehicles.

The PhD student is expected to hold at least an upper second class honours degree and preferably a Master’s degree in CS, EE, Information Security or similar discipline. Basic knowledge of computer networking, network and embedded systems security is required, with some background in cryptography and native code based systems.

The position is funded for three years and is intended to start in July 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Contact: Thanassis Giannetsos (a.giannetsos@surrey.ac.uk)

Lecturer in Secure Systems

Department of Computer Science

University of Surrey

GU2 7XH

For more information and to apply:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/projects/phd-student-position-iot-security-and-privacy

Closing date for applications: 2016-06-20

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