德国CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security 招生博士生

Prof. Dr. Michael Backes and Dr. Yang Zhang at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security are looking for multiple fully-funded Ph.D. students working on machine learning privacy and/or biomedical privacy.

CISPA is one of the world-leading research institutes concentrating on information security and privacy. It is constantly ranked top-3 in the field worldwide, see, e.g., CSrankings.org (http://csrankings.org/#/index?sec&world). Located at Saarbruecken Germany, CISPA is the newest member of the Helmholtz Association (https://www.helmholtz.de/en/), the largest scientific organization in Germany fully committed to scientific excellence and to tackling the grand research challenges in their respective fields.

Michael Backes ( https://cispa.saarland/director/ ) is the Founding Director of CISPA. His current research focuses on the development of methods for protecting personal data, especially medical data; investigating trustworthy methods for Machine Learning as well as universal solutions in Software and System Security. Over the last years, Mr. Backes has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious international journals and conference proceedings and has been honored with highly renowned awards, in particular, the ERC Synergy Grant, the EU’s most distinguished research award. In 2009, Mr. Backes was Germany’s first researcher to receive the MIT TR35 Award. He is moreover the youngest member to date in acaTech, Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering. He has received an honorary doctorate by Université de Lorraine and is an IEEE Fellow.

Yang Zhang ( https://yangzhangalmo.github.io ) is a research group leader at CISPA. His research mainly concentrates on data privacy. Topics include machine learning privacy, biomedical privacy, social network privacy, and location privacy. Besides, he also works on urban computing, social media analysis, and data mining. Dr. Zhang has published multiple papers at top venues in computer science including WWW, CCS, NDSS, and IJCAI. His work has received NDSS 2019 distinguished paper award. He has served in the technical program committee of ACM CCS 2019, PETS 2020, and WWW 2020.

Requirements:
● A bachelor/master degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or Mathematics
● Excellent English
● Excellent programming skills
● Good knowledge about machine learning and/or cryptography

What we offer:
● Full-time working contract (12-month E13 level salary, around 2400 euros per month)
● Excellent research environment
● Strong supervision
● World-class collaborations

To apply, please send your
● CV
● Transcripts
to zhang@cispa.saarland

Closing Date for Application: 2020-02-01