Dr. Yang Zhang at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Germany) is looking for multiple fully-funded Ph.D. students working on the following topics:
- Machine learning security and privacy
- Disinformation/deepfake measurement and detection
Yang Zhang (https://yangzhangalmo.github.io) is a faculty member at CISPA. His research mainly concentrates on the intersection of machine learning and privacy. Over the past few years, Yang has published multiple papers at top venues in computer science (particularly security), including USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, WWW, and IJCAI. His work has received NDSS 2019 distinguished paper award. He has served in the technical program committee of USENIX Security 2021 2020, ACM CCS 2021 2020 2019, and WWW 2021 2020.
CISPA (https://cispa.de/en) is one of the world-leading research institutes concentrating on information security and privacy. At the moment, it is ranked number one in the field of security worldwide (see 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. The working language of CISPA is Englis.
Requirements:
- A bachelor/master degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or Mathematics
- Excellent English (knowledge of German is not required)
- Excellent programming skills
- Good knowledge about machine learnin
What we offer:
- Full-time working contract with E13-level salary (~2,400 euros per month for 12 months in a year)
- Excellent research environment
- Strong supervision
- World-class collaborations