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Research Fellow in Verification or Security or Concurrent/Distributed Systems
Computer Science
| Location: |
Guildford |
| Salary: |
£35,308 to £38,474
per annum
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| Post Type: |
Full Time |
| Closing Date: |
23.59 hours BST on Friday 01 September 2023
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| Reference: |
035723 |
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Surrey is seeking to recruit two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on a range of topics in the areas including:
- emerging hardware architectures (weak memory, RDMA, persistent memory, CXL)
- formal modelling, verification and/or logic,
- Interactive and automated tools, such as theorem provers and model checkers
- proofs of safety and/or security properties,
- programming languages and/or type systems,
- concurrent and/or distributed algorithms
- and related topics.
We are looking for applicants that demonstrate strong research in one or more of the above areas backed by a strong publication record.
The positions are funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) projects:
The successful applicant will work in a multidisciplinary team under the guidance of Brijesh Dongol (PI) and Gregory Chockler (co-I), as well as a large team of academic (Imperial, Kent, Sheffield, MPI-SWS, Cornell, IMDEA, etc) and industrial collaborators (Arm, NVIDIA, Galois), researchers and PhD students.
Applicants must have or be close to obtaining a PhD in Computer Science.
Deadline for applications
The deadline for applications is September 1st, 2023. The posts are available for up to 36 months in the first instance to begin on October 1st, 2023, or as soon as practical thereafter.
Research Environment
Surrey is recognized by the NCSC as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and offers a thriving research environment with world-leading researchers. Brijesh Dongol is a Director of the NCSC/UK Research Institute on Verified Trustworthy Software Systems (VeTSS, https://vetss.org.uk/) hosted jointly at Surrey and Imperial.
Our research includes security verification, protocol design and analysis, distributed and network systems, concurrency, data privacy, privacy preserving security, and applied cryptography. We offer access to a variety of cutting-edge hardware testbeds including a 7-node RDMA cluster (NVIDIA) as well as machines equipped with persistent memory (Intel Optane) and trusted execution environments (Intel SGX).
The University is committed to equality and diversity. Research staff at the Department are supported and encouraged in their career development through mentoring and early career researcher training. The Department fosters a collegial and collaborative atmosphere, in which individuals are valued for the varied skills and perspectives they bring.
Enquiries
For informal enquiries and further information please contact Brijesh Dongol at b.dongol@surrey.ac.uk or Gregory Chockler at g.chockler@surrey.ac.uk.
To apply please submit your CV, a Cover Letter and Research Statement and a copy of a recent representative publication. All of these can be attached as part of your application.
You can find out more about our benefits here https://www.surrey.ac.uk/working-at-surrey/staff-benefits
Interview planned for mid September 2023 date to be confirmed.
Please note, it is University Policy to offer a starting salary equivalent to Level 3.6 (£34,980) to successful applicants who have been awarded, but are yet to receive, their PhD certificate. Once the original PhD certificate has been submitted to the local HR Department, the salary will be increased to Level 4.1 (£36,024).