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Job reference
18/106894
Date posted
22/10/2018
Application closing date
22/11/2018
Salary
Professor salary will be determined in accordance with the Professorial ranges as applied within the University.
Job category/type
Academic
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Professor, Applied Cybersecurity Or Security Analytics
Job description
PROFESSOR
APPLIED CYBERSECURITY OR SECURITY ANALYTICS
Permanent FT/PT considered/flexible working available
Applications are invited for the post of Professor to join our community and help us lead and develop our research and teaching in the areas of Applied Cybersecurity and/or Security Analytics within our Centre for Secure Information Technologies
(www.csit.qub.ac.uk) as we seek to make a positive contribution to the global technical challenges of our age.
Our Centre is host to the UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE: www.ukrise.org) and is recognised by NCSC as an Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Cyber Security Research.
We are after a passionate and motivated academic with leadership experience in the areas of Cloud/Network Security, Hardware/Software Security and/or Security Analytics. We are particularly interested if you have a credible track record of technology transfer and delivering impact from your research. In return, you will have access to outstanding teaching and research facilities and opportunities to work with vibrant engineering and commercial teams to translate your research into impact.
Key duties
Communicating and building relationships both internally and externally.
Contributing to the teaching of undergraduate and specialist postgraduate curricula in computer science and computing related programmes such as our MSc in Applied Cyber Security, and the ability to inspire and motivate students to learn.
Leading and developing your research portfolio and contributing to the research portfolio of the School.
We are seeking candidates with research experience (commensurate with career stage) in one or more of the following areas:
Cloud/Network Security: security and privacy of cloud computing, application layer DDoS detection/mitigation, Web Application Firewall (WAF), network/cloud intrusion detection/prevention, malware and security models for trusted execution on the cloud.
Software Security: Security protocol and crypto algorithm implementation, instruction set extensions for crypto, software analysis, and/or software vulnerability detection.
Hardware Security: Micro-architectural security, SCA, Hardware Trojans, or PUF.
Security Analytics: AI for Cybersecurity intelligence automation and threat response automation (data-fusion); or AI technologies for cyber-social-physical security. Including deep learning, particularly adversarial, graph mining, and reasoning with uncertainty.
Our staff and students come from all over the world and we strongly believe in an inclusive and supportive work culture. We recognise the changing demands of family life and the need for flexibility in working arrangements to meet these demands. As an academic at Queen's, you can benefit from our family friendly policies including flexible working, childcare voucher scheme and parental leave. We are proud to hold an Investors in People Silver accreditation, a Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award, and a Silver Athena SWAN Award in recognition of our efforts to create a nurturing and supportive environment for our people so that they can develop and excel. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of gender, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
If you would like to find out more, I would be delighted to hear from you, Dr Karen Rafferty, Head of School (hos-eeecs@qub.ac.uk) or Professor Maire O'Neill, Research Director for Data Security Systems (m.oneill@ecit.qub.ac.uk).
Candidate Information
About the School
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Job title
Professor, Applied Cybersecurity Or Security Analytics
Job reference
18/106894
Date posted
22/10/2018
Application closing date
22/11/2018
Salary
Professor salary will be determined in accordance with the Professorial ranges as applied within the University.
Job category/type
Academic
Attachments
Blank
Job description
PROFESSOR
APPLIED CYBERSECURITY OR SECURITY ANALYTICS
Permanent FT/PT considered/flexible working available
Applications are invited for the post of Professor to join our community and help us lead and develop our research and teaching in the areas of Applied Cybersecurity and/or Security Analytics within our Centre for Secure Information Technologies
(www.csit.qub.ac.uk) as we seek to make a positive contribution to the global technical challenges of our age.
Our Centre is host to the UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE: www.ukrise.org) and is recognised by NCSC as an Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Cyber Security Research.
We are after a passionate and motivated academic with leadership experience in the areas of Cloud/Network Security, Hardware/Software Security and/or Security Analytics. We are particularly interested if you have a credible track record of technology transfer and delivering impact from your research. In return, you will have access to outstanding teaching and research facilities and opportunities to work with vibrant engineering and commercial teams to translate your research into impact.
Key duties
Communicating and building relationships both internally and externally.
Contributing to the teaching of undergraduate and specialist postgraduate curricula in computer science and computing related programmes such as our MSc in Applied Cyber Security, and the ability to inspire and motivate students to learn.
Leading and developing your research portfolio and contributing to the research portfolio of the School.
We are seeking candidates with research experience (commensurate with career stage) in one or more of the following areas:
Cloud/Network Security: security and privacy of cloud computing, application layer DDoS detection/mitigation, Web Application Firewall (WAF), network/cloud intrusion detection/prevention, malware and security models for trusted execution on the cloud.
Software Security: Security protocol and crypto algorithm implementation, instruction set extensions for crypto, software analysis, and/or software vulnerability detection.
Hardware Security: Micro-architectural security, SCA, Hardware Trojans, or PUF.
Security Analytics: AI for Cybersecurity intelligence automation and threat response automation (data-fusion); or AI technologies for cyber-social-physical security. Including deep learning, particularly adversarial, graph mining, and reasoning with uncertainty.
Our staff and students come from all over the world and we strongly believe in an inclusive and supportive work culture. We recognise the changing demands of family life and the need for flexibility in working arrangements to meet these demands. As an academic at Queen's, you can benefit from our family friendly policies including flexible working, childcare voucher scheme and parental leave. We are proud to hold an Investors in People Silver accreditation, a Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award, and a Silver Athena SWAN Award in recognition of our efforts to create a nurturing and supportive environment for our people so that they can develop and excel. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of gender, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
If you would like to find out more, I would be delighted to hear from you, Dr Karen Rafferty, Head of School (hos-eeecs@qub.ac.uk) or Professor Maire O'Neill, Research Director for Data Security Systems (m.oneill@ecit.qub.ac.uk).
Candidate Information
About the School
Information for International Applicants