Umeå University Department of Computing Science is seeking a PhD student in Computing Science with focus on Computer Security.
Position description
Our societies rely on computer systems and on software stacks. Unfortunately, software systems contain bugs and vulnerabilities which can be exploited by malicious actors. This project will be conducted in the Software Engineering and Security (SES) group. The student will conduct an in-depth investigation of a class of vulnerabilities and devise static and/or dynamic approaches to detect them in the code or prevent their execution at runtime. The focus will be on a fuzzing approach in a Java/Android environment.
Keywords for this project: code analysis, static analysis, reverse engineering, defense mechanisms, vulnerability detection, exploit mitigation techniques, scalability, software systems, software quality, malware, computer security, fuzzing, software testing.
