The Cybersecurity division at the department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University is looking for a postdoc in AI for cybersecurity of communication software. You will work together with Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, professor in dependable systems and networks, within the research group Trustworthy systems that has around 20 members. The group participates in several national and international collaborations, including the newly funded centre RESIST that brings together leading researchers in AI and cybersecurity to develop novel solutions to cyber-resilient AI for the benefit of Swedish industry and society. As a junior researcher a postdoc will be offered the opportunity to mature in an internationally renowned research environment with excellent facilities and a wide network of collaboration in industry and academia.
Work assignments
AIR2 is a five-year multidisciplinary national project financed by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous systems, and Software Program (WASP) whereby you will have the opportunity of collaboration with top researchers within cybersecurity, networking, AI planning, and cloud computing, both within our department and two other universities in Sweden (KTH and Umeå University). The project is coordinated by Professor Simin Nadjm-Tehrani within the Cybersecurity division at Linköping University, and aims to understand the cybersecurity challenges in software-intensive and high-performance communication networks using AI-powered methods.
We will advance the research front in defending future generation networks by:
- prevention of cyberthreats through anticipating and mitigating them,
- accurate detection of ongoing attacks with well-understood AI methods used for system and network monitoring,
- (partially) autonomous and explainable reaction to attacks in presence of resource trade-offs and complex potential changes over time (concept drift).
The project is financed by a NEST grant within WASP. In this project we are looking for an excellent candidate who has a strong background in the following areas as evidenced by earlier research publications; Creation of virtualised container-based testbeds for experimental research on network security, integration of industrial use cases and digital twins, AI-based domain-specific emulations for new generation networks, attack generation and detection in virtualised 5G networks.
As postdoc, you will principally carry out research. A certain amount of teaching may be part of your duties, up to a maximum of 20% of working hours.
