NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY – NTNU: PhD Candidate in Reliable AI

In regards to the job

For a place as a PhD Candidate, the objective is a accomplished doctoral education as much as an obtained doctoral diploma.

The adoption of AI has skilled outstanding progress lately, with AI techniques and parts now built-in into quite a few vital duties. Consequently, trusting AI workflows has emerged as an important prerequisite for the widespread acceptance of current technological developments on this area. The operational paradigm of AI techniques has advanced from centralized to completely distributed, with possession of coaching knowledge, mannequin coaching, and mannequin utilization typically attributed to disparate actors with out established belief between them. This decentralization introduces vulnerabilities, as adversarial machine learning strategies can pose vital threats to the accuracy of AI techniques, the integrity of related knowledge, and the privateness of entities concerned within the coaching or inference phases. Consequently, there may be an pressing want for strategies and tooling to safeguard AI techniques in opposition to these threats and improve belief of their capabilities and reliability.

The place is inside the the Essential Infrastructure Safety and Resilience group at NTNU and is carefully associated to the “Reliable AI” pillar of the Enfield: European Lighthouse to Manifest Reliable and Inexperienced AI HORIZON Europe that’s being coordinated by the group.

Your rapid chief is the Chief of the Data Safety Self-discipline on the Division of Data Safety and Communication Know-how.

Duties of the place

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• The PhD candidate will work on difficult research issues associated to reliable AI, in direction of growing strategies and tooling to safeguard AI techniques in opposition to cybersecurity threats and improve belief of their capabilities and reliability.
• The work may even embody investigating cryptographic strategies (e.g., zero-knowledge proofs, distributed ledger technology) that allow the verification of processing for AI, to permit adoption of AI performance in mission vital techniques for which integrity of operations is demanded.

Required choice standards

• You could have a professionally related background in Data Safety, Synthetic Intelligence, Pc Science or comparable engineering education.
• Your education should correspond to a five-year Norwegian diploma program, the place 120 credit are obtained at grasp’s degree.
• You could have a powerful tutorial background out of your earlier research and a mean grade from the grasp’s diploma program, or equal education, which is the same as B or higher in contrast with NTNU’s grading scale. When you should not have letter grades from earlier research, you have to have an equally good tutorial foundation. When you’ve got a weaker grade background, chances are you’ll be assessed should you can doc that you’re significantly appropriate for a PhD education.
• Grasp’s college students can apply, however the grasp’s diploma have to be obtained and documented by 31 July 2024.
• You could meet the necessities for admission to the IE college’s doctoral program.

The appointment is to be made in accordance with Laws on phrases of employment for positions reminiscent of postdoctoral fellow, Phd candidate, research assistant and specialist candidate and Laws regarding the levels of Philosophiae Physician (PhD) and Philosodophiae Physician (PhD) in artistic research nationwide pointers for appointment as PhD, put up physician and research assistant 

Most well-liked choice standards

• Background in info/cyber security.
• Expertise with machine learning.
• Robust motivation for prime quality research.
• Programming and modeling expertise in related instruments (e.g. MATLAB, LabView).
• Analysis background inside no less than one of many aforementioned fields.
• Wonderful communication skills.
• Completeness of utility.
• Wonderful written and oral English language expertise

Private traits

• Be scientifically curious and open to new research challenges.
• Show independence and persistence in addressing technical issues.
• Be versatile and dependable, with capability to work successfully independently and as a part of a crew.

Emphasis might be positioned on private and interpersonal qualities.

We provide

Wage and situations

As a PhD candidate (code 1017) you’re usually paid from gross NOK 532 200 each year earlier than tax, relying on {qualifications} and seniority. From the wage, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The interval of employment is 3 years.

Appointment to a PhD place requires that you’re admitted to the PhD programme in Data Safety and Communication Know-how inside three months of employment, and that you simply take part in an organized PhD programme through the employment interval.

The engagement is to be made in accordance with the rules in power regarding State Workers and Civil Servants, and the acts referring to Management of the Export of Strategic Items, Providers and Know-how. Candidates who by evaluation of the appliance and attachment are seen to battle with the factors within the latter law might be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU.

After the appointment you have to assume that there could also be modifications within the space of labor.

It’s a prerequisite you might be current at and accessible to the establishment every day.

In regards to the utility

The appliance and supporting documentation for use as the idea for the evaluation have to be in English.

Publications and different scientific work should comply with the appliance. Please be aware that your utility might be thought of primarily based solely on info submitted by the appliance deadline. You could subsequently be certain that your utility clearly demonstrates how your expertise and expertise fulfil the factors specified above.

The appliance should embody:

• CV and certificates.
• Transcripts and diplomas for bachelor’s and grasp’s levels. When you’ve got not accomplished the grasp’s diploma, you have to submit a affirmation that the grasp’s thesis has been submitted.
• A replica of the grasp’s thesis. When you just lately have submitted your grasp’s thesis, you possibly can connect a draft of the thesis. Documentation of a accomplished grasp’s diploma have to be introduced earlier than taking on the place.
• Identify and speak to info of three referees.
• When you’ve got publications or different related research work.

If all, or elements, of your education has been taken overseas, we additionally ask you to connect documentation of the scope and high quality of your whole education, each bachelor’s and grasp’s education, along with different increased education. Description of the documentation required might be discovered right here. If you have already got an announcement from NOKUT, please connect this as effectively.

We’ll take joint work under consideration. Whether it is troublesome to establish your efforts within the joint work, you have to enclose a brief description of your participation.

Within the analysis of which candidate is finest certified, emphasis might be positioned on education, expertise and private and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential may even depend within the evaluation of the candidates. 

NTNU is dedicated to following analysis standards for research high quality in response to The San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation – DORA.

Basic info

Working at NTNU

NTNU believes that inclusion and variety is our energy. We need to recruit folks with completely different competencies, instructional backgrounds, life experiences and views to contribute to fixing our social tasks inside education and research. We’ll facilitate for our workers’ wants.

NTNU is working actively to extend the variety of girls employed in scientific positions and has a variety of sources to promote equality. 

Town of Gjøvik has a inhabitants of 30 000 and is a city recognized for its wealthy music and cultural life. The gorgeous nature surrounding town is right for an lively outside life! The Norwegian welfare state, together with healthcare, faculties, kindergartens and general equality, might be the perfect of its form on the earth.

As an worker at NTNU, you have to always adhere to the modifications that the event within the topic entails and the organizational modifications which are adopted.

A public listing of candidates with title, age, job title and municipality of residence is ready after the appliance deadline. If you wish to reserve your self from entry on the general public applicant listing, this have to be justified. Evaluation might be made in accordance with present laws. You’ll be notified if the reservation isn’t accepted.

When you’ve got any questions concerning the place, please contact Teresa.ok.hoel, phone 61135261, e mail Teresa.ok.hoel@ntnu.no. When you’ve got any questions concerning the recruitment course of, please contact Teresa.ok.hoel@ntnu.no

When you assume this seems to be attention-grabbing and consistent with your {qualifications}, please submit your utility electronically by way of jobbnorge.no together with your CV, diplomas and certificates hooked up. Functions submitted elsewhere is not going to be thought of. Upon request, you have to have the ability to receive licensed copies of your documentation.  

Utility deadline: 31.05.24

NTNU – information for a greater world

The Norwegian College of Science and Know-how (NTNU) creates information for a greater world and options that may change on a regular basis life.

Division of Data Safety and Communication Know-how

Analysis is important to the security of our society. We educate and conduct research in cyber security, info security, communications networks and networked companies. Our areas of experience embody biometrics, cyber defence, cryptography, digital forensics, security in e-health and welfare technology, clever transportation techniques and malware. The Division of Data Safety and Communication Know-how is one in every of seven departments within the School of Data Know-how and Electrical Engineering .

Deadline thirty first Might 2024

Employer NTNU – Norwegian College of Science and Know-how

Municipality Gjøvik

Scope Fulltime

Length Short-termPlace of service Teknologiveien 22, 2815 Gjøvik