Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science

  • Trento
  • Tempo determinato
  • Full time
  • 11 giorni fa
Offer DescriptionThe Security Research Group of the University of Trento seeks a Research Assistant Professor, a 3-year non-tenure-track position funded by the European Project Sec4AI4Sec.The Sec4AI4Sec project focuses on the security of systems and artificial intelligence (AI) and addresses the challenges introduced by the wide deployment of AI, involving both the presence of intelligent components within implemented systems (Sec4AI) and the use of AI by DevOps to support secure software development (AI4Sec).The University of Trento ranks first in the National Censis ranking 2023-2024 in the category of medium sized universities and has achieved the same position in the National Research Evaluation ranking released in April 2022 for the quality of research outputs. The Security Research group has a high international research reputation and contributed to industrial development (Two of its members contributed to the recently released Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System CVSS v4.0).The candidate will be hired as “Ricercatore di Tipo (a)” which is a non-tenure track member of staff who can also hold his or her own research grants.Additional information on the project and the position can be obtained by contacting: Fabio Massacci and Alessandro Marchetto.Duties and ResponsibilitiesResearch effort required:
  • Research goal: Develop new AI-based techniques to detect and fix software bugs and security vulnerabilities in source code.
  • Application of AI methods: Enhance existing techniques by integrating data from different sources and improve security testing and automatic software repair.
  • Project context: The research activity will be conducted under the Horizon Europe project Sec4AI4Sec.
  • Research Management: Perform management tasks and leadership responsibilities related to the project.
Teaching effort if required:
  • Normally 20 hours of lectures/labs per year, on topics coherent with the research activity within the MSc Degree in CS or AI System (Average course length - 6ECTS - 48hrs lecture) and the Ph.D. school (average course length 3ECTS - 20hrs lecture).
The overall annual hours of work for research, teaching and office hours for students within the areas indicated above equal 1,500 hours per year.RequirementsResearch Field Computer science Education Level PhD or equivalentResearch Field Engineering » Computer engineering Education Level PhD or equivalentResearch Field Computer scienceEngineering » Computer engineering Years of Research Experience 1 - 4Additional InformationWork Location(s)Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute University of Trento Country Italy City Trento Postal Code 38123 Street Via Sommarive, 9 GeofieldWhere to apply WebsiteContact State/ProvinceItaly CityTrento WebsiteStreetVia Sommarive, 9 Postal Code38123 E-Mailfabio.massacci@unitn.italessandro.marchetto@unitn.itSTATUS: EXPIRED

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