Hiring for AP4L | Light Blue Touchpaper

I’m hiring a Research Assistant/Associate to work on the EPSRC-funded Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People throughout Life Transitions (AP4L) mission. The mission is being undertaken with the Universities of Surrey, Queen Mary, Strathclyde, Edge Hill, and Edinburgh.

AP4L is a program of interdisciplinary analysis, centring on the net privateness & vulnerability challenges that individuals face when going by main life transitions. The 4 transitions we’re contemplating within the scope of this mission are relationship breakdowns; LBGT+ transitions or transitioning gender; getting into/ leaving employment within the Armed Forces; and creating a critical sickness or turning into terminally ailing. Our central objective is to develop privacy-by-design applied sciences to guard & empower individuals throughout these transitions.

We are in search of a researcher with expertise in quantitative knowledge evaluation, risk evaluation, knowledge science, machine studying and/or pure language processing, in addition to glorious programming and technical writing abilities. Expertise in cybercrime or privateness enhancing applied sciences (PETs) analysis is fascinating, however not important. Successful candidates will assessment the related literature, design analysis initiatives, develop instruments, acquire and analyse knowledge, and write analysis outputs.

The position will analyse life transitions from the attacker’s perspective, resembling how and the place they collect details about their victims.

This would require the evaluation of cybercrime boards and comparable knowledge at scale. Furthermore, the instruments we develop are designed for an adversarial context. Adversaries embody these identified to people, resembling interfamilial abuse, in addition to focused and indiscriminate assaults. The researcher may also undertake a rigorous risk evaluation for every of the instruments developed inside the general mission.

The full particulars can be found right here.