Alan Turing Institute - Research Assistant in Security, Privacy and Machine Learning

The Alan Turing Institute

The Defence & Security programme at the Turing is looking to expand a newly formed team of researchers working on real-world security and privacy challenges at the intersection of machine-learning and cyber security.

As a team, we aim to advance the state-of-the-art and publish cutting-edge research across both domains. Day to day, we collaborate with technical and subject matter experts from our partner organisations as well as academics, software engineers, and data scientists from across the Turing’s research community. We present our work to a range of audiences including research colleagues, senior decision makers and non-technical stakeholders. For our models we use national clusters and cloud computing platforms to realise science and artificial intelligence research at scale.

Role purpose

This role will sit within the new AI for Cyber Defence (AICD) Research Centre. The AICD is aiming to become a world-class research centre, at the Alan Turing Institute, focussed on delivering the science needed for developing autonomous and resilient cyber defence using reinforcement learning (RL) and other autonomous approaches to learning from interaction. This involves both the application of existing AI algorithms and techniques as well as fundamentally advancing AI where necessary.

The technical scope of this role includes:

  • Advancing open security and privacy problems that might be solved with modern AI techniques
  • Conducting relevant foundational research on AI including making improvements to existing techniques and proposing alternatives that advance the state of the art.
  • Writing papers for submission to high quality peer review venues (e.g., USENIX, ACM CCS, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, IEEE S&P).

Duties and areas of responsibility

The research assistant will work closely with the Centre Leads based at Turing Institute to:

  • Pursue collaborative research of high quality, consistent with making a full active research contribution in line with the research strategy outlined by the Centre Leads.
  • Write or contribute to publications or disseminate research findings using other appropriate media.
  • Attend and present research findings and papers at academic and professional conferences, and to contribute to the external visibility of the Institute.
  • Ensure compliance with secure handling of data and health and safety in all aspects of work.
  • Participate in and develop internal and external partnerships, for example to identify sources of funding, generate income, obtain projects, or build relationships for future activities.
  • Contribute to the running of workshops to showcase early-stage research in the area.
  • Participate in international research challenges and competitions.

This full-time post is offered on a fixed-term basis until March 2025.

Further details, including how to apply, can be found at: Cezanne OnDemand | Vacancies | Research Assistant - Security, Privacy and Machine Learning (intervieweb.it)

Should you have any queries, please email recruitment@turing.ac.uk.

Closing date: Sunday 19 February 2023, 23:59 GMT.