postdoc in malware detection at TU Delft

[Sicco Verwer]

We are looking for postdoc to improve state-of-the-art malware detection!

Please forward to potentially interested candidates.

Thanks,
Sicco Verwer


Post-doc in Process Profiling for Collaborative Malware Detection in Foxguard
Department/faculty: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Level: PhD degree (post doc)
Working hours: 38 hours per week
Contract: 1 year
Salary: €2476 to €3908 per month gross
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) is known worldwide for its high academic quality and the social relevance of its research programmes. The faculty’s excellent facilities accentuate its international position in teaching and research. The faculty offers an interdisciplinary setting for its 500 employees, 400 PhD students and 1700 undergraduates. Together they work on a broad range of technical innovations in the fields of sustainable energy, telecommunications, microelectronics, embedded systems, computer and software engineering, interactive multimedia and applied mathematics. EEMCS: Your Connection to the Future.

The Department of Intelligent Systems (INSY) conducts research on processing, interpretation and securing of data to enable man and machine to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of data and communication. We have a strong focus on security, multimedia, and health sciences. The cybersecurity section in INSY is a collaborative effort with the Technology, Policy, and Management (TPM) faculty to solve complex security issues from both a computer scientist’s and a policy maker's viewpoint.
Job description

Within the recently granted Foxguard project (https://www.thehaguesecuritydelta.com/projects/project/56-hsd-development-fund-second-edition), you will work closely together with Dr. Sicco Verwer and Prof. Jan van den Berg to develop the next generation intrusion detection system. Streams of suspicious and security-related events, detected at different hosts within a large corporate network using the Foxguard tool, need to be combined in real-time in order to localise possible security breaches. You will develop a tool for this purpose based on state-of-the-art data stream mining, collaborative intrusion detection, and information fusion technology. You will join a team of security experts from Fox-IT (https://www.fox-it.com/en/) that are on a mission to complete this project. The tool will be tested at several end-users of Foxguard: Philips, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Greenpeace, and the Zaanstad municipality. This exciting, high-impact project is on a tight schedule. A proof-of-concept tool should be ready in one year's time. We therefore expect to start on the tool development quickly after hiring.
Requirements

We invite applicants who meet the following requirements:
PhD degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, or mathematics.
Excellent programming skills and a solid background in cyber security or machine learning, preferably both.
A good understanding of spoken and written English.
Published work in (host-based) intrusion detection, malware reverse-engineering, collaborative machine learning, information fusion, or data stream mining is a plus.
Conditions of employment

The TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week and the option of assembling a customised compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
Information and application

For more information about this position, please contact Sicco Verwer, phone: +31 (0)15-2788435, e-mail: s.e.v...@tudelft.nl. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV, three references, a list of publications, and a link to your PhD thesis along with a letter of application by 1 May 2015 to Dr. Verwer, s.e.v...@tudelft.nl.
When applying for this position, please refer to vacancy number EWI2015-10.


Information: http://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/