Doctoral student in Electrical Engineering focusing on Applied Cryptography and Privacy

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Description of the business

The Department of Security and Network Systems at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology works wide with research in cryptography, data security, wireless and fixed networks. The security group within the department has about 20 members. The main research orientations are cryptography, integrity and system security for connected systems. The department drives several research projects through various large collaboration platforms and arranges extensive workshops and seminar series, which makes the research at the department visible to a larger audience. Interdisciplinary projects are formed through our research collaboration platforms and national and international research networks, which contributes to a dynamic research environment.

To be a PhD

As a doctoral student, you are both admitted as a student and employed at Lund University.

As a graduate student, you are trained in a scientific approach. It can be briefly described as you get exercise in thinking critically and analytically, that you can solve problems independently using the right method selection and you get a research ethical awareness. In addition, the opportunity for you as a doctoral student is to work with projects, developing your leadership qualities and your educational ability. Throughout your study time, you are guided by supervisors. The research studies are concluded with a thesis and a doctoral degree.

More about being a doctoral student at LTH at LTH.SE.

Subject and project description

Through Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software program (WASP), we now offer a new doctoral service in the field of cryptography. WASP is Sweden's largest individual research program ever, a significant national investment in strategically motivated basic research, education and recruitment of researchers. The program deals with research on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems that cooperate with people, adapts to their surroundings through sensors, information and knowledge, and form intelligent system AV systems.

More about WASP (Wasp-Sweden.org).

The main duties for the doctoral student is to conduct research and teaching in the field of cryptography. The research is focused on the broader area for integrity-conservation communication and outsourcing of calculations. Communication over the Internet is vulnerable to monitoring and censorship. Integrity conservation communication techniques (eg, Tor, Nym, Snowflake) allows users to circumvent such monitoring and censorship. The research area includes designing, analyzing and

Implement such systems; In addition, studies of different attacks and countermeasures are expected to be included in the research method.

Integrity conservation of calculations allows users to output calculation tasks on a cloud server without the server being informed of user data or even the type of calculations being performed. There are various techniques for such privacy-keeping outsourcing of calculations, such as Trusted Execution Environment (eg Intel SGX) and Full homomor fish encryption (TFHE, BGV). Furthermore, the specific functions / data may be subject to attacks, and identifying attacks and countermeasures are expected to be included in the research. The research method will be a combination of system studies, design and experimental research.

Tasks

You will primarily engage in your postgraduate education, which includes both participation in research projects and postgraduate courses, seminars and conferences.

The tasks include:

• Research in applied cryptography.
• Participation in research projects.
• To go doctoral courses.
• The tasks also include participation in teaching and other institution work (however Max 20% of working hours).

Qualifications

In order to be adopted and employed as a doctoral student, you need to meet the requirements below.

Eligibility requirements

Basic eligibility for postgraduate education meets you who have:

• departed exam on advanced level or
• completed course claims on at least 240 higher education credits, at least 60 High school credits at advanced level or
• In some other way, the corresponding knowledge is mainly acquired.

Special eligibility for electrical engineering meets you who have:

• least 60 college points at advanced level with relevance to the subject area, or
• Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Medicine and Technology, Technical Physics, Technical Mathematics or Technical Nanoscience.

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