Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology

The Department of Information Technology has a leading position in research and education. The Department currently has about 280 employees, including 120 teachers and 110 PhD students. More than 4000 students study one or more courses at the department each year. More info: http://www.it.uu.se

Duties/Project description: The overall topic for the positions is the development of techniques for verification, testing, and security analysis of software. Techniques for ensuring that software is free of bugs and security vulnerabilities are of utmost importance, since software vulnerabilities can often be exploited to cause huge damage. Techniques in the scope of the project include program analysis, verification, symbolic execution, testing, fuzzing, taint analysis, and model learning, supported by constraint solving and SMT. The goals include to significantly extend the power and scalability of currently available techniques to make them applicable to real-world code bases; including concurrent and embedded software, as well as software for IoT systems.

Environment: The positions are funded by several projects: Projects from the Swedish Research Council and the KAW foundation support basic research on verification and testing of concurrent and embedded programs and on the design and analysis of updatable embedded systems. The Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) supports the project aSSIsT aSSIsT: Secure Software for the Internet of Things (https://assist-project.github.io/). The effort will be conducted in an environment which brings together several groups at Uppsala University (Bengt Jonsson, Parosh Abdulla, Mohammed Faouzi Atig, Philipp Ruemmer, Kostis Sagonas, Thiemo Voigt, Luca Mottola, Wang Yi) that are world-renowned in the fields of automated verification, programming language implementation, testing, networked embedded systems, and drones. Contributions include the UPPAAL model checker, high-impact techniques and tools for testing and verification of multithreaded software, including Concuerror and Nidhugg, and several tools for the Erlang programming language.

The position is for a maximum of five years and includes departmental duties at a level of at most 20% (typically teaching) as well as taking graduate courses. The candidate will be expected to teach in English or Swedish.

Requirements: The candidate should have a Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent, in a field which is relevant for the work. We expect the candidate to be fluent in verbal and written English.

Additional qualifications: It is helpful to have a good background in some of the fields of testing, program analysis, compiler techniques, model checking, formal verification, software engineering, and similar, as well as to be proficient in implementing non-trivial algorithms.

How to apply: The application should include a statement of purpose, motivating preferred research directions. The application should further include a description of past experience, a CV, copies of exams, degrees and grades, a copy of Master thesis (or a draft thereof), relevant publications, and other relevant documents. The candidates should indicate the earliest feasible starting date of employment and are encouraged to provide letter(s) of recommendation and contact information to reference persons.

Rules governing PhD students are set out in the Higher Education Ordinance chapter 5, §§ 1-7 and in Uppsala University's rules and guidelines http://regler.uu.se/?languageId=1.

Salary: According to local agreement for PhD students.

Starting date: As soon as possible.

Type of employment: Temporary position according to the Higher Education Ordinance chapter 5 § 7.

Scope of employment: 100 %

For further information about the position please contact: Bengt Jonsson, bengt.jonsson@it.uu.se

Please submit your application by 31 July 2020, UFV-PA 2020/2536.

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Type of employment Temporary position
Contract type Full time
First day of employment Snarast
Salary Fixed salary
Number of positions 3
Full-time equivalent 100 %
City Uppsala
County Uppsala län
Country Sweden
Reference number UFV-PA 2020/2536
Union representative
  • ST/TCO, tco@fackorg.uu.se
  • Seko Universitetsklubben, seko@uadm.uu.se
  • Saco-rådet, saco@uadm.uu.se
Published 22.Jun.2020
Last application date 31.Jul.2020 11:59 PM CEST

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