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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: Research on techniques for security testing of communication protocols. Research at the department develops techniques for analyzing security of communication protocols and IoT software, in particular within the project aSSIsT, supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). The holder of the position will further develop techniques based on black-box testing and automata learning for testing security properties of communication protocols.

The position is funded by a five-year grant aSSIsT: Secure Software for the Internet of
Things (https://assist-project.github.io/), supported by SSF (the Foundation for Strategic Research), which brings together several groups at Uppsala University (Bengt Jonsson, Parosh Abdulla, Mohammed Faouzi Atig, Philipp Ruemmer, Kostis Sagonas, Wang Yi) that are world-renowned in the fields of automated verification, programming language implementation, and testing.

Requirements: Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent. A successful candidate should have a strong research experience in protocol testing and automata learning, as well as be proficient in building software systems and tools. The applicant must have good skills in spoken and written English.

Salary: Individual salary.

Starting date: 17-09-2021 or as otherwise agreed.

Type of employment:  Temporary position 12 months.

Scope of employment: 100%.

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

Please submit your application by 17 June 2021 UFV-PA 2021/2373.

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