PhD positions at Imperial College London on privacy and impact of algorithms on society (fully funded, deadline for the first round: Nov 9, 2022)
Our Computational Privacy Group at Imperial College London is offering fully funded PhD positions for 2022 to study privacy, data protection, and the impact of algorithms on society.
Topics of current interests include, for instance, individual privacy in large-scale behavioral datasets; re-identification attacks against privacy-preserving data systems or aggregates, privacy of machine learning models, attacks against client side-scanning solutions and ML algorithms, privacy engineering solutions such as differential privacy and query-based systems, ethics and fairness in AI, and computational social science.
We publish in top computer science conferences such as Usenix Security and ACM CCS as well as interdisciplinary journals such as Science and Nature Communications.
For full details, please consult https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/openings/
Deadline: Nov 9, 2022 (first deadline)
Recommended prerequisites. MSc or MEng (4y BEng will be considered) in computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, or a related field. Experience in machine learning and/or statistics is a plus.
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, in particular women, disabled, BAME, and LGBTQIA+ candidates.
About Imperial. Imperial College London, ranked 8th globally, is one of the top universities in the world. The Department of Computing was ranked as the best one in the UK in the latest official REF (UK research assessment framework). A full-time PhD at the South Kensington Campus takes 3-4 years, is fully funded, and usually starts in October or January.
Informal queries can be sent to Professor Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye at yvesalexandre@demontjoye.com.