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* Two three-year postdoc positions in machine learning for cybersecurity
* Location: School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK
* Deadline for application: 8th of December, 2017
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The Northern Cloud Cybercrime Centre at Newcastle University seeks to 
understand the different types of criminal behaviour that can be 
facilitated by the Cloud and then build systems that will allow the 
detection of such crimes and the collection of digital evidence to lead 
to the prosecution of Cloud-based criminals. The centre is an 
inter-disciplinary research endeavour leveraging the strengths of 
Newcastle, Durham and Leeds Universities in areas of computer security, 
machine learning, psychology, criminology, law and ethics.

We are recruiting two posts to focus on the machine learning (including 
but not limited to deep learning) research agenda of the centre. In this 
project, you will face the research challenges of integrating 
network/cloud-related time series of very diverse and heterogeneous 
nature, developing innovative strategies for estimating the 'state' of a 
cloud system, detecting anomalies and predicting cybercrime, yielding 
human-understandable knowledge in the process.

You should have a PhD awarded or nearing completion in in machine 
learning and its applications with very strong machine learning delivery 
and project management skills.

The successful applicant for this post should have a skill set covering 
most of the following:
- Strong machine learning experience and proficiency in the state of the 
art data science languages (e.g. R, python)
- Experience in deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, and 
time-series analysis, information visualisation
- Familiarity with High Performance Computing environments (e.g. HPC 
clusters, GPUs, Cloud resources)
- Strong software development skills
- Experience in working in highly interdisciplinary environments
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work both as part of a team and independently
- Ability to work under strict deadlines

Two posts are available and are fixed term until 31.08.2020

For informal enquiries, please send an email to
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More info and instructions on how to apply: 
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BFP181/research-assistant-associate-machine-learning-d82606r2/


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Jaume Bacardit, PhD
Reader in Machine Learning
Newcastle University

The Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems research group.
Web: http://www.ico2s.org/
Twitter: @ico2s

School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK

Email: jaume _dot_ bacardit _at_ newcastle.ac.uk _dot_ ac _dot_ uk
Web: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/jaume.bacardit
Twitter: @jaumebp
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