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[ Dear colleagues, I would be grateful if you could disseminate this advert] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Two three-year postdoc positions in machine learning for cybersecurity * Location: School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK * Deadline for application: 8th of December, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] More info and instructions on how to apply: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BFP181/research-assistant-associate-machine-learning-d82606r2/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------