Postdoc in PML Privacy

Job description

Data privacy is an increasingly critical concern in our digital world, as we share more and more information about ourselves and our lives online. However, privacy concerns often hinder data sharing, which can limit our ability to learn from data and create new technologies. To overcome this hurdle, a theoretical framework is being developed to ensure that data can be processed in a privacy-preserving manner.

The aim of the project is to develop a privacy-by-design framework that incorporates a powerful privacy measure called "pointwise maximal leakage." This statistical measure provides provable privacy guarantees, allowing for a thorough privacy risk analysis as required by GDPR. Pointwise maximal leakage has a more flexible definition that allows for the incorporation of prior domain knowledge, preventing overly conservative privacy mechanisms that unnecessarily diminish utility.

The postdoc should continue our research developing analytical tools for privacy risk assessment and optimal design approaches using pointwise maximal leakage as the privacy measure.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

Read more about what it is like to work at KTH

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Strong background in privacy and pointwise maximal leakage.
• Research expertise.
• Teaching abilities.
• The successful applicant should be strongly motivated, have the capability to work independently as well as in collaboration with members of the research group, and have good communication skills.
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Trade union representatives

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To apply for the position

Log into KTH's recruitment system in order to apply for this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad.

The application must include:

• CV with a list of publications
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Cover letter including motivations for the applicant’s interest in the position.
• Brief description of the candidate’s research, including a research proposal.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, three years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

The position may include security-sensitive activities. To become authorized, you therefore need to pass a security check.

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

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About KTH

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world. Our research and education covers a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy. Read more here

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