PhD positions at Imperial College London on privacy and impact of algorithms on society (fully funded, deadline: Nov 1, 2020)
Our Computational Privacy Group at Imperial College London is offering fully funded PhD positions for 2021 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, privacy engineering solutions such as differential privacy and query-based systems, ethics and fairness in AI, and computational social science.
For full details, please consult https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/openings/
Deadline: Nov 1th 2020 (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 data science, statistics and/or machine learning is a plus.
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, in particular women, disabled, BAME, and LGBTQIA+ candidates.
About Imperial. Imperial College London, ranked 9th globally, is one of the top universities in the world. A full-time PhD at the South Kensington Campus takes 3-4 years, is fully funded and usually starts in October or January.