Netherlands : PhD Student Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science provides undergraduate and MSc programs in Mathematics and in Computer Science. The department has research collaborations with other departments at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) as well as with a large number of other universities and companies, both at home and abroad. The Department has approximately 350 employees and more than 700 students.

The chair Security of Embedded Systems (SEC), officially established on October 1, 2007, is already one the CS groups at the TU/e with the largest involvement in national and international programs. SEC, together with the cryptology group of the TU/e, forms the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems (EIPSI). SEC focuses on technical aspects of security and privacy for embedded systems without disregarding the non-technical aspects (e.g. social and legal issues). More information on SEC and EIPSI may be found at the group page at http://www.win.tue.nl/sec/.

Project description:

Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services (TAS³) is a European Integrated Project with 17 partners (among which: SAP Research, Oracle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), that will develop and implement an architecture with trusted services to manage and process distributed personal information. The personal information that will be processed and managed can consist of any type of information that is owned by or refers to people. The proposed architecture will be generic and cross-domain applicable. TAS3 will focus on an instantiation of this architecture in the employability and e-health sectors. The project will allow users and service providers in these two sectors to manage the lifelong generated personal employability and e-health information of the individuals involved. For example, in the employability sector, personal information includes the professional interests, current and previous job activities, and future employment objectives of a worker. Service providers will then be able to use this information to propose career paths that are compatible with the worker’s objectives. The healthcare sector is another domain in which the TAS3 architecture can be instantiated. In this case, the patient could be offered advanced services based on a number of personal health parameters (weight, body temperature, glucose level for diabetes patients, etc.).

Within the project the TU/e will mainly focus on the trust management aspect; how can users and/or services establish trust in a service. To this end different existing trust management frameworks will be combined and enhanced in innovative ways allowing use of both rule based trust policies, e.g. `I trust you if you are a certified physician’ and reputation based policies, e.g. ‘I trust you if you have a sufficiently good track record in the storage of medical information’. Another important research direction to be potentially addressed within the scope of this project is related to the end-to-end protection of personal data using policy enforcement and auditing mechanisms.

TASKS

As PhD student in the SEC group your tasks concern the following activities:

• Perform scientific research in the described domain;
• Assist staff in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the domain of the group;
• Present results on international conferences;
• Publish results in scientific journals;
• Supervise MSc students on topics related to your research;
• Participate in activities of the group and the department

We are looking for talented, enthusiastic candidate who meets the following requirements:

• A MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related field (at the time the candidate starts – Q1 or beginning of Q2 in 2010
• An interest in computer security and formal methods
• Knowledge of trust management and data protection mechanisms is a plus
• Ideally basic knowledge or some experience with formal methods for business process such as process algebra, Petri nets or model checking
• Good communicative skills in English, both written and oral.

We offer:

• a full-time contract for 4 years, with an intermediate evaluation after one year.
• A gross salary of €2042 per month in the first year, increasing to €2612 per month in the fourth year.
• Support for your personal development and career planning
• A broad package of fringe benefits (e.g. excellent technical infrastructure, child care, savings schemes, and excellent sports facilities).

More information can be obtained from:

• regarding your application: mrs P.J. Evers BC, personnel officer, phone +31-40-2472321, e-mail: pzwin@tue.nl

• regarding the project content: dr. J.I. den Hartog, phone +31-40-2472800, e-mail: j.d.hartog@tue.nl

Application

The application should consist of the following parts:

• a motivation letter;
• a Curriculum Vitae;
• copies of your diplomas together with the lists of grades, and other relevant certificates;
• names and addresses of two referees;
• proof of English language skills (if applicable).

Application Deadline : 28 February 2010

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Posted on 2010-02-17 09:16:03

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