Job Title: Research Associate (Future IoT Security)
Department/School: School of Computing (BTIIC)
Campus: Belfast
Salary: £32,314 - £46,511 per annum
Duration: Fixed-term until 31st March 2028 / Full-time
Closing Date: 9th February 2025 at 23:30
Reference Number: 033443
- ABOUT US -
We are a university with a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and regional engagement, making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland.
Our core business activities are teaching and learning, widening access to education, research and innovation and technology and knowledge transfer.
- THE ROLE -
This post is funded by Invest NI / British Telecom (BT) under the BT Ireland Innovation Centre (BTIIC). The overall BTIIC centre addresses research topics in future telecommunication networks and services with a particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence for service provision and business processes in the general telecoms space and also more targeted areas in Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Security.
The post holder will work closely with BT Security Engineering to facilitate the down-streaming of BTIIC research into BT Engineering systems, services and products. They will work in collaboration with other Ulster, BT Research and BT Engineering members of the wider research team.
The work for this post will focus on the area of “identity management”, including research on the use of distributed ledger-based solutions (such as blockchain) in this domain. Our mission is to develop a robust, distributed ledger-based framework for managing IoT device identities and customer identities to increase the security of individuals and the smart environments within which they operate.
We may create a 12-month waiting list for the same or similar roles within the Department / Faculty. The University reserves the right to extend the waiting list across the University if required for certain posts.
- ABOUT YOU -
The postholder will be required to have:
- PhD (or near completion, i.e. thesis submitted) in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a cognate discipline, OR a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a cognate discipline, plus significant relevant industrial experience.
- Evidence of a high level of competence in object-oriented programming languages (such as C++, C#, Python and Java).
- Evidence of a working knowledge of the following: Modern identity management techniques; and Development of Distributed Ledger-based solutions.
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