IACR News item: 29 February 2016
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Job Posting
The Cryptography Research Team at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (iitkgp.ac.in) invites strong PostDoc applications from highly motivated candidates working in the field of Cryptography. The candidate should be a PhD holder in Cryptography and/or related areas from a reputed institute. The candidate will be working in the Secured Embedded Architecture Laboratory http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/resgrp/seal with a group of PhD students and faculty focused in the area of secured system design. The research will be aimed at developing efficient cryptographic protocols with applications in emerging fields such as Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Knowledge in public key, pairings, functional encryption, multi-party computation, and post-quantum cryptography topics is desirable. The candidate should have excellent publication track record in IACR conferences/workshops, as well as top journals (such as IEEE/ACM Transactions or IACR journals).
The candidate will be expected to collaborate with and lead a team of excellent and highly motivated PhD candidates for implementation of the protocols. The protocols designed would be tested wrt. side channels by a separate team of research associates. The candidate is expected to work in conjunction with them and also disseminate the necessary knowledge among the group via suitable course material, tutorials and regular group talks. Good communication skills are hence desirable.
The post-doc position will be partially funded under Information Security Education and Awareness Project, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India. The candidate will be provided with a competitive salary (tax-free), along with highly subsidized housing, subsidized food in cafeteria, free healthcare at IIT hospital, travel support for international conferences, comprehensive funding for papers at top conferences like Crypto, performance based top up grants, and other perks and amenities.
The candidate will be expected to collaborate with and lead a team of excellent and highly motivated PhD candidates for implementation of the protocols. The protocols designed would be tested wrt. side channels by a separate team of research associates. The candidate is expected to work in conjunction with them and also disseminate the necessary knowledge among the group via suitable course material, tutorials and regular group talks. Good communication skills are hence desirable.
The post-doc position will be partially funded under Information Security Education and Awareness Project, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India. The candidate will be provided with a competitive salary (tax-free), along with highly subsidized housing, subsidized food in cafeteria, free healthcare at IIT hospital, travel support for international conferences, comprehensive funding for papers at top conferences like Crypto, performance based top up grants, and other perks and amenities.
Closing date for applications: 1 May 2016
Contact: Prof Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, debdeep.mukhopadhyay (at) gmail.com, debdeep (at) cse.iitkgp.ernet.in
More information: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/resgrp/seal
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