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IACR News item: 18 April 2022

University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
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We are looking for a PhD student to join our group on reinforcement learning and decision making under uncertainty more generally, at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. We are looking for candidates with a strong research interest in the following fields:

  • Theory of differntial privacy.
  • Algorithms for differentially private machine learning.
  • Algorithms for fairness in machine learning.
  • Interactions between machine learning and game theory.
  • Inference of human models of fairness or privacy.

The main supervisor will be Chrsitos Dimitrakakis ( https://sites.google.com/site/christosdimitrakakis ) Past research of the group in differential privacy focused on the interaction between Bayesian inference and privacy, and on the derivation of regret bounds for privacy-constrained bandit problems. The student will also have the opportunity to visit and work with other group members at the University of Oslo, Norway and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Excellent technical skills in calculus, linear algebra, probability as well as competence in at least one programming language is expected. In addition,the doctoral student must have a strong background, as evidenced by their master thesis, in one of the following areas:

  • Privacy.
  • Theory of computation
  • Statistics.
  • Game theory.
  • Economics.
  • Fairness.
Application Information
  • Starting date 1 September 2022 or soon afterwards.
  • Application deadline 31 May 2022.
  • The PhD is funded, for 4 years, with 25% of the time as teaching assistant.
An application must include:
  • A statement of research interests.
  • A CV with a list of references.
  • Your MSc thesis (or a draft) or another research work demonstrating your academic writing.
  • Degree transcripts.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Christos Dimitrakakis

More information: https://sites.google.com/site/christosdimitrakakis/positions

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