Prof B Buchanan, Dr R Asif, Dr NIKOLAOS Pitropakis, Dr Z Jaroucheh
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Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
Blockpass and the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University have set up an Advanced Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL), which aims to support world-leading research related to cryptography, privacy-preserving machine learning and Blockchain, and their linkage to sovereign identity. It currently supports five PhD studentships, and due to successful commercialisation of its work, it aims to increase this number. The studentship offered is fully funded over three years, including fees and a stipend, and will investigate key areas of identity, privacy, trust/consent/delegation, and smart contracts. A key focus will be on areas such as privacy-preserving methods, trusted smart contracts, anonymized machine learning, and in the integration of trust, governance and consent around distributed models.
Academic qualifications
A first degree (at least a 2.1) ideally in Computer Science with a good fundamental knowledge of computer science and computer security.
English language requirement
IELTS score must be at least 6.5 (with not less than 6.0 in each of the four components). Other, equivalent qualifications will be accepted. Full details of the University’s policy are available online.
Essential attributes
• Experience of fundamental computer science areas, including a background in computer security.
• Competent in programming and software testing.
• Knowledge of computer security methods, including the fundamentals of cryptography.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Strong motivation, with evidence of independent research skills relevant to the project
• Good time management
Desirable attributes
A strong desire to build new trusted architectures, which integrate privacy and trust.
Funding Notes
This research project has funding attached. Applications for this project are welcome from suitably qualified candidates worldwide.
References
Camenisch, J., & Lehmann, A. (2017, April). Privacy-preserving user-auditable pseudonym systems. In 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) (pp. 269-284). IEEE.
Hari, A., & Lakshman, T. V. (2016, November). The internet blockchain: A distributed, tamper-resistant transaction framework for the internet. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (pp. 204-210). ACM.
Liang X, Shetty S, Tosh D, Kamhoua C, Kwiat K, Njilla L. Provchain: A blockchain-based data provenance architecture in cloud environment with enhanced privacy and availability. InProceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing 2017 May 14 (pp. 468-477). IEEE Press.
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