Partial list of contact points for aspiring graduate students (and post-docs) in Computer Science/Engineering from US-banned countries.

Note: we would like to move the list of PhD/post-doc opps in CS created in the aftermath of the muslim ban to something more organized/permanent and on a better infrastructure (e.g., github). Any volunteers willing to run/maintain it? (If so, please let us know via email).

Below, organised by country, and then by name, please find a list of academics who are willing to act as a contact point to discuss opportunities in PhD and Masters programmes in Computer Science/Engineering. They may also be willing to discuss postdoc opportunities.

@academics: please provide brief details - area, country, name, institution, contact e-mail, areas of interest, any funding details to kenny.paterson@rhul.ac.uk or me@emilianodc.com and we will add them to the list (we’ve switched off public editing of the document now to protect existing entries).

@aspiring students: please do not spam contacts: use the information to start your research into alternatives to grad school and masters programmes in the US, and then to start conversations with selected contacts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS [Do not edit]

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Information Security & Cryptography

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Cyprus

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Hong Kong

India

Italy

Japan

Luxembourg

The Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Portugal

South Korea

Sweden

Spain

Switzerland

Singapore

United Kingdom (


UK)

Networks & Systems

Australia

Belgium

Germany/

Hong Kong

Italy

Japan

Netherlands

UK

FRANCE

Luxembourg

Spain

Data Science & Machine Learning

Australia

Austria

Canada

Cyprus

Denmark

Germany

Italy

Luxembourg

Spain

United Kingdom (UK)

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

Austria

Human Computer Interaction

Cyprus

United Kingdom (UK)

Wireless Communications

Germany

ITALY

Spain

Mobile Computing

FRANCE

Hong Kong

ITALY

Bioinformatics

Programming Languages

Software Engineering

Greece

Canada

Spain

Computer Games

United Kingdom (UK)

Computer Graphics

Austria

Network Science

ITALY

Information Security & Cryptography

Australia

Dali Kaafar

CSIRO Data61, Networks Group (Sydney)

Data Privacy, Network Security, Internet Measurement and Modeling

https://research.csiro.au/ng/about-us/people/dali-kaafar/

Dali.Kaafar@data61.csiro.au

Internships, PhD applications and current Openings for Data Privacy senior Researchers and Post-docs.  

Ralph Holz

University of Sydney and Data61

ralph.holz@sydney.edu.au

http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/people/ralph.holz.php

Internet and network security; empirical security; blockchains

Admission and scholarship details: https://sydney.edu.au/study/admissions/apply/entry-requirements/postgraduate-research.html

http://sydney.edu.au/scholarships/prospective/international_students.shtml

Toby Murray

University of Melbourne and Data61

toby.murray@unimelb.edu.au

http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/tobym/

Security and Formal Methods, Secure Programming

Scholarship information:

https://studenteforms.app.unimelb.edu.au/apex/f?p=153:2:0:::2:P2_ID:641

Research Degree information:

https://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/admissions/applications/research

Vanessa Teague

University of Melbourne

vjteaguevjteague@unimelb.edu.au

http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/

Applied cryptography, security and privacy, especially e-voting.

Scholarship information:

https://studenteforms.app.unimelb.edu.au/apex/f?p=153:2:0:::2:P2_ID:641

Research Degree information:

https://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/admissions/applications/research

Yuval Yarom

University of Adelaide

yval@cs.adelaide.edu.au

.adelaide.edu.http://wwwau/directory/yuval.yarom

Computer and Network Security. Cryptography (may require vetting by DFAT - see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/admission/apply-now/international/sanctions/)

Scholarship information: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/research-international/

Austria

Krzysztof Pietrzak

Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria

http://pub.ist.ac.at/crypto/

pietrzak@ist.ac.at

Stephan Krenn

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

http://ait.ac.at 

stephan.krenn@ait.ac.at

Research and implementation in applied cryptography & privacy

Edgar Weippl

SBA Research / Vienna University of Technology / University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten

https://www.sba-research.org/ 

eweippl@sba-research.org 

René Mayrhofer

Johannes Kepler University Linz

https://ins.jku.at

rm@ins.jku.at 

Computer security with a focus on cryptographic protocols and secure code/systems design; special topics include usable authentication, mobile device security, and digital identity

Note: We do not have any open funded staff positions or scholarships at this time (new funding may become available in 2018, and we will update this note if it does). Johannes Kepler University Linz is open to PhD students, but at the moment students would have to be self-funded. Such self-funding would need to cover 3-5 years of tuition (depending on the student’s nationality and other conditions, see http://www.jku.at/content/e262/e256786/e233509/e249123?showlang=eng) and living expenses in Linz, Austria (price levels are comparable to other major central European cities).

Christian Rechberger

Graz University of Technology

https://iaik.tugraz.at

christian.rechberger@tugraz.at 

Belgium 

Olivier Pereira, François-Xavier Standaert

Université catholique de Louvain (Crypto Group)

http://www.uclouvain.be/crypto/

http://www.uclouvain.be/crypto/jobs/

olivier.pereira@uclouvain.be, fstandae@uclouvain.be 

Bart Preneel, Seda Gürses, Claudia Diaz, Ingrid Verbauwhede

University of Leuven (COSIC)

Applied crypto, hardware security, privacy research

https://www.esat.kuleuven.be//cosic/

seda@esat.kuleuven.be , jobs-cosic@esat.kuleuven.be

Brazil

Jean Martina

Ricardo Custódio

Computer Security Lab

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florianópolis -SC

Digital Signatures, Finite Fields and Applications, Security Protocols, Formal Methods Applied to Security, IoT Security, Usable security.

http://jeanmartina.paginas.ufsc.br/

http://www.labsec.ufsc.br/

We are welcoming applications for PhDs in the areas above. Funding opportunities can be assessed on project basis (industry or locally funded by the university). We have cooperations in place and joint international projects with Canada, Luxembourg, USA, Italy and UK where some students could work and spend time on.

Brazil’s government has a program of scholarships for international students called PEC-PG. The call usually opens in October and scholarships are awarded to start in March the following year. This call is only available for student from developing countries. Last applicants manual availabe at: http://www.capes.gov.br/images/stories/download/editais/07102016-Manual-CAPES-PEC-PG.pdf

Diego F. Aranha, Ricardo Dahab, Julio López

Institute of Computing - University of Campinas

Research in electronic voting, cryptographic protocols, efficient hardware/software implementations and side-channel attacks (Cryptographic Engineering)

http://www.lasca.ic.unicamp.br/site/

Canada

Carlisle Adams

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

cadams@uottawa.ca

http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/~cadams/ 

Computer and network security, cryptography, access control, privacy enhancing technologies

Jonathan Anderson

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada

Computer security, operating systems, compiler-based security transformation

jonathan.anderson@mun.ca

https://www.engr.mun.ca/~anderson/

Ken Barker

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

T2N 1N4

kbarker@ucalgary.ca

www.ucalgary.ca/kbarker 

Data privacy, privacy enhancing technologies, sensor security, block-chain

Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov

University of British Columbia

beznosov@ece.ubc.ca

http://konstantin.beznosov.net/professional/ 

Usable privacy and security, computer and software systems security

 

Jeremy Clark

Concordia University, Montreal

j.clark@concordia.ca

@PulpSpy

https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca

http://vaddr.space

Applied crypto, voting, bitcoin, pki

 

Aleksander Essex

Western Information Security and Privacy Research Lab

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Western University, London, ON

aessex@uwo.ca

http://essex.cc

https://whisperlab.org

Applied crypto, trustworthy voting, secure health informatics

Philip W. L. Fong

Department of Computer Science

University of Calgary, Alberta

pwlfong@ucalgary.ca

http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~pwlfong

Access control, security and privacy for the Internet of Things, protection technologies for social media

Ian Goldberg, Sergey Gorbunov, Urs Hengartner, Florian Kerschbaum, Ian McKillop and Doug Stinson

Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

crysp@cs.uwaterloo.ca

https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/future-graduate-students/applying-admissions#app_procedures

Michael Jacobson, Jr.

Department of Computer Science

University of Calgary, Alberta

jacobs@ucalgary.ca

http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jacobs

Public-key cryptography, computational number theory

Mohammad Mannan, Madiba Security Research Group

Concordia University, Montreal

m.mannan@concordia.ca

Group: https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca

Web: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/

Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan,

Information Technology Management, Ryerson University

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://www.ryerson.ca/itm/faculty/atefeh-mashatan/

amashatan@ryerson.ca

Cryptography, Security of Internet-of-Things, Information Technology Security Management

Ashraf Matrawy

Carleton University, School of Information Technology

http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~amatrawy/

Network security

Paul C. van Oorschot

Carleton University-School of Computer Science

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/ 

Authentication, computer security, Internet security

Rei Safavi-Naini

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Cryptography,  information security, communication security.

Position for postdocs and graduate students. Contact details:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~rei/

Douglas Stebila

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Cryptography

https://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~stebilad/

Amr Youssef

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Cryptography and cryptanalysis

youssef@ciise.concordia.ca

https://users.encs.

concordia.ca/~youssef/

Ali Miri

Computer and Information Security Lab (iCaSL)

Ryerson University

Toronto, Ontario, Ontario

http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~samiri

Applied cryptography, Cloud computing, Big data and machine learning, IoT

Chile

Ahmed Elmesiry

Department of Electronics Engineering

Federico Santa María Technical University

Valparaíso, Valparaiso Region, Chile

https://goo.gl/dbk3vv

Applied cryptography, Cloud computing, computer security, Internet security, security and privacy for the Internet of Things

Scholarship information:

The main step is to be accepted in the post graduation program from the Electronic Engineering Department. Please, contact DGIP for further details [DGIP offers grants]. Additionally, CONICYT offers funding opportunities every year. Usually, the call starts on november and the results are published in march

Cyprus

Michael Sirivianos

Cyprus University of Technology

Limassol, Cyprus

https://www.cut.ac.cy/eecei/staff/michael.sirivianos/ 

michael.sirivianos@gmail.com

Social network security and privacy, device-centric and attribute-based authentication, web data privacy and online discrimination, trustworthy distributed systems.

EU-funded PhD and post-doc positions. (www.recred.eu, encase.socialcomputing.eu)

MSc in Data Science and Engineering

Denmark

Hackerspaces

Talk to the people at the https://labitat.dk/ hackerspace, either using their mailing list or IRC.

Claudio Orlandi

Aarhus University

Aarhus, Denmark

http://cs.au.dk/~orlandi/

Cryptographic protocols (MPC, ZK), foundations of cryptography etc. PhD and postdocs enquiries are welcome.

Lars R. Knudsen

Technical University of Denmark

Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

DTU Compute, Cyber Security

Estonia

Helger Lipmaa

University of Tartu

Tartu, Estonia

http://www.ut.ee/~lipmaa

Cryptographic protocols, zero knowledge, mixnets, e-voting. Especially postdoc enquiries are welcome, but PhD enquiries will be considered too.

Marlon Dumas

Software Engineering & Information Systems Group

University of Tartu, Estonia

http://www.ut.ee/~dumas and http://sep.cs.ut.ee 

Four PhD positions available in 2017 in the fields of business process management, process mining, privacy and security aspects of business processes.

Postdoc enquiries are also very welcome from recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates with a background in information systems engineering or in applied data mining.

Finland

N. Asokan

Secure Systems Group

Aalto University

asokan@acm.org  

Web: http://asokan.org/asokan/, https://twitter.com/nasokan

Systems security (including mobile platform security, machine learning for security, blockchains & consensus, cloud security, ...). Postdoc enquiries welcome, too.

Relevant links: Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security, HIIT, Secure Systems group 

Kimmo Halunen

Cyber security team

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

kimmo.halunen@vtt.fi

Relevant links: http://www.vttresearch.com/services/digital-society/cyber-security

Currently three internships open (2 in Oulu and 1 in Espoo).

VTT has also a wide range of other technical research topics beyond security (check http://www.vttresearch.com for more information)

France

Luca De Feo

Université de Versailles, Versailles

Inria Saclay, Palaiseau

(Paris region)

luca.de-feo@uvsq.fr

Group: http://lmv.math.cnrs.fr/teams/crypto/

Group: https://team.inria.fr/grace/

Web: http://defeo.lu/

Harry Halpin, Nadim Kobeissi

INRIA Paris

harry.halpin@inria.fr, nadim.kobeissi@inria.fr

Group: http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/

Internships and possible Ph.D. studies and post-docs. Applied cryptography, formal verification, symbolic and computational protocol modeling and verification.

Nataliia Bielova

Inria of Sophia Antipolis (Nice)

nataliia.bielova@inria.fr

Group: https://team.inria.fr/indes/job-offers/

Web: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nataliia.Bielova/

Internships and possible PhD/postdocs in Web privacy measurements and security

Olivier Blazy

Université de Limoges

olivier.blazy@unilim.fr

Group : http://www.xlim.fr/en/dmi/information-protection-cryptography-and-coding

Web: http://www.blazy.eu

Public Key Cryptography (Protocol design / Implementations)
Internships / Ph.D. / PostDoc positions funded on French grants

Master program: www.cryptis.fr (B2 lvl in french required)

Clément Pernet

Université Grenoble Alpes,

Grenoble.

clement.pernet@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Web: http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Clement.Pernet/

Group: http://ljk.imag.fr/CASYS/

Computational mathematics, fault tolerance, and verification protocols

Master program on Crypto and cybersecurity in Grenoble: http://cybersecurity.imag.fr/

Kavé Salamatian

Université de Savoie, Grenoble-Alpes

Annecy, France

kave.salamatian@univ-savoie.fr

Networking, social network analysis, cybersecurity

Christos Dimitrakakis

christos.dimitrakakis@gmail.com

University of Lille 3, INRIA-Lille

Differential privacy, machine learning, reinforcement learning. security applications

More info and contact: https://sites.google.com/site/christosdimitrakakis/

Fabrizio Biondi

CentraleSupeléc / IRISA Rennes

Information leakage, malware analysis, vulnerability detection, cryptography, unconditional cryptography, hardware vulnerabilities, symbolic execution

More info and contacts: http://people.rennes.inria.fr/Fabrizio.Biondi/

Axel Legay

Team Leader - TAMIS team, Inria Rennes

Any security-related subject, model checking, statistical model checking, formal methods, product lines, attack trees, et al.

Team page: https://team.inria.fr/tamis/

Email: axel DOT legay AT inria DOT fr

Christian Grothoff

TAMIS team, Inria Rennes

Privacy-preserving protocols, decentralization, electronic payments, building secure systems

E-mail: christian.grothoff@inria.fr

More info: http://grothoff.org/christian/

Benjamin Smith

GRACE team, INRIA Saclay and École polytechnique (Paris region)

http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~smith

Public-key cryptography, computational number theory

Davide Frey

ASAP Team, Inria Rennes

Privacy Preserving decentralized data analytics

e-mail : davide.frey@inria.fr

More info: https://www.irisa.fr/asap/

Aurélien Francillon

Systems Security, Embedded Systems security

Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis (Close to Nice)

email:aurelien.francillon@eurecom.fr

More info:http://www.s3.eurecom.fr/~aurel/

Germany

Chris Brzuska

brzuska@tuhh.de 

TU Hamburg

Chair for IT Security Analysis

Topics that we are interested in:

  • Foundations of cryptography (and other selected topics in theoretical CS)
  • Analyzing Standards of cryptographic protocols, e.g., EMV, TLS, messaging
  • Formal verification of protocols
  • Integrating secure hardware into secure systems (close cooperation with NXP semi-conductors)

www.chrisbrzuska.de

Most of our courses are in English:

https://www.tuhh.de/alt/tuhh/education.html

Thomas Eisenbarth

thomas.eisenbarth@uni-luebeck.de 

University of Lübeck, Germany

its.uni-luebeck.de

Applied Cryptography and System Security

University of Lübeck has several institutes covering all areas of

theoretical and applied Computer Science: http://bit.ly/2h0bzWH

Tim Güneysu

tim.gueneysu@uni-bremen.de

Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science

University of Bremen, Germany

Topics: Embedded and System Security

Tibor Jager

tibor.jager@upb.de 

Paderborn University, Germany

Theoretical and applied crypto

Institute of CS of Paderborn U covers all areas of applied and theoretical CS

Dominique Schröder

dosc@cs.fau.de

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Chair for Applied Cryptography

Nuremberg Campus of Technology

Fürther Str 246c / Eingang 5 / 2. OG

90429 Nürnberg

https://www13.cs.fau.de

Topics: We’re broadly interested in topics around theoretical and applied crypto (we are not working on cryptoanalysis, number theory, block ciphers)

Ruhr-University Bochum (HGI) also has a number of open positions in IT Security, see

https://hgi.rub.de/hgi/Institut/struktur/

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 

For Master Students:

The university of Bonn offers an english Masters degree in Computer Science including a number of security courses.

https://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/en/for-students/master-of-science-in-computer-science?set_language=en

For PhDs:

Matthew Smith,

  • Usable Security and Privacy
  • Malware Analysis

Please include your current US supervisor in CC when contacting smith@cs.uni-bonn.de

 

TU Darmstadt has a number of open PhD positions in IT Security, see

https://www.cysec.tu-darmstadt.de/de/cysec/jobs/ 

It also offers M.Sc. programs in IT Security and other CS topics. See

https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/en/students/study-programmes/ 

TU Dresden frequently offers positions in groups working on

Privacy and IT Security (Strufe, please note)

Physical Layer Security (Jorswieck)

Dependability (Fetzer)

CISPA - Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability

https://cispa.saarland

Saarland Informatics Campus

Campus E9 1

66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Research Areas:

  • Cryptography
  • Information Retrieval and Machine Learning
  • Programming Language Principles and Verification
  • Societal and Legal Concepts
  • Software Security
  • System Design Principles
  • Threat Analysis & Modeling
  • Usable Privacy & Security

We have open positions at core CISPA (https://cispa.saarland/education/careers/) and our collaborative research center on "Methods and Tools for Understanding and Controlling Privacy" (https://privacy-sfb.cispa.saarland/).


Please include your current US supervisor in CC when contacting us.

Hong Kong

Sherman S.M. Chow

smchow@ie.cuhk.edu.hk

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Applied Cryptography

http://staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~smchow

HK PhD Fellowship (https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs) / Department Support / My Research Grant

(All our courses are in English)

India

Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran

mp@cse.iitb.ac.in

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Cryptography

http://mmp.cs.illinois.edu/research.html

Dr. Arpita Patra

arpita@csa.iisc.ernet.in

Indian Institute of Science

Cryptography and Secure Distributed Computing

http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~arpita/

Dr. Shweta Agrawal

shweta@iitm.ac.in

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Cryptography

http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~shwetaag/

Dr. Somitra Sanadhya

somitra@iiitd.ac.in 

IIIT Delhi

Cryptography (Symmetric ciphers, cryptanalysis, applied cryptography)

https://sites.google.com/a/iiitd.ac.in/somitra/home 

Dr. Souradyuti Paul

souradyutip@iitgn.ac.in, souradyuti.paul@gmail.com

IIT Gandhinagar

Cryptography

https://sites.google.com/a/iitgn.ac.in/souradyuti-paul/

Prof C. Pandu Rangan

department of computer science and engg,

IIT, MADRAS, CHENNAI

INDIA - 600036.

Cryptography, provable security, post quantum cryptography, leakage- resilience Crypto

prangan55@gmail.com

Sanjit Chatterjee

sanjit@csa.iisc.ernet.in

Indian Institute of Science

Applied Cryptography and Information Security

http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~sanjit

Italy

Marco Mellia

mellia@polito.it

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

The group is currently focusing on Big Data and Data Science topics, considering both fundamental problems, i.e., scalability of parallel algorithms in mapreduce/spark/streaming processing, and applications to different domains, from Internet Traffic analysis for malware detection, to applications for customer segmentation, from predictive maintenance of large and distributed systems, to pattern and anomaly detection.

More information can be found at

http://bigdata.polito.it 

And more information about the PhD program is available at

http://dottorato.polito.it/en/admission 

Stefano Zanero

Stefano.zanero@polimi.it

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

My group performs research on cybersecurity areas such as cyber physical systems security, malware analysis, fraud and anomaly detection. We have funding for temporary positions in most areas. Other groups work on applied cryptography and other security areas.

Polimi offers degrees in engineering at all levels, and welcomes foreign students with low tuition and special scholarships.

Bruno Crispo, Fabio Massacci

University of Trento, Italy

The group current interest are in malware analysis, mobile and biometrics (Bruno), malware and vulnerability analysis, empirical risk assessment, security requirements engineering and security economics (Fabio), other groups works on security testing (Paolo Tonella at nearby FBK) and formal methods (Silvio Ranise again at FBK). We do have three-years fellowships for most positions but we typically ask wanna-be phd students to come for a 6-months internship.

More technical information on the group (as well as students) can be found here

-- http://securitylab.disi.unitn.it/doku.php

And more general information on the international PhD programme can be found here

-- http://ict.unitn.it/ 

Elena Ferrari

elena.ferrari@uninsubria.it

University of Insubria, Italy

StrictSociaLab activities are mainly in the field of data security, privacy and trust. Main application domains are currently Big Data, Iot, NoSQL Databases, Cloud and Social Networks. We offer Phd fellowships for our 3 years Phd programme in Computer Science as well as Post-Doc positions.

More information on our research activities can be found at:

-- http://dawsec.dicom.uninsubria.it/elena.ferrari/

--- http://strict.dista.uninsubria.it/

Andrea Lanzi,

andrea.lanzi@unimi.it

University of Milan, Italy

My research group is working on several research security area. More in particular our research deals with Host Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS), memory error exploits, reverse engineering, malware and forensic analysis. In recent years we’ve mainly studied the application of emulation/virtualization and compiler techniques for malware analysis and detection. In addition we’ve been working on analyzing large-scale security datasets (e.g., Anubis malware collection) to investigate the behavior of current cyber threats. We are open for any internship and Ph.D application.

More information about our research group:

-- http://security.di.unimi.it/ 

Japan

Prof. Youki Kadobayashi

youki-k@is.aist-nara.ac.jp 

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Internet engineering, web security, cybersecurity education, cybersecurity standards

https://iplab.naist.jp/member/youki/ 

Prof. Jun Murai

junsec@wide.ad.jp

Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus

Internet, security, IoT, IT policy

https://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/IRL/ 

Yoichi Shinoda

shinoda@jaist.ac.jp

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Security, Internet traffic analysis, mobile networking, network testbeds

https://shinoda-www.jaist.ac.jp/ 

Prof. Hideki Sunahara

suna@wide.ad.jp

Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design

Security, mobile communication, sensor networks, networked knowledge construction

http://www.kmd.keio.ac.jp/en/experience/faculty/sunahara.html 

Assoc. Prof. Rodney Van Meter

rdv@sfc.wide.ad.jp 

Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus

Quantum networking, quantum computer architecture

http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~rdv/

Luxembourg

Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel

admin-engel@uni.lu

University of Luxembourg, SECAN-Lab

Security and Networking Lab

Web: https://secan-lab.uni.lu

Peter Y A Ryan

peter.ryan@uni.lu

University of Luxembourg and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Trust,

APSIA Research Group:

http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/apsia

Dr. Radu State (senior researcher)

radu.state@uni.lu

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, SEDAN group

IDS, Authentication, Security in/for Data Science Applications

http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sedan 

The Netherlands

Tanja Lange tanja@hyperelliptic.org

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e)

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/mathematics-and-computer-science/

We offer a program in IT/Cyber security for Master students:  https://true-security.nl/ 

together with Radboud University Nijmegen. Sadly enough there are only very few stipends.

Industrial and Applied  Mathematics has a  Discrete Mathematics and Applications track that also covers a lot of cryptography. Same stipend situation https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/mathematics-and-computer-science/education/graduate-programs/masters-programs/industrial-and-applied-mathematics/

Open PhD positions at TU/e are advertised on the IACR job page.

Peter Schwabe peter@cryptojedi.org

Digital Security Group, Radboud University

We offer a program in IT/Cyber security for Master students: https://true-security.nl/

together with Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e).

Open Ph.D. positions in Cryptography are advertised on the IACR job page.

Jaap-Henk Hoepman jhh@cs.ru.nl

Digital Security Group, Radboud University

We offer PhD and postdoc positions in the area of Privacy by Design, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Applied cryptography.

Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida

VUSec Lab - Systems and Network Security

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam

Christian Schaffner, c.schaffner@uva.nl

University of Amsterdam - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

QuSoft, Research Center for Quantum Software

Currently looking for Postdoc candidate

Karst Koymans K.Koymans@uva.nl

Master programme in Security/System Engineering and Networking

OS3/UvA website

Admission information SNE master (info@os3.nl)

SNE is the University of Amsterdam top rated master education in System/Security and Network Engineering. We focus on Open Standards, Open Software and Open Security, hence the name OS3.

University of Twente

Master program: Cyber Security

We are also participating in the EIT Digital Master on Security & Privacy (see also scholarships)

Andreas Peter a.peter@utwente.nl

University of Twente

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Cryptographic Protocol Design and Analysis, Application and Theory of Functional and Homomorphic Encryption

http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~petera/

Delft University of Technology

Prof.dr.ir. Pieter Hartel Pieter.Hartel@tudelft.nl

Applied cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, computing encrypted data, network security, data analytics for cyber security. More information: http://cys.ewi.tudelft.nl

 

New Zealand

Steven Galbraith  s.galbraith@auckland.ac.nz

Mathematics Department, University of Auckland.

My group works mostly on the mathematics of public key cryptography and post-quantum cryptography.

Rizwan Asghar 

r.asghar@auckland.ac.nz 

Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland

Research Interests: Access Control, Applied Cryptography, Security and Privacy.

Homepage: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~asghar/ 

Giovanni Russello

g.russello@auckland.ac.nz

Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland

Research Interests: Android Security, Privacy in the Cloud, IoT Security, Obfuscation..

Homepage: https://cs.auckland.ac.nz/~russello/

Norway

Colin Boyd colin.boyd@ntnu.no

Applied Crypto Group, Department of Information Security and Communications Technology,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Our new department spans Trondheim and Gjøvik and covers a broad range of information security topics. Vacancies are advertised in the department: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik, and also across all of NTNU: http://www.ntnu.edu/vacancies.

simula@uib

Portugal

Manuel Barbosa mbb@dcc.fc.up.pt

HASLab - INESC TEC & Faculty of Science - University of Porto.

Our group works mostly on bridging the theoretical and practical views of cryptographic security; this includes provable security and efficient implementation of crypto, as well as the formal verification approach to both. Positions in these and other areas of research are advertised via our institutional website at www.inesctec.pt.

South Korea

Hyoungshick Kim hyoung@skku.edu

Department of Software, Sungkyunkwan University.

Research Interests: Usable Security, User Authentication, Software Security

See our website: http://seclab.skku.edu/ 

Sweden

Panos Papadimitratos, papadim@kth.se

Networked Systems Security (NSS) Group (www.ee.kth.se/nss)

What we are after is to make current and upcoming networked systems trustworthy, shielding them and their users from attacks and abuse. Our research agenda includes a gamut of security and privacy problems, with emphasis on wireless and mobile systems. We have a strong systems character, implementing and evaluating our solutions. At the same time, we pay close attention to theoretical methods, including, notably, formal protocol analysis and information-theoretic results. We are part of the School of Electrical Engineering at KTH and we are affiliated with the ACCESS and the ICES centers

Currently open positions for postdocs:

Openings at NSS (deadline: Feb. 15, 2017) as described here: https://lnkd.in/en8bDtB 

A broader call, including security (deadline: January 31, 2017), in the context of ACCESS, as described here: https://lnkd.in/eW2DsJ2.

Katerina Mitrokotsa

aikmitr@chalmers.se

Chalmers University of Technology

All aspects of information security, privacy and cryptography, especially applied crypto.

More info and contact: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aikmitr/Group.html

Christos Dimitrakakis

christos.dimitrakakis@gmail.com

Chalmers University of Technology

Differential privacy, machine learning, reinforcement learning. security applications

More info and contact: https://sites.google.com/site/christosdimitrakakis/

Pablo Picazo-Sanchez, Gerardo Schneider

Chalmers University of Technology

Security and Privacy in IoT and eHealth. Malware detection.

pablop@chalmers.se

gersch@chalmers.se

Spain

Dario Fiore, Boris Köpf, Carmela Troncoso

dario.fiore@imdea.org 

boris.koepf@imdea.org

carmela.troncoso@imdea.org

IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid

http://software.imdea.org 

Cryptography (theoretical and applied: protocols, provable security),

Formal Methods and program analysis for security, side-channel attacks

Privacy, anonymity

Postdoc and PhD positions currently available: https://software.imdea.org/open_positions/call_for_postdocs.html 

Dr. Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez (research assistant professor)

narseo.vallina@imdea.org

IMDEA Networks Institute and ICSI-Berkeley

Internet measurements, privacy and security. Focus on mobile and IoT.

PhD positions available.

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~narseo_vallina/

Switzerland

Jean-Philippe Aumasson

Kudelski Security, Global Research team

We co-supervise semester projects and masters theses jointly with EPFL or HEIG-VD

Topics: applied crypto, secure communications, vulnerability research, reverse engineering

https://research.kudelskisecurity.com 

jp.aumasson@kudelskisecurity.com 

@veorq on Twitter, Wire

Bryan Ford

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Decentralized and Distributed Systems Laboratory (DEDIS)

http://dedis.epfl.ch/

dedis@epfl.ch

Topics: large scale decentralized crypto/security protocols, anonymous communication systems, blockchain technology & cryptocurrencies, e-voting systems

We are always looking for motivated interns, PhD students, postdocs, or software engineers. More details on the EPFL’s PhD program: http://phd.epfl.ch/edic

Serge Vaudenay

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Cryptographic algorithms and protocols, cryptanalysis, privacy

http://lasec.epfl.ch/

Singapore

Khin Mi Mi Aung

Data Center Technologies (DCT), Data Storage Institute, A*STAR Singapore

Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Blockchain

https://www.a-star.edu.sg/singa-award/

mi_mi_aung@dsi.a-star.edu.sg

Roland Yap

School of Computing, National University of Singapore

Android, Isolation/Sandboxing, Malware, Memory Safety, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Social Networks

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ryap

ryap@comp.nus.edu.sg

United Kingdom (UK)

Martin Albrecht, Carlos Cid, Kenny Paterson

martin.albrecht@royalholloway.ac.uk / kenny.paterson@rhul.ac.uk / carlos.cid@rhul.ac.uk 

Information Security Group

Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

All areas of cryptography and information security, especially applied crypto; post-quantum cryptography; computational mathematics; symmetric crypto; security economics.

We have funding for at least one talented international student per year through our Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security (https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/isg/cybersecuritycdt/home.aspx).

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/isg/home.aspx 

Alastair Beresford

University of Cambridge, UK

arb33@cam.ac.uk

Mobile device security and privacy. Also, one of the faculty working at the cambridgecybercrime.uk centre.

Eerke Boiten

E.A.Boiten@kent.ac.uk

Currently University of Kent, UK - areas there include IoT, cyber crime, steganography, malware, reverse engineering. www.cyber.kent.ac.uk

GCHQ provisionally accredited MSc degree at Kent: c

Eerke is moving to De Montfort University UK from 1 April: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/technology/cyber-technology-institute/cti-home.aspx

MSc degree with substantive industry input: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-courses/cyber-security/cyber-security-msc-degree.aspx

Personal interests: formal methods applied to security and cryptography; data privacy.

Lorenzo Cavallaro

Lorenzo.Cavallaro@rhul.ac.uk

Systems Security Research Lab @ Information Security Group (ISG)

Royal Holloway University of London, UK

The Systems Security Research Lab (http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk) focuses on devising novel techniques to protect systems from a broad range of threats, including those perpetrated by malicious software. The underlying theme of research builds on program analysis and machine learning to address such threats. We regularly host visiting scholars and interns and we currently have two PostDoc openings for two years (MobSec Project, http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk/projects/mobsec/) and one opening for a PhD student starting in Sep/Oct---positions to be officially opened soon; feel free drop me a line for further information. In addition, full funding (stipend and fees) for at least one strong international PhD student per year (https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/isg/cybersecuritycdt/home.aspx). The ISG at Royal Holloway also offers a well-established and renown MSc in Information Security and welcome students from all over the globe.

Cas Cremers

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbruecken, Germany.

Formal methods, applied cryptography, automated analysis & tool development, protocol analysis, and standardisation.
cremers@cispa.de - https://cispa.saarland/group/cremers/index.html

CISPA is home to many security researchers, and has a general application website, and has open positions at all levels. It is advised to check the individual researchers first, which helps to make a concrete connection in your application.

Professor Erol Gelenbe FIEEE FACM

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Imperial College

London SW7 2AZ

e.gelenbe@imperial.ac.uk

Interest: Security, Energy and QoS in Clouds and Networks

Tom Chothia, Flavio Garcia, David Oswald

University of Birmingham Security and Privacy group - http://sec.cs.bham.ac.uk

PhD opportunities in applied crypto, embedded systems, formal methods, design of secure systems, analysis of systems.

T.Chothia@cs.bham.ac.uk

d.f.oswald@cs.bham.ac.uk

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~garciaf

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~oswalddf

Details of masters course: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/taught/computer-science/cyber-security.aspx

Emiliano De Cristofaro, Steven Murdoch, Jens Groth, Gianluca Stringhini, Sarah Meiklejohn, George Danezis

University College, London, UK

Cryptography, privacy, network security, systems security, malware, cybercrime

Contacts at: http://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/

(Specifically, Sarah has two positions for PhD students available starting in May, and funding for a postdoc and several interns.  Contact details at: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Meiklejohn/. Gianluca has funding for a PhD student starting in October and for an intern. Contact details at: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Stringhini/)

Feng Hao, Thomas Gross and Changyu Dong

Newcastle University, UK

Applied cryptography, security policies, e-voting, blockchain.

Contacts at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/research/groups/srs/#staff

Mike Just

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Applied cryptography, network security, usable security

m.just@hw.ac.uk

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/staff-directory/mike-just.htm 

Aggelos Kiayias

aggelos.kiayias@ed.ac.uk

University of Edinburgh, UK

All aspects of cryptography, information security. More contacts, info

http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/security-privacy

Markus Kuhn

University of Cambridge, UK

Hardware and signal-processing aspects of security, tamper resistant hardware, secure computer architectures, mobile-device security, payment systems

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/

Shujun Li

hooklee@gmail.com / Shujun.Li@surrey.ac.uk 

University of Surrey, UK

Human factors (usability, cyber security awareness and education, cognitive modelling, etc.), privacy, user authentication (especially passwords), mobile security, network security (especially IDS), security visualization, CAPTCHA, multimedia security, information hiding (steganography and digital watermarking), digital forensics and cybercrime

http://www.hooklee.com/default.asp?t=Research 

http://www.hooklee.com/default.asp?t=Research%20Opportunities 

Ben Livshits

Imperial college London, U.K.

Security, privacy, program analysis, browsers, mobile apps

Looking for Ph.D.s and postdocs

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~livshits/

Mark Manulis

University of Surrey, UK

Applied cryptography, privacy, network security, system security

http://manulis.eu 

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

deMontjoye@imperial.ac.uk

Imperial College London, Data Science Institute, UK

All area of privacy, fairness in machine learning, and information security. For instance, formal properties and metrics of privacy and fairness in algorithmic decision-making or the development of privacy-enhancing data processing systems.

For PhD or Post-docs

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ydemontj/

a.sampson@abertay.ac.uk

Security Research Group, Abertay University, Dundee, UK

Ethical hacking, digital forensics, usable security, Internet of Things security, secure software engineering, PLDI for security. We offer PhDs and Masters by Research, with a few funded places each year; please get in touch with us to discuss potential supervisors and areas of interest.

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/discover/academic-schools/arts-media-computer-games/computingandmathematics/

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate-research-degrees/

Nigel Smart, Elisabeth Oswald, Dan Page, Bogdan Warinschi, Martijn Stam

nigel@cs.bris.ac.uk

University of Bristol UK

Practical application and implementations of Multi Party Computation, side-channel analysis, secure/fast crypto implementations, provable security, protocol analysis

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/CryptographySecurity/

Also interested in Post-Docs wanting positions

Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS)

University of Surrey, UK

Security Through Hardware, Trusted Computing, Privacy and Authentication, Secure Communications, Multimedia Security and Forensics, and Human Factors

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/surrey-centre-cyber-security/research 

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/department-computer-science/study/postgraduate-research/funding (all PhD scholarships available for Surrey’s Deparment of Computer Science, covering Cyber Security as a major area)

George Theodorakopoulos

Cardiff University

http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/G.Theodorakopoulos/

TheodorakopoulosG@cardiff.ac.uk 

Privacy, trust, and security in mobile networks and IoT devices

Luca Viganò

luca.vigano@kcl.ac.uk

King’s College London, UK

Formal methods for security, security protocols, web applications, privacy

Joss Wright

joss.wright@oii.ox.ac.uk

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/joss-wright/

Oxford Internet Institute / Cybersecurity Doctoral Training Centre

University of Oxford, UK

Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, London.

Interdisciplinary analysis of information controls, filtering, and censorship. Privacy and privacy-enhancing technologies.

Details of relevant courses (social science and computer science):

OII MSc Social Science of the Internet: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/msc/

Oxford Cybersecurity Doctoral Training Centre: https://www.cybersecurity.ox.ac.uk/education/cdt

Shishir Nagaraja

s.nagaraja@lancaster.ac.uk

Security Lancaster and Lancaster University

Open positions for doctoral and post-doctoral research in Network Security and Privacy.

Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos

k.kyriakopoulos@lboro.ac.uk

Loughborough University

Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering,

Signal Processing and Networks Group

Research areas: Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Software Defined Networks, IoT, Network security in Connected Vehicles, Practical attacks, detection and mitigation. Contact me for more information. Currently there is a PhD opportunity.

Siamak F. Shahandashti

University of York, UK

siamak.shahandashti@york.ac.uk

Homepage: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~siamak

Areas of interest: Applied cryptography, Information security and privacy, E-Voting, Blockchain, Usable security

Funding: University and departmental funding possibilities for PhD students

Networks & Systems

Australia

Dali Kaafar

CSIRO Data61, Networks Group

Internet Measurement, Performance modeling, Privacy, Networks and Systems Security

https://research.csiro.au/ng/about-us/people/dali-kaafar/

Dali.Kaafar@data61.csiro.au

Internships, PhD applications and current Openings for Data Privacy senior Researchers and Post-docs.

Belgium

Benoit Donnet

Montefiore Institute: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Université de Liège

Email: benoit.donnet@ulg.ac.be

http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/personnel.php?op=detail&id=1077

Network Measurements and Modeling, Middleboxes, Network Architecture

Germany

Xiaoming Fu

Institute of Computer Science

University of Goettingen

Email: fuATcs.uni-goettingen.de

http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu

Networked systems, protocols and applications, including

Lin Wang

TU Darmstadt

wang@tk.tu-darmstadt.de

https://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/de/people/lin-wang/

Networked systems, edge-centric computing, discrete optimization

Hong Kong

Pan Hui

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  

Email: panhuiATcse.ust.hk

http://www.cse.ust.hk/~panhui/

system aspect of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) and AR content generation, mobile computing, urban computing, and other interesting topics related to social network

Italy

Marco Ajmone Marsan

Electronics and Telecommunications Department

Politecnico di Torino

Email: marco.ajmone@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/marco-ajmone-marsan

Wireless networks, energy efficiency, performance evaluation

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Marco Mellia

mellia@polito.it

Electronics and Telecommunications Department

Politecnico di Torino

The group is currently focusing on Big Data and Data Science topics, considering both fundamental problems, i.e., scalability of parallel algorithms in mapreduce/spark/streaming processing, and applications to different domains, from Internet Traffic analysis for malware detection, to applications for customer segmentation, from predictive maintenance of large and distributed systems, to pattern and anomaly detection.

More information can be found at

http://bigdata.polito.it 

And more information about the PhD program is available at

http://dottorato.polito.it/en/admission 

Paolo Giaccone

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: paolo.giaccone@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/paolo-giaccone

Topics: Software Defined Networking (SDN), data center architectures, cloud/fog computing, 5G Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: carla.chiasserini@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/carla-fabiana-chiasserini

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/carla-fabiana-chiasserini

Topics: SDN and NFV for vertical support in 5G, 5G Mobile Edge Computing (MEC),
5G wireless access

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Emilio Leonardi

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: emilio.leonardi@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/emilio-leonardi

Topics: Online social networks and their dynamics,  Crowd-sourcing systems, Epidemic processes over large graphs, Performance evaluation of large systems, Network science

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Japan

Prof. Hiroshi Esaki

hiroshi@wide.ad.jp

University of Tokyo

Internet, green university, IPv6 promotion, Internet traffic measurement

http://hiroshi1.hongo.wide.ad.jp/hiroshi/ 

Prof. Youki Kadobayashi

youki-k@is.aist-nara.ac.jp 

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Internet engineering, web security, cybersecurity education, cybersecurity standards

https://iplab.naist.jp/member/youki/ 

Prof. Jun Murai

junsec@wide.ad.jp

Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus

Internet, security, IoT, IT policy

https://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/IRL/ 

Yoichi Shinoda

shinoda@jaist.ac.jp

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Security, Internet traffic analysis, mobile networking, network testbeds

https://shinoda-www.jaist.ac.jp/ 

Prof. Hideki Sunahara

suna@wide.ad.jp

Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design

Security, mobile communication, sensor networks, networked knowledge construction

http://www.kmd.keio.ac.jp/en/experience/faculty/sunahara.html 

Assoc. Prof. Rodney Van Meter

rdv@sfc.wide.ad.jp 

Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus

Quantum networking, quantum computer architecture

http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~rdv/

Netherlands

University of Amsterdam

SNE

Karst Koymans K.Koymans@uva.nl

Master programme in Security/System Engineering and Networking

OS3/UvA website

Admission information SNE master (info@os3.nl)

SNE is the University of Amsterdam top rated master education in System/Security and Network Engineering. We focus on Open Standards, Open Software and Open Security, hence the name OS3.

UK 

Hamed Haddadi

hamed.haddadi@qmul.ac.uk 

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

Networked Systems, Privacy, Social Computing, Sensing, IoT

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~hamed/

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/research-topics

Gareth Tyson

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,

Queen Mary University of London

Internet measurements, networked systems, social media

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/

Andrew W Moore

Andrew.moore@cl.cam.ac.uk

Computer Laboratory

University of Cambridge

Networked systems, measurements, high performance, low-latency, machine-learning in networked systems

Http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~awm22/

Rip Sohan
ripduman.sohan@cl.cam.ac.uk
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Data provenance, computational provenance, high-performance storage, hardware-software interfaces, NVMe, NVMF, operating system design and scalability, end-host NIC hardware and software design
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/fresco/

Research Assistant (pre-PhD) positions available

Postdoc openings available

Funded PhDs available

Yehia Elkhatib

School of Computing and Communications

Lancaster University

Cloud computing, fog computing, network architectures, network measurement

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/~elkhatib/ 

Noa Zilberman

noa.zilberman@cl.cam.ac.uk

Computer Laboratory

University of Cambridge

Rack-scale computing, high performance systems, networking & computing architectures, resilient networked-systems.  

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nz247

Mark Handley

Dept of Computer Science

University College London

Networked systems, network architecture, congestion control, routing, datacentre networking

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley

Stefano Vissicchio

s.vissicchio@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Dept of Computer Science

University College London

Network systems, Software Defined Networking (SDN), network management, routing, traffic engineering, network monitoring and testing, Internet measurements

http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Vissicchio/

Marwan Fayed

Dept of Computer Science and Mathematics

University of Stirling

Streaming Video; Networked Systems, Architectures, and Measurement, Wireless Routing, Medium Access Control.

http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~mmf/

Mario Kolberg

Computer Science and Mathematics

University of Stirling

P2P overlays, MANET, IoT.

http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~mko/

Felix Cuadrado

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,

Queen Mary University of London

Large-Scale Graph Processing, Distributed Systems, Internet-Scale Applications

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~fcuadrado

Bogdan Ghita

bogdan.ghita@plymouth.ac.uk 

Centre for Security, Communications, and Networks

Plymouth University

Network performance monitoring, network traffic analysis, user and application traffic profiling, QoS, SDN

http://www.cscan.org/bghita

Peter Pietzuch

prp@imperial.ac.uk

Large-Scale Distributed Systems Group, Imperial College London

http://lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk

Systems, distributed systems, database systems, networking, security

We have post-doc openings:

http://lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/content/post-doctoral-researcher-distributed-systems-systems-database

We also have funding for PhD students.

Nicholas Race

School of Computing & Communications

Lancaster University

Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), Fog Computing, Multimedia Distribution / Streaming Video

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/scc/about-us/people/nicholas-race 

FRANCE

Giovanni Pau

University Piere et Marie Curie Sorbonne

Laboratory of Computer Science (LIP6)

Mobile Systems, IoT, Social Computing,  Urban Sensing

giovanni.pau@lip6.fr

https://www.lip6.fr/actualite/personnes-fiche.php?nom=Pau 

Cristel Pelsser

University of Strasbourg

Networking research group

Core networks

pelsser@unistra.fr

http://icube-reseaux.unistra.fr/en/index.php/Home

Kavé Salamatian

Université de Savoie, Grenoble-Alpes

Annecy, France

kave.salamatian@univ-savoie.fr

Networking, social network analysis, cybersecurity

Luxembourg

Dr. Radu State (senior researcher)

radu.state@uni.lu

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, SEDAN group

SDN, NDN, IDS in IP networks

http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sedan 

Spain

Dr. Arturo Azcorra (professor)

arturo.azcorra@imdea.org 

IMDEA Networks Institute and University Carlos III

5G networks, NFV, SDN, drones, energy efficient networks.

Funding available.

Madridn

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~arturo_azcorra

Personal: http://www.it.uc3m.es/~azcorra

Dr. Antonio Fernández Anta (research professor)

antonio.fernandez@imdea.org

IMDEA Networks Institute

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Dr. Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez (research assistant professor)

narseo.vallina@imdea.org

IMDEA Networks Institute and ICSI-Berkeley

Internet measurements, privacy and security. Focus on mobile and IoT.

PhD positions available.

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~narseo_vallina/

Dr. Joerg Widmer (research professor)

joerg.widmer@imdea.org 

IMDEA Networks Institute and ICSI-Berkeley

Millimeter-wave communication and networking, mobile broadband measurements

PhD positions available.

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~joerg_widmer/ 

Dr. Vincenzo Mancuso (Research Associate Professor)

IMDEA Networks Institute

5G, Cellular networks, Opportunistic networks, Device-to-device communications, IoT.

PhD positions available.

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~vincenzo_mancuso/

Opportunistic Architectures Lab: http://opparch.networks.imdea.org/ 

Data Science & Machine Learning

Australia

Adam Dunn

adam.dunn@mq.edu.au

Centre for Health Informatics, Macquarie University

Machine Learning, Data Science (applications in healthcare informatics and epidemiology)

See http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/Scholarships for scholarships

http://www.adamgdunn.net and @adamgdunn

Ben Rubinstein

University of Melbourne (School of Computing & Information Systems)

benjamin.rubinstein@unimelb.edu.au

http://bipr.net 

Statistical Machine Learning, Adversarial Learning and Robustness, Differential Privacy, Data Integration/Record Linkage in Databases. Projects make use of strong theoretical foundations or great systems building skills. I have had a number of Iranian students (for example) in my group, we have a large cohort in our School.

Scholarship information:

https://studenteforms.app.unimelb.edu.au/apex/f?p=153:2:0:::2:P2_ID:641

Research Degree information:

https://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/admissions/applications/research

Austria

Christoph Lampert

IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)

http://pub.ist.ac.at/~chl/

chl@ist.ac.at

Canada

Ali Miri

Computer and Information Security Lab (iCaSL)

Ryerson University

Toronto, Ontario, Ontario

http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~samiri

Applied cryptography, Cloud computing, Big data and machine learning, IoT

Cyprus

Dr. Sotirios Chatzis (Assistant Professor)

sotirios.chatzis@eecei.cut.ac.cy

https://www.cut.ac.cy/eecei/staff/sotirios.chatzis/

MSc in Data Science and Engineering

Cyprus University of Technology

Data Science with a focus on Statistical Machine Learning.

Main application areas: modelling of human behavior, recommender systems, multimedia analysis, assisted and artificial creativity, computational finance, natural language processing, and social network analysis.

Denmark

Sune Lehmann

sljo@dtu.dk

Technical University of Denmark

Data science (main application areas: network science, modelling of human behavior)

https://sunelehmann.com

Natalie Schluter

natschluter@itu.dk, www.itu.dk/~nael 

IT University of Copenhagen, www.itu.dk 

Data Science (especially algorithms for machine learning, neural networks and natural language processing)

Germany

Arash Asadi

SEEMOO

Technical University of Darmstadt

Email: aasadiATseemoo.tu-darmstadt.de

https://www.seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de/team/arash-asadi/

Wireless communications with focus on Machine learning techniques.

Italy

Marco Mellia

mellia@polito.it

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

The group is currently focusing on Big Data and Data Science topics, considering both fundamental problems, i.e., scalability of parallel algorithms in mapreduce/spark/streaming processing, and applications to different domains, from Internet Traffic analysis for malware detection, to applications for customer segmentation, from predictive maintenance of large and distributed systems, to pattern and anomaly detection.

More information can be found at

http://bigdata.polito.it 

And more information about the PhD program is available at

http://dottorato.polito.it/en/admission 

Luxembourg

Dr. Radu State (senior researcher)

radu.state@uni.lu

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, SEDAN group

Data Science, mostly in security applications, practical machine learning

http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sedan 

Spain

Dr. Antonio Fernández Anta (research professor)

antonio.fernandez@imdea.org

IMDEA Networks Institute

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Dr. Paolo Casari (research assistant professor)

paolo.casari@imdea.org

IMDEA Networks Institute

Madrid

Funding → http://www.networks.imdea.org/phd-student-positions-2017#phd_machinelearning 

Institution’s web site: http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal page: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~paolo_casari/ 

United Kingdom (UK)  

Hamed Haddadi

hamed.haddadi@qmul.ac.uk 

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

Networked Systems, Privacy, Social Computing, Sensing, IoT

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~hamed/

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/research-topics

Mirco Musolesi

m.musolesi@ucl.ac.uk

University College London, UK

Data science (main application areas: human behaviour modelling and security&privacy), ubiquitous computing and networked systems.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamus

Dr. Matt Forshaw

matthew.forshaw@ncl.ac.uk

Newcastle University, UK

School of Computing Science, Newcastle University

Lecturer in Data Science

Main applications areas: energy-efficient computing, security, learning analytics

http://www.mattforshaw.com

Andrew W Moore

Andrew.moore@cl.cam.ac.uk

Computer Laboratory

University of Cambridge

Networked systems, measurements, high performance, low-latency, machine-learning in networked systems

Http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~awm22/

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

Austria

Christoph Lampert

IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)

http://pub.ist.ac.at/~chl/

chl@ist.ac.at

Human Computer Interaction

Cyprus

Prof. Panayiotis Zaphiris

Cyprus University of Technology

Cyprus Interaction Lab

http://www.zaphiris.com/ 

Areas of expertise: human computer interaction, inclusive design, social computing
We are matching international student fees to EU student fees for our online MSc in Interaction Design
http://www.idmaster.eu 

PhD and Internship positions at http://www.cyprusinteractionlab.com 

United Kingdom (UK)  

Professor Helen Petrie

Human Computer Interaction Research Group

Department of Computer Science

University of York

UK

Areas of expertise: human computer interaction, design and evaluation of technology for disabled and older people, usable security, methods for HCI

The University of York has scholarships specially for refugees for our undergraduate courses: https://www.york.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/fees-funding/international/asylum-seekers-scholarship/

Emilio Leonardi

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: emilio.leonardi@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/emilio-leonardi

Topics: Online social networks and their dynamics,  Crowd-sourcing systems, Epidemic processes over large graphs, Performance evaluation of large systems, Network Science

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Wireless Communications

Germany

Arash Asadi

SEEMOO

Technical University of Darmstadt

Email: aasadiATseemoo.tu-darmstadt.de

https://www.seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de/team/arash-asadi/

Wireless communications in general (MAC/PHY).  Current interest mmWave, V2X, D2D, HetNets, Coexistence problems.

ITALY

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: carla.chiasserini@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/paolo-giaccone

Topics: 5G wireless access, device-to-device communications and wireless relay networks,

massive MIMO

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Spain

Dr. Joerg Widmer (research professor)

joerg.widmer@imdea.org 

IMDEA Networks Institute and ICSI-Berkeley

Millimeter-wave communication and networking, mobile broadband measurements

PhD positions available.

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~joerg_widmer/ 

Dr. Vincenzo Mancuso (Research Associate Professor)

IMDEA Networks Institute

5G, Cellular networks, Opportunistic networks, Device-to-device communications, IoT.

PhD positions available.

Madrid

http://www.networks.imdea.org/

Personal: http://people.networks.imdea.org/~vincenzo_mancuso/

Opportunistic Architectures Lab: http://opparch.networks.imdea.org/ 

Mobile Computing

FRANCE

Giovanni Pau

University Pierre et Marie Curie Sorbonne

Laboratory of Computer Science (LIP6)

Mobile Systems, IoT, Social Computing,  Urban Sensing

giovanni.pau@lip6.fr

https://www.lip6.fr/actualite/personnes-fiche.php?nom=Pau 

Hong Kong

Pan Hui

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  

Email: panhuiATcse.ust.hk

http://www.cse.ust.hk/~panhui/

system aspect of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) and AR content generation, mobile computing, urban computing, and other interesting topics related to social network

ITALY

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: carla.chiasserini@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/paolo-giaccone

Topics: 5G Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), vehicular networks and services, social computing

PhD applications: http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_admission

Bioinformatics

Programming Languages

United Kingdom

Christian Urban (and others)

christian.urban@kcl.ac.uk

Kevin Hammond, Edwin Brady and others

University of St Andrews

kevin@kevinhammond.net, http://www.kevinhammond.net

6 fully-funded PhD opportunities in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews.  Any topic related to functional programming, parallelism, real-time, security etc. with a programming language angle is interesting to us, including types for reasoning about security, energy, time and other systems properties, refactoring, software engineering etc, including Haskell, Erlang and Scala.  We have excellent connections with the UK and international research communities, coordinate the EU Horizon 2020 RePhrase project (http://www.rephrase-ict.eu) and coordinate a project that aims to commercialise previous research results in refactoring-based parallelisation (http:www.paraformance.com).

We are also open to research visitors of all kinds, including sabbaticals etc, and anticipate increasing our permanent academic staff in line with increasing student numbers.

Software Engineering

Greece

Diomidis Spinellis

http://www.spinellis.gr — dds@aueb.gr

PhD Candidate or Postdoctoral Researcher in Applied Software Engineering. This is a position to perform applied research in software engineering. funded for three years through the European Union Horizon 2020 CROSSMINER project. We are looking for first stage researchers holding a Master degree or equivalent who will be hired as a PhD candidate, or for a recognized researcher holding a PhD or equivalent who will be hired as a postgraduate associate. The topic of the research is to mine and analyse data from software repositories (such as GitHub) to help developers and administrators build better software and systems. Additional details regarding benefits, application, and selection process can be found in the position’s EURAXESS posting. https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/175366

Canada

Software Practices Lab at UBC in Vancouver

Ivan Beschastnikh, Thomas Fritz, Ronald Garcia, Reid Holmes, Gail Murphy

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/cs-research/software-practices-lab/people

Looking for candidates at all levels: MSc, PhD, Post-doctorate.

We work on programming languages, software testing, software analysis, human aspects of software engineering, and many other topics. See our personal homepages for more information.

Spain

IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid

Alessandra Gorla http://software.imdea.org/~alessandra.gorla

Computer Games

United Kingdom (UK)  

Dayna Galloway (and others)

admissions@abertay.ac.uk

Division of Games and Arts, Abertay University, Dundee, UK

Computer games technology (graphics, simulation, AI), serious games, games studies. We offer PhDs and Masters by Research, with a few funded places each year; please get in touch with us to discuss potential supervisors and areas of interest.

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/discover/academic-schools/arts-media-computer-games/

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate-research-degrees/

Computer Graphics

Austria

Bernd Bickel, Computer Graphics and Digital Fabrication
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
Looking for PhD students and postdocs
bernd.bickel@ist.ac.at
http://visualcomputing.ist.ac.at

Network Science

ITALY

Emilio Leonardi

Electronics and Telecommunications Department, Politecnico di Torino

Email: emilio.leonardi@polito.it

http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/emilio-leonardi

Topics: Online social networks and their dynamics,  Crowd-sourcing systems, Epidemic processes over large graphs, Performance evaluation of large systems, Network Science