Research Associate
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- Grade 6, £37,412 per annum, inclusive of £3,223 per annum London Allowance.
- Closing date
- 21 Jul 2019
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- Academic Discipline
- Computer Science, Engineering & Technology
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
The successful candidate will join King’s College London and work on norm-based methods for controlling hyper-connected, socio-technical, and cyber-physical systems.
Norms express interaction conventions as rules of behaviour that should be complied with but can, nevertheless, be violated. This flexibility is precisely what makes norms better suited for cyberspace than unyielding hard controls, whose regimentation may be infeasible and/or undesirable. The successful candidate will work on the development and evaluation of algorithms to check norm compliance. Most of existing proposals on checking norm compliance assume perfect information and observation capabilities, or that norms are fixed and known at design time. However, this assumption is too strong for modern hyper-connected, socio-technical, and cyber-physical systems due to their inherent uncertainty, incompleteness and dynamism. For example, in a business environment it is: infeasible to observe all files uploaded/downloaded to/from public could services, since employees can perform these actions using non-corporate network/devices; impossible to detect all sensitive information contained in files with complete certainty; and norms controlling access to public cloud services can change as a result of new legislation (e.g., GDPR) or threats.
The successful candidate must be highly motivated and must have:
- A PhD (or be close to completion) in Computer Science.
- Previous experience multi-agent systems.
- Previous experience in conducting computer simulations and experiments.
- A strong academic track record of conducting and disseminating research, adequate to their career stage.
- Excellent communication skills in English (both writing and speaking).
This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 6 months.
This is a full-time post.
The selection process will include a panel interview and a presentation.
For an informal discussion, please contact Natalia Criado, natalia.criado@kcl.ac.uk
To apply, please register with the King’s College London application portal and complete your application online.
Closing date 21 July 2019
Company
King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
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- +(44)02078365454
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