Postdoctoral Research Associate I
- Employer
- University of Arizona
- Location
- Tucson, AZ
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- Position Type
- Postdoc
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
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Department:Computer Science
Department Website Link:https://www.cs.arizona.edu/
Location:Main Campus
Address:Tucson, AZ USA
Position Highlights:This purpose of this postdoctoral position is to run the project "LIGERLabs: Educational Modules for (Anti-)Reverse Engineering" that was recently funded by NSF under the SaTC/EDU program.
This work builds lectures, tools, and exercises to improve students' abilities in Reverse Engineering and Anti-Reverse Engineering. The goal is threefold: to give students the mental tools necessary to understand the low-level nature of many of the security issues seen today, to increase student proficiency in dissecting and analyzing different forms of executable code, and to ensure students are familiar with techniques for protecting against such attacks.
This is a year to year appointment up to 2nd year contingent upon funding and performance.
Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, vision, and life insurance; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!
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The successful candidate will lead this project, direct undergraduate students, and build open source pedagogical artifacts such as recorded video lectures and animations, virtual machines with pre-installed attack and defense tools, pen-and-pencil homework exercises, in-class collaborative exercises, take home programming assignments, and generators and auto-graders of reverse engineering exercises. They will also conduct studies of students of different backgrounds in order to build up a schedule of exercises of appropriate complexity.
The work will make use of previous tools built by our group, in particular Tigress (https://tigress.wtf), RevEngE
(http://revenge.cs.arizona.edu), and SandMark (http://sandmark.cs.arizona.edu).
The ideal candidate has a passion for teaching at the college level, a background in computer security (in particular reverse engineering), and is a seeking a position that will serve as a springboard for a future pedagogical career in computer security. There will be ample opportunities for pedagogical research and publication and, for the candidate who so desires, gaining teaching experience.
- PhD in Computer Science or relevant discipline by the time of hire
Research experience in computer security, college-level teaching experience
FLSA:Exempt
Full Time/Part Time:Full Time
Number of Hours Worked per Week:40
Job FTE:1.0
Work Calendar:Fiscal
Job Category:Research
Benefits Eligible:Yes - Full Benefits
Rate of Pay:$65,000
Compensation Type:salary at 1.0 full-time equivalency (FTE)
Type of criminal background check required::Name-based criminal background check (non-security sensitive)
Number of Vacancies:1
Target Hire Date:10/31/2020
Expected End Date:Contact Information for Candidates:
Christian Collberg
collberg@cs.arizona.edu
9/18/2020
Open Until Filled:Yes
Documents Needed to Apply:Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and One Additional Document
Special Instructions to Applicant:Please attach with your application the following documents:
1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Cover Letter
3. You will be required to provide contact information for a minimum of three professional references. Please upload your reference contact list under the “Additional Document” slot within your application.
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