Research Fellow in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen’s University Belfast, is currently seeking to appoint exceptional candidates to the posts of Research Fellow to perform research in the area of AI-enabled cybersecurity, called Cyber-AI.

The post is associated with the newly-created Cyber-AI Technologies Hub, where CSIT will collaborate with cyber security companies located in Northern Ireland on research and development projects in AI-enabled cyber security. The Hub is of strategic importance for QUB in relation to meeting it's commitments to the Belfast Region City Deal. In addition, this project is making a contribution of £2.4M to the University.

The Cyber-AI Technologies Hub is a physical environment where companies and academia can collaborate on the advancement and demonstration of AI and cyber security. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for the right candidates to be involved in impact-focused research at the emerging Cyber-AI interface, and to help establish Northern Ireland as the go-to-region worldwide for innovation in Cyber-AI.

The purpose of the role is to perform research in the area of AI-enabled cybersecurity (CyberAI). The role will involve gaining deep understanding of a cybersecurity problem of relevance to a partner company and, using both proprietary and public cybersecurity datasets, design, implement, train and test machine learning, natural language processing, and Document AI models that solve the problem. A key requirement is to design and evaluate novel deep learning and natural language processing architectures reflecting understanding of the cybersecurity datasets and system goals. The role also involves assisting engineering staff in taking the machine learning model into production, in consultation with the partner company.

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following criteria:

• Normally have or about to obtain a PhD in computer science, engineering or physical sciences area
• Recent high quality research experience in machine learning/AI or cybersecurity, or both, as evidenced by a strong track record of publications in leading journals and conferences in relevant areas.
• Software programming skills.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.

This post is available for 36 months. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

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