[iva] PhD fellowships in Computer Science (Human movement analysis & Security) - University College Cork, Ireland

[Maurizio Mancini]

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The School of Computer Science and Information Technology of the University
College Cork (Ireland) is a partner in two Science Foundation Ireland
Centres for Research Training (CRTs): ADVANCE and AI. The centres will fund
more than 200 PhD positions over 6 years, in areas ranging from
communication networks to artificial intelligence, including human computer
interaction (HCI) and cyber security.

Students admitted to these programmes will receive full scholarships to
undertake a four year PhD programme. The scholarships include full payment
of university fees and a monthly tax-free stipend of €1,500 per month for
four years, as well as a budget for equipment, travel, and training.

*Interdisciplinary PhDs fellowships on Human movement analysis &
Security/Privacy*

The School of Computer Science and Information Technology is currently
inviting expression of interests for two fully-funded 4-year PhD positions
in interdisciplinary themes in the areas of Human movement analysis &
Security.

Technology that can detect and analyse people movements to extract
high-level information (e.g., affective states, social bonds) is being
increasingly investigated in HCI. With the advent of Internet-of-Things and
communication technologies such as 5G, people movements will be subject to
constant monitoring, which will introduce significant privacy challenges.
We propose a joint inter-disciplinary research work, simultaneously
focusing on the following 2 aspects of human movement analysis and security:

1. to develop a cloud-based software architecture allowing portable devices
(e.g., smartphones or smart devices in general) to extract human movement
data and perform socio-emotional analysis of users in real-time. To do
that, we propose to investigate how computational models of socio-affective
features can be implemented (e.g., as web services) in a cloud-based
architecture.

2. to develop privacy-enhancing technologies that can be applied to the
analysis of human movement data, in order to guarantee the privacy of the
individual and the security of the data; the research will focus on secure
computation and homomorphic encryption techniques, which can enable the HCI
computation to be achieved without disclosing the underlying information.

All recruited PhD students will work on research at the intersection of HCI
and security, in an interdisciplinary setting. However, the focus of each
individual PhD can be more on HCI or more on security, depending on the
background and interests of student.

*Deadline*
Expressions of interest for the 2019-2020 call need to be received by May
24th, 2019.

*How to apply*
Interested candidates should write by email to Dr Paolo Palmieri (
p.palmieri at cs.ucc.ie) and Dr Maurizio Mancini (m.mancini at cs.ucc.ie) for an
initial discussion.

Applicants should include: 1) a brief cover letter (1 page max) explaining
their interest in the project topic, and mentioning any previous experience
in HCI/security; 2) a curriculum vitae.

Shortlisted students will be asked to submit a full application (including
academic transcripts, evidence of English language proficiency, and
references) at a later stage.
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