Post Doctoral Fellow (es)

Description

The Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University has an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Fellow.  The candidate will work in the area of multi-party computation (MPC), with a focus on practical computation and communication efficiency. The candidate will investigate the key building blocks for MPC (e.g. garbled circuits, zero-knowledge proofs, etc), advance their state-of-art constructions, and explore their applications to MPC for general computation as well as for special purpose systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in cryptography and data security and privacy. The successful candidate is able to quickly get into new research areas and will be responsible for actively engaging in novel research questions, publishing and communicating research results.  Candidate will also be active in advising students, assisting in preparing research grant proposals and grant reports, implementation of research results, and demonstrating their applicability in systems applications.

Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science or related field.

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