Research Scientist (1-year contract), SMC

Company Description

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

Responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible for conducting research on fine-grained monitoring of the execution of Android applications and novel program analysis techniques. Successful candidate will be part of an active research team led by Prof Gao Debin and Prof Duan Yue from School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University.

Candidate's Core Responsibilities Are

• Design, modification, and implementation of a modified Android AOSP and kernel for fine-graine monitoring of Android applications.
• Design and implementation of an Android app that facilitates the communication between handsets and Android emulator.
• Experimenting the app and the modified AOSP and kernel on both real handsets and emulators.
• Design and develop novel techniques to facilitate effective program analysis.
• Evaluating the security capability and performance of the proposed techniques
  
  

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from a reputable institution of higher learning
• Good communication skills in English
• Relevant research experience in computer security and related areas is a big plus
• Advanced level of programming and software implementation, especially in C/C++ and Java.
• Good understanding of Android architecture and Android executables.
• Deep knowledge in program analysis techniques and large-language model fundamentals
• Good analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledgeable in software security problems and solutions
• Research experience in software and system security related research
• Applicants with research publications in security area will be advantageous
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members