CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL COMPUTING RESEARCH CENTER (SCRC)
RESEARCH FELLOW (POST GRADUATE ASSOCIATE / ASSISTANT RESEARCHER A)
The university: The Cyprus University of Technology, with less than 15 years of operation, managed to secure international recognition and high rankings for its duration. Specifically, at the world university rankings TIMES 2018-2019, the university is ranked 301-350 globally. It is also ranked 214 globally in Computer Science by csrankings.org.
The Social Computing Research Center (SCRC): SCRC (https://www.socialcomputing.eu) brings together researchers specializing in social informatics from various departments of the university combining expertise in the fields of trust-aware design of distributed systems, device-centric authentication, federated identity management, discrimination based on personal data, cybersafety, transactional workload scalability, social aspects of information technology, human-computer interaction, and data mining and analysis.
Also, SCRC has secured a number of new funded research projects. Specifically, in less than four years of its operation, it has secured funding of €2.5 million from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program.
The position: The Cyprus University of Technology accepts applications to fill one (1) Special Scientist position (Post Graduate Associate / Assistant Researcher A’) at the Social Computing Research Center (SCRC). This vacancy is for the European funded project INCOGNITO in the subject " IdeNtity verifiCatiOn with privacy-preservinG credeNtIals for anonymous access To Online services". The INCOGNITO project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program.
Purpose of the position: The goal of the INCOGNITO researcher's position is to combine state-of-the-art technologies in a platform that will allow users to easily understand what is needed to access online services with respect to their privacy and be able to prove specific attributes of their identity or their whole identity.
The purpose of the project: The main purpose of INCOGNITO is to a) design and implement an infrastructure that supports Qualified Anonymity (QA) by leveraging state of the art cryptographic credentials schemes as well as Federated Login solutions; b) design and implement an Identity Acquisition and Management platform that will allow the user to quickly and securely acquire identity attributes from Physical ID documents and Online Identities; c) design and implement an advanced UI/UX AI-based assistant that will guide and inform the user about aspects of his identity management as well as possible actions to take; d) evaluate the results of the project through two pilot activities.
Consortium: The INCOGNITO project consortium includes the Cyprus University of Technology and the University of Piraeus, as well as Small and Medium Enterprises from Greece (Fogus Innovations & Services Pc), Spain (LSTECH ESPANA SL), Spain (Telefonica Investigacion Y Desarrollo SA) and Romania (S.C CERTSIGN S.A).
The Cyprus University of Technology participates in the above program with the NetSySci Lab (https://netsysci.cut.ac.cy), under the umbrella of the Social Computing Research Center (https://www.socialcomputing.eu).
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Applications must be sent via email at: HRrecruits@cut.ac.cy with the subject: “Application for Research Position – IdeNtity verifiCatiOn with privacy-preservinG credeNtIals for anonymous access To Online services Social Computing Research Center (SCRC), no later than Monday 24th January 2022, which is the deadline for the submission of the applications.
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For more information, please visit the University's website https://www.cut.ac.cy/faculties/fet/eecei/ or contact Dr. Michael Sirivianos at michael.sirivianos@cut.ac.cy.