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Lydia Chen <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 8 Oct 2019 05:57:17 -0400
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PhD students and Postdoc researcher in Optimizing and Privacy-preserving Distributed Machine Learning Systems.

We invite applications for a fully funded 2-year post-doctoral research associate position at the distributed systems group of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

The deadline for postdoc applications is November 15th, 2019. (job id: EWI 2019-50)

Please submit your application to o Dr. C.A. Reijenga, [log in to unmask] and mentioned the position and job id. 

For more information please visit  http://ds.ewi.tudelft.nl.


Lydia Chen,  and Dick Epema
Delft University of Technology
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The Distributed Systems Group
The Distributed Systems group (http://www.ds.ewi.tudelft.nl), under the leadership of Prof. Dick Epema, performs world-class research in the design, implementation, deployment, and analysis of large-scale, Internet-based computer systems. It currently has three research lines: scheduling and resource management in distributed computing systems (e.g., in clusters and clouds), big-data analytics (e.g., differential approximate processing), and cooperative systems (blockchain technology, trust and reputation systems). Its research is fundamental, aimed at the development and evaluation of new generic concepts in systems software, and application-driven, motivated by important application areas. Much of it is experimental, validating the proposed new concepts by means of implementation and deployment in prototypes that are used in the real world. 

The Department Software Technology
The Department of Software Technology (ST) is one of the leading Dutch departments in research and academic education in computer science, employing over 150 people. The department ST is responsible for a large part of the curriculum of the bachelor’s and master’s programmes in Computer Science as well as the master’s programme in Embedded Systems. The inspiration for its research topics is largely derived from technical ICT problems in industry and society related to large-scale distributed processing, embedded systems, programming productivity, and web-based information analysis. 

The Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science 
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) is known worldwide for its high academic quality and the social relevance of its research programmes. Offering an international environment, the faculty has more than 1100 employees (including about 400 PhD students) and more than 3700 bachelor’s and master’s students. Together they work on a broad range of technical innovations in the fields of electrical sustainable energy, microelectronics, intelligent systems, software technology, and applied mathematics. 
    
Job description 
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are ubiquitous in our daily lives, e.g., search engines, machine translation, and self-driving cars. Existing algorithmic solutions may fall short in addressing many challenges around the data, namely its quality, privacy and distributed nature.  The selected postdoctoral researcher will work towards adversary-robust, privacy-preserving, and distributed machine learning systems. The focus of this project will be on system and algorithmic designs for ML systems, with one of applications being health-care images analysis. The expected deliverable is scalable end-to-end ML systems from data collections at edge devices to the algorithm processing, adhering the constraints of data privacy and analysis accuracy.  The project will leverage methodologies from deep neural network, active learning, adversarial learning and differential privacy. The postdoctoral will lead the project with a sizable team of multiple PhD students and mast students, guiding and integrating their ML software modules. 

The research activities will be in close collaboration with international institutes and leading AI companies.  

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