Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
- Department
- ICTEAM
- Research Field
- Computer science » Computer systems
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Country
- Belgium
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Hours Per Week
- 38
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- Not funded by an EU programme
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
CONTEXT
This project is part of the novel CyberGalaxia project, part of CyberExcellence, and funded by the FEDER European fund.
This one-year contract will take place at Galaxia, location of many companies active in cybersecurity and space, such as Rhea, Telespazio and, of course near the ESA and the Euro Space Center. The researcher will have the opportunity to train on two demonstrators, including a cyber range.
While this contract is limited to 1 year and therefore too short to conduct a PhD, it is possible to look for further funding to conduct a PhD (typically four years in Belgium) with the ENSG. Applying as a post-doc is also possible. The salary will be matched with UCLouvain’s salary scale.
ORGANISATION/COMPANY
Université catholique de Louvain
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM)
RESEARCH FIELD
Networking, Systems, NFV, Cyber Security, Space
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
The candidate must have obtained a Master’s degree in computer science before the start date (April 2024, can be adapted). If applying as a post-doc, the same rule applies to the doctoral dissertation.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
ASAP, applications will be reviewed every two weeks until a candidate is found.
LOCATION
The applicant will share his or her time between Galaxia in Transinnes, where the contact will be established, and a second office in Louvain-La-Neuve. The split of her/his time is to be discussed.
TYPE OF CONTRACT
Research Engineer, 1 year position, full-time
Funded as part of the CyberGalaxia FEDER project.
JOB STATUS
Full-time
HOURS PER WEEK
38
OFFER DESCRIPTION
The applicant will join the ENSG, but work partly at Galaxia in Transinnes with other members of CyberExcellence.
The candidate will build a network audit system to allow auditors to run analyses on network traffic without violating user privacy or regulations such as the GDPR. To this end, the candidate will build a verifier that ensures that the private data of users analyzed by the audit system are aggregated in a sufficient manner before being exported to the listener. For instance, the program can scan each connection to check the recipient’s secure server name (TLS SNI) but can only output a proportion of users heading to the servers of this or that service provider. The system will be based on Retina, a system previously built in a consortium including the ENSG and Stanford ESRG.
The CyberGalaxia project studies cybersecurity problems, particularly in space. Hence, this project is particularly looking at how to run efficient network analysis in satellite-constrained resources and how to audit civilian traffic that is spreading with LEO Internet connection.
SUBMISSION
Please send to tom.barbette@uclouvain.be:
(a) Curriculum vitae;
(b) Motivation letter;
We will get back to you, the selection process includes in general a first informal meeting via Teams, and then an in-person interview.
REQUIRED LANGUAGES
ENGLISH: at least B1
French is not required but is a plus
Other positions
See the range of possibilities at the Efficiency of Networked Systems Group
Requirements
- Research Field
- Computer science » Computer systems
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Good student
- Good in the Operating System and networking courses
- Ease with programming in Rust
- Autonomy, research-minded
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Good
- Research Field
- Computer science » Computer systemsComputer science » Programming
Additional Information
- Possibility to extend on a PhD (further funding is not guaranteed)
Applications will be reviewed every two weeks until a candidate is found
We will get back to you, the selection process includes in general a first informal meeting via Teams, and then an in-person interview.
The candidate will have to attend the Galaxia office a few days per week, which is not easily accessible by public transport. Therefore the candidate should hold a driving license and have a car.
- Website for additional job details
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- UCLouvain / ICTEAM / INGI - Galaxia offices
- Country
- Belgium
- City
- Libin
- Postal Code
- 6890
- Street
- Devant les Hêtres 2
- Geofield
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- UCLouvain / ICTEAM / INGI
- Country
- Belgium
- City
- Louvain-La-Neuve
- Postal Code
- 1348
- Street
- Place Sainte Barbe, 2
Where to apply
- tom.barbette@uclouvain.be
Contact
- City
- Louvain-la-Neuve
- Website
- Street
- Place Sainte-Barbe 2
- Postal Code
- 1348
- tom.barbette@uclouvain.be
- Phone
- 0032479609463