Multiple postdoc, research engineer, and PhD student openings are available in our SOAR research group for our upcoming funded research project entitled "Testing and Verification of Artificial Intelligence Systems" (starting in October 2019). The project will develop testing and runtime verification solutions to ensure that AI systems are reliable and abide to safety and ethical (S&E) properties. This project focuses on deep neural networks, which is the most popular and fastest growing AI technology today; still, some of the to-be-realized solutions are applicable for other AI technologies.
Our groups have a track record of publishing at top conferences and journals in multiple areas, including software engineering (ICSE, FSE, ASE, TSE, TOSEM, etc.), artificial intelligence (AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, etc.), and cybersecurity (S&P, ESORICS). Despite our small size, based on publications in ICSE and FSE, CSRankings (http://csrankings.org/#/index?soft&world, on Sep 2019) puts SMU at the #32 position worldwide in the area of Software Engineering - #11 considering ICSE, FSE and ASE.
The candidates are expected to solve interesting research problems and publish at top conferences or journals. Alumni from our research group have successfully became tenure-track faculty members at leading universities (including the University of Melbourne, Australia; Queen's University, Canada; Monash University, Australia; Oxford University, UK; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; The University of Queensland, Australia; etc.) and engineers and data scientist at high-tech companies (including Microsoft, Canada; Schroder Investment Management, Luxembourg; Hudson River Trading, Singapore; etc.). Our group is diverse with past/current members of the group coming from, e.g., China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Brazil, Canada, and France.
The working language is English. The general requirements and remunerations are:
PostdocsThe initial contract is for 1 year, with possibility of an extension till the end of the project. The salary range is SGD 75K - 100K per annum. Singapore's tax is around 3%-5% of the annual salary. Applicants will be reviewed on first-come-first-serve basis.
Research EngineersThe initial contract is for 1 year, with possibility of an extension till the end of the project. The salary range is SGD 45K - 60K per annum. Singapore's tax is around 3%-5% of the annual salary. Applicants will be reviewed on first-come-first-serve basis.
PhD StudentsPhD students would be funded through a scholarship which covers the school fee and provides a stipend for 4 years. The stipend will be SGD 2K per month (before qualifying exam) and SGD 2.5K per month (after qualifying exam). Highly qualified PhD students may be offered a presidential doctoral fellowship with a stipend of SGD 3.75K per month (to be renewed every year). PhD stipend is NOT subjected to income tax.
Interested candidates should send their CV to David Lo (davidlo@smu.edu.sg), Lingxiao Jiang (lxjiang@smu.edu.sg), and Sun Jun (junsun@smu.edu.sg)
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