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PhD Positions on Trustworthy Electronic Elections
(for more information see http://www.demtech.dk/)
The IT University of Copenhagen invites applications for several PhD positions
on developing and evaluating trustworthy electronic election technology. With
this project, we try to prove that it is possible to modernize the democratic
process using information technology without losing the trust of the voters.
The PhD positions are concerned with different aspects of this research
question, for example, how to design formal techniques to hold machines
accountable for their actions, to run trusted code in untrusted environments,
to develop software in a trust-preserving way, and to
evaluate technology form a societal point of view.
Applicants should have a strong background and interest in some combination of
the following areas in computer science: cryptography, concurrency, epistemic
logics, formal methods, information security, modal logics, operational
semantics, programming languages, proof assistants, logical frameworks,
requirement engineering, rewriting theory, security protocol design, software
engineering, theorem proving, type theory and social science: democracy and
science, democratic governance, ethnographic studies and ethnography of
technologies, genealogy of democracy and technology, political technologies,
public understanding of science, trust in information, science and technology
studies (STS).
To apply, please visit the project homepage http://www.demtech.dk/. Early
expressions of interest are encouraged: Carsten Schuermann (cars...@itu.dk),
Joseph Kiniry (kin...@acm.org), Randi Markussen (r...@itu.dk), Christopher Gad
(c...@itu.dk), or nina Boulus (n...@itu.dk).
Best regards,
-- Carsten Schuermann and Joseph Kiniry
