Positions: 3

Research Grant (BI)

• Project DACOMICO – Refª PTDC/CCI-COM/2156/2021-BI|2024/528

  Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
  Duration: 6 months
  Deadline to apply: 2024-05-10
  Description
  

  The student will be developing new algorithms for Boolean Optimization with focus on being able to enumerate a diversified set of solutions given a short time limit.

  
  Contact email: rh@inesc-id.pt
  

• Project PT Smart Retail–RefªC6632206063-00466847-BI|2024/529

  Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
  Duration: 6 months
  Deadline to apply: 2024-05-09
  Description
  

  The goal of this project is to contribute to the development of advanced security and privacy-preserving technologies for smart-retail stores. Specifically, this project aims to study an emerging class of vulnerabilities named Denial of Wallet (DoW) attacks. In this type of attack, attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in cloud-hosted services that can trigger excessive resource usage, such as external APIs or public storage, resulting in financial damage to smart retail actors that rely on the cloud for hosting their web applications. Considering these attacks, this project has the following main goals: (1) Design and implement DoWGuard, a novel detection tool for DoW vulnerabilities in cloud applications; (2) Extend the existing static analysis techniques to include the ability to reason about economic sinks and interactions with cloud APIs. (3) Define and specify queries within DoWGuard to accurately identify DoW vulnerability patterns. (4) Integrate DoWGuard into the CI/CD toolchain, providing developers with immediate feedback on potential DoW vulnerabilities during the development lifecycle. (5) Evaluate DoWGuard's effectiveness by applying it to real-world cloud applications. The expected outcome of this project includes both a report of the analyzed solutions and a software prototype of the implemented solution.

  
  Contact email: rh@inesc-id.pt
  

Contract

• Fixed-term work contract - Research Engineer reference 2024.0014 CTTRC Application submission from April 26 to May 10 of 2024

  Type of position: Contract
  Duration: 6 months
  Deadline to apply: 2024-05-10
  Description
  

  evelopment of interactive applications that promote interaction between people and intelligent agents

  The tasks include defining the system's technical and interaction requirements, programming and testing.

  Coordination of the development team if it includes other elements, such as master's students.

  Support in the use of applications developed in scientific studies.

  Preparation of the necessary tools for its application and configuration, and technical support when carrying out tests with people.

  Support in creating elements for communicating results. Includes help in producing graphic elements, images and videos, and description of the system and its application in studies. Helps in collecting data that applications collect and analyzing it

  
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