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NTU Main Campus, Singapore, Singapore
Onsite
We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to support research in cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, and large language model security. The successful candidate will contribute to projects related to privacy-preserving AI interactions, trustworthy knowledge acquisition, and secure information processing in security-sensitive AI systems. The role will involve assisting in the design, implementation, and evaluation of methods for reducing privacy leakage, mitigating adversarial risks, and improving the security and trustworthiness of LLM-based systems. The candidate will also support the construction of research benchmarks, experimental evaluation, and the preparation of high-quality research publications. This position will contribute to NTU’s mission of advancing secure and trustworthy intelligent systems through interdisciplinary research in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Key responsibilities:
Conduct research on cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, and large language model security, with a focus on privacy-preserving AI interactions and secure information processing.
Design, implement, and evaluate methods for trustworthy knowledge acquisition in LLM-based systems, including approaches to reduce privacy leakage and mitigate adversarial risks.
Develop learning-based and evaluation-driven approaches to improve the security, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI systems in security-sensitive scenarios.
Construct experimental platforms, benchmarks, and datasets for evaluating LLM security, privacy protection, and trustworthy AI applications.
Conduct empirical experiments, performance analysis, and ablation studies to validate proposed methods and support reproducible research.
Prepare and co-author high-quality research papers, technical reports, and project documentation, and collaborate with academic and industry partners on related research projects.
Requirements:
A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline.
Research or applied experience in cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, large language model security, privacy-preserving AI, or related areas.
Experience with LLM-based systems, trustworthy knowledge acquisition, information retrieval, query rewriting, or AI security evaluation.
Familiarity with privacy leakage, adversarial risks, secure information processing, and trustworthiness evaluation in AI or LLM-based systems.
Experience in designing and conducting empirical experiments, including benchmark construction, dataset preparation, performance evaluation, and ablation analysis.
We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Hiring Institution: NTU