Posting on behalf of Yong Kiam Tan (NTU):
We are jointly advertising for several open PhD and postdoc positions in
PL/FM at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
PhD positions are fully funded, and will be for the January 2025 or
August 2025 intake at SCSE, NTU.
Details of the postdoctoral positions vary, but they are open to
candidates with PhD-level qualifications in a range of topics in PL/FM.
Please see below for further information on individual openings;
interested candidates should contact us directly.
Luke Ong, Professor
We invite motivated and well-qualified candidates to work on Bayesian
Statistical Probabilistic Programming, as part of a research programme
funded by the National Research Foundation, Singapore.
The appointees will work in the Probabilistic Programming Lab, where
research is carried out on a wide range of topics, especially in the
interface of programming languages, machine learning, and Bayesian
statistics, but also in allied areas in semantics of computation, formal
methods and verification, and in logic and algorithms.
Bayesian Statistical Probabilistic Programming lies in the interface of
programming languages, machine learning, and Bayesian statistics. These
positions will suit researchers with expertise in one (or more) of the
three areas, and are interested and committed to collaborating with
experts in the other areas.
Further details are available at
https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/luke.ong/Vacancies/phd.html
Yang Liu, Professor
I have fully-funded PhD positions available for PL/SE/Security on web3
security (smart contract and runtime monitoring), AV security and
robustness, and Large Language Model (LLM) applications: applying LLM
for FM (specification/property generation, proof automation), LLM for
security (vulnerability detection via static analysis or fuzzing,
vulnerability repair), LLM for SE (multi-agent software development),
LLM security (prompt injection, jailbreak, defence against LLM attacks).
website:
https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/yangliu/
contact: yangliu(a)ntu.edu.sg
Conrad Watt, Assistant Professor
I have fully-funded PhD positions available for PL research, broadly
construed, related to the WebAssembly programming language and virtual
machine. A successful applicant will have the opportunity to work
closely with WebAssembly's industrial standards body and inform the
future direction of the language.
I am also looking to recruit postdocs with experience in mechanised
theorem proving and programming language semantics, to work on advanced
extensions and applications of the WasmCert-Isabelle mechanisation of
WebAssembly and related artefacts. A key theme of this work will be
driving industrial adoption of verified artefacts - for example, see
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3591224. Experience with Isabelle/HOL
would be highly desirable. Funding is available for up to 4 years of
full-time employment.
website: conrad-watt.github.io <http://conrad-watt.github.io>
contact: conrad.watt(a)ntu.edu.sg
Yong Kiam Tan, (incoming) Assistant Professor
I am interested in applications of deductive verification and
interactive theorem proving in automated reasoning, compilers (CakeML),
randomized algorithms, hybrid systems, and cryptography. I am recruiting
up to three PhD students and three postdocs for these topics under a new
Singapore NRF fellowship project.
Please visit
https://tanyongkiam.github.io/advert.html for contact and
other details.
Conrad and Yong Kiam would also like to draw attention to A*STAR's
graduate scholarships
(
https://www.a-star.edu.sg/Scholarships/for-graduate-studies/overview).
These competitive national awards offer enhanced support for exceptional
PhD applicants, who we would jointly supervise in a project related to
the intersection of WebAssembly and CakeML. Please contact us for more
details.