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Call for Expression of Interest for MSCA Postdoctoral fellowships at UNIGE – N. 21 Safety and Security of Artificial Intelligence
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Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?NoContact Information Organisation / Company TypeHigher Education Institution WebsiteEmail[email protected] State/ProvinceGenoa Postal Code16145 StreetVia alla Opera Pia 13DescriptionDescription – Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025. Our University has been beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.The Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of funding scheme of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training and networking costs. The research projects will have 2- or 3-years duration.Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCA@UniGe. Selectedcandidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-days online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposal, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organisation of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point and other experts.The masterclass will take place on May/June2025.More information:MSCA domain: Information Science and Engineering (ENG)Research Project Description
- AI Attacks and Defenses: mechanisms behind evasion and poisoning attacks against artificial intelligence. The former produce carefully-crafted input manipulations that cause errors in the system. The latter study how to inject samples in the training data to cause a high error or specific malicious behaviors in the model after training.
- Secure AI for Cybersecurity: AI-driven cybersecurity solutions to detect threats and vulnerabilities. Applications include the study of AI-based web security solutions to detect attacks coming from malicious users, malware detectors able to block these threats before they are executed, and spam filtering tools used to block undesired and potentially dangerous emails in the users’ electronic mailboxes.
- Large Language Models Security: techniques to assess the robustness of Large Language Models, integrating security measures to ensure that these powerful tools can be safely and effectively used.
Research GroupThe sAIfer Lab is a virtual lab founded to strengthen and expand the activities of the two founding partners, the PRA Lab and the SmartLab, in the strategic areas of AI and Cybersecurity and create added value for all the partners and stakeholders of the Universities of Cagliari and Genoa. sAIfer Lab research fits in the so called Pasteur’s quadrant, conjugating the search for fundamental understanding of scientific problems with practical use for society in fields of cybersecurity, biometrics, and industry. The Lab has a special focus on the development of safe and secure AI systems that ensure that no unintentional or intentional harm can occur to people, IT systems, society, and critical infrastructures. Unintentional harms due to the lack of safety of AI systems to unexpected situations. Intentional harms due to the lack of security of AI systems against attacks.ApplicationAn expression of interest shall be sent to prof. Fabio Roli ( , Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4103-9190) within 5th May 2025.
Your file should contain the following elements:
- A short CV
- A one-page research proposal
- One/two letters of reference (optional)
For more information, please contact prof. Fabio Roli ( ).EligibilityFor MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025) postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.More info on MSCA PF at the following link:Share this page
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Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:12:33 GMT
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