PhD Scholarships on Security Analysis for Mobile Software
           Programming Languages and Compilers Group
                       UNSW Australia 

UNSW is located in Sydney, one of the most breathtakingly beautiful 
cities in the world. UNSW is a world-renowned university (ranked 46th
in the world in the 2015-16 prestigious QS World University Rankings
and among the top 10 Science Universities in the World 
(http://gazettereview.com/2016/09/top-ten-science-universities-world/)
and a member of Go8 (Group of Eight)--a coalition of research-intensive 
Australian universities, well recognised for its engineering program
(with its Computer Science ranked 35th in the QS 2016).

Programming Languages and Compilers Group in the School of Computer Science
and Engineering, UNSW is a world leading group in the area of
programming languages and compilers. We focus on not only developing
foundational techniques (e.g., pointer analysis, reflection analysis and
automatic parallelisation) but also implementing these techniques in 
production-quality tools (e.g., LLVM and Soot) and applying them to solve diverse 
and important real-world problems (e.g., bug detection, security analysis
and automatic vectorisation). We have broad interests in the area of 
programming languages and compilers, ranging from programming language 
design, program analysis, compiler technology, software engineering to 
computer architecture, embedded systems and high performance computing.
Our research has been supported by both government grants (e.g., from ARC)
and industry grants (from Intel, Oracle, Huawei and Data61).

There are currently a number of PhD scholarships available from our group.
We are looking for self-motivated students with strong systems skill  
to work on security software analysis, including but are not limited to 
(1) mobile malware analysis, (2) security analysis for robot software,
(3) demand-driven analysis for multithreaded software, (4) user-driven 
program analysis for bug detection, (5) analysis of probabilistic programs,
(6) program analysis for dynamic language features, and  (7) pointer 
analysis for large code bases.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD degree in any of these exciting
topics, please email a copy of your CV to:

Professor Jingling Xue
School of Computer Science and Engineering
UNSW Australia
E-Mail: jingling@cse.unsw.edu.au
Web: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jingling/