Job Description

The Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab aims to create an entirely new class of privacy-aware and secure platforms and algorithms that have an understanding of the world that far exceeds human ability and produce meaningful abstractions that are well within human comprehensibility.
We are looking for a postdoctoral associate to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) in broad areas including data analysis, machine learning, and novel sensing systems.
The right individual is highly motivated and self-directed with excellent research skills, who can work independently and contribute as part of a very broad multidisciplinary team; possessing experience with machine learning, statistics, cryptography, optimization techniques, different mathematical transforms, tools for signal processing, and as many of the following as possible: Python, C/C++, CUDA.

Responsibilities

• Performing independent research in areas including computational privacy, machine learning, cryptography, federated and split learning;
• Publishing, presenting, and disseminating research to the privacy, security, machine learning, and distributed learning communities;
• Collaborating with professors from other institutions in their research;
• Working with private, industry, and/or government research sponsors to apply for research grants;
• Helping identify projects, mentoring graduate students, and supplementing a team of researchers to push forward this research;
• Other duties as assigned.

The postdoctoral associate will devote about 40% time to research, 30% to lab collaborations, and 30% to grants and industry links. This role offers an opportunity to do state-of-the-art research while developing teaching skills for faculty positions; to be part of the vibrant research community at MIT and the Media Lab, and to attend IEEE, NeurIPS, ICLR, CCS, Usenix, and other conferences.

This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of extension based on the direction of the research and funding.

Qualifications

REQUIRED: 

• PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or closely related fields
• Experience with machine learning, privacy, distributed machine learning, computer vision, and inverse problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive approach to problem-solving and time management
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills;
• Ability to incubate and envision new, innovative research projects and successfully manage their implementation with graduate students.

PREFERRED:

• Background or demonstrated experience in privacy and machine learning;
• Experience in applying machine learning techniques to health data, financial data and etc.
• Programming and building large-scale, distributed systems.
• Interest in current research activities of the Camera Culture group.
• Industry experience is highly encouraged.

To apply, go to https://hr.mit.edu/careers and search for job ID# 20416.

This position will be working on-site.  Please note MIT's pandemic guidance and on-campus requirements.