State of Virginia-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Senior
Blacksburg, VA
5,001-10,000 employees
Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

Applications are invited for a Research Associate Professor (non-tenure track) with the Systems Software Research Group at Virginia Tech. The position involves conducting research at the intersection of program analysis and formal verification toward developing trustworthy tools for reasoning about safety and security properties. Opportunities exist to investigate a broad set of topics including highly scalable program analysis tools for detecting violations of safety and security properties, techniques for verified operating system kernel extensions, logic frameworks for automatic reasoning of security vulnerabilities, verified decompilation, and automatic patching with provable security properties. Opportunities also exist to investigate project-relevant topics of mutual interest.

  • Conduct research in program analysis and formal verification.
  • Develop trustworthy tools for reasoning about safety and security properties.
  • Investigate scalable program analysis tools.
  • Explore techniques for verified operating system kernel extensions.
  • Work on logic frameworks for automatic reasoning of security vulnerabilities.
  • Engage in verified decompilation and automatic patching with provable security properties.
  • Mentor PhD and MS students.
  • PhD in computer science or computer engineering.
  • Expertise in formal verification, proof assistants, verification tools, binary/program analysis, or compilers.
  • Established track record of published research at relevant conferences and journals.
  • Experience developing proposals and managing funded programs as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to work under limited supervision.
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