Research Fellow

1 week ago

NTU Main Campus Singapore Nanyang Technological University Singapore Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to advance NTU's mission of pioneering cutting-edge research in blockchain and smart contract security. The successful candidate will have a strong background in blockchain systems, decentralized protocols, and smart contract vulnerability analysis, with demonstrated experience in system security and protocol robustness. Prior collaborations with leading institutions and expertise in secure distributed systems will be highly valued, enabling the candidate to bring transferable knowledge to address the security challenges in emerging blockchain ecosystems and decentralized applications.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct advanced research in the areas of blockchain security, smart contract analysis, and decentralized system resilience, with a focus on emerging threats in DeFi, cross-chain interoperability, and blockchain-based infrastructures.

  • Formulate novel research methodologies and contribute to the development of secure architectures and verification frameworks for next generation blockchain ecosystems.

  • Collaborate with academic and industry partners, including potential joint projects with institutions to drive interdisciplinary research outcomes.

  • Prepare high-quality research publications and contribute to proposal writing for competitive national and international research grants.

  • Support the supervision and mentorship of postgraduate students and junior researchers involved in security-related projects.

  • Disseminate research findings through conferences, invited talks, and outreach activities, strengthening NTU's leadership in infrastructure security R&D.

Job Requirements:

  • A PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline

  • Proven research track record demonstrated by publications in top-tier venues (e.g., IEEE S&P, Usenix Security, NDSS, CCS, ICSE, ASE, FSE, ISSTA, TSE, TOSEM) in the areas of blockchain security, smart contract analysis, program analysis or decentralized systems.

  • Demonstrated expertise in large language models (LLMs) and their application to software analysis, automated program repair, and security reasoning.

  • Experience in system-level security, protocol robustness, smart contract code auditing, cross chain behavior analysis and resilience of decentralized infrastructures and blockchain-based applications

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU

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