Research Assistant

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Department
Department of Computing
Rank
Research Assistant/Associate
Position type
Full-time
Reference
260714024
Application deadline
21 Jul 2026

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Assist the project leader in researching price manipulation mitigation in Ethereum decentralized finance applications.
  • Conduct research and engineering on software and blockchain security.
  • Design, implement and deploy scalable security analysis frameworks and software systems.
  • Develop automated analysis, testing, and evaluation pipelines using program analysis, fuzzing, differential testing and AI-assisted software analysis.
  • Contribute to open-source software, prototype deployment, benchmarking and research publications.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering or related discipline.
  • Experience in software security, program analysis, software testing and/or fuzzing.
  • Strong programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Go or Python.
  • Preference given to those with experience building research prototypes or software systems.

Appointment

  • Contract — three months

Key Dates

  • Not specified
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