Post doctor (2 years) within data privacy and machine learning

Umeå University • Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden • Posted June 08, 2026

Location Umeå, Västerbotten County
Job Type Temporary position
Category Postsecondary Teachers
Posted June 08, 2026

Project description

and working tasks

The project will develop privacy-aware machine learning (ML) models. We focus on data-driven models for complex and temporal data, including those built from synthetic sources. Within privacy, we are interested in different types of privacy measures and models (differential and integral privacy, k-anonymity), different scenarios (centralized and decentralized data; local and global privacy). For decentralized data, we consider federated learning. We are interested in privacy-preserving machine learning at a scale.

Research group

The Privacy-aware transparency decisions research group (led by Prof. Vicenç Torra) conducts research in data privacy for data to be used for machine and statistical learning. It is well known that data can be highly sensitive, and that naive anonymization is not sufficient to avoid disclosure. Models and aggregates can also lead to disclosure as they can contain traces of the data used in their...

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