Postdoctoral Research Fellow (A) Full-time

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (A)

Research Fellow in Machine-Learning Enabled Digital Forensics

Fixed term, full-time 36-month position available

We are seeking a Research Fellow with experience in machine learning research and development, particularly with a specialisation in such areas as: digital forensics, computer vision, biometrics (face or voice recognition, etc.) and natural language processing.

The Research Fellow will join a multi-institutional team of researchers involved in an ARC Linkage Project (LP240200944) that will deliver new digital forensic capabilities for police – particularly in the context of enhancing child sexual abuse investigations. This work will be delivered in partnership with South Australia Police, the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, and Deakin University.

About the Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory

The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is an interdisciplinary team of researchers and based at the University of Adelaide, with partners around the world. We are involved in a wide range of research projects that seek to understand why individuals engage in cybercrime, and develop tools to prevent, detect and investigate cybercrimes. Our work aims to inform public policy, and promote safe digital environment.

To be successful you will need:

• A PhD in Forensic Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Criminology or related area (or near completion).
• A record of high-quality research outputs, including publications, commensurate to opportunity.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python, including data handling and backend development.
• Demonstrated experience developing applications interfacing with machine learning libraries like PyTorch or ONNX.
• Demonstrated experience working with large-scale data processing and deployment (local and cloud) including SQL database technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to represent complex data findings into simple, compelling visualisations and narratives for non-technical users.

This position requires a National Police Clearance and SA Working with Children Check.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

We offer a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs – including significant industry, government and community collaboration – offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.