Security, privacy, & cryptography
Developing technologies that protect data, preserve privacy, and build trustworthy computing systems.
Project
Proof-based general-purpose computing
General-purpose cryptographic proof systems enable the following. A program runs, and along with its output it produces a short proof, a cryptographic certificate that this program, on these inputs, produced this output. The proof is…
Podcast
Learn the rules: The hacker mindset
Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules.
Career Opportunity
Cambridge Internship Program Azure Research, Security and Privacy
Security and privacy are among the most significant concerns for enterprises and consumers using public cloud and AI platforms. Azure Research is conducting pioneering research in the design and analysis of systems that guarantee strong…
Career Opportunity
Member of Technical Staff – Senior AI Security Researcher
As a Member of Technical Staff, you will research adversarial AI-agent systems, with an emphasis on coordinated and swarm-like behavior. You will build instrumented environments to characterize campaigns, identify behavioral signatures, trace provenance, and evaluate…
Career Opportunity
Member of Technical Staff – Senior AI Security Researcher
As a Member of Technical Staff (Senior AI Security Researcher), you will post-train open-weight language models for cybersecurity tasks, including using recursive self-improvement. You will develop and curate training datasets, define training objectives, implement post-training…
Career Opportunity
Research Intern – MSR Systems Research Group – Redmond
The Systems Research Group in Microsoft Research is devoted to advancing the state of the art in distributed systems and operating systems. Our aim is to make systems scalable, fault-tolerant, manageable, fast, efficient, and verifiably…
Career Opportunity
Member of Technical Staff – Senior Security Researcher
We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff (Senior Security Researcher) with demonstrated, national security, Chinese AI model, cybersecurity and agents testing experience for our team. Our mission is to innovate cutting edge AI…