PhD Research in Cybersecurity
The Australian Technology Network of Universities

The Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) is seeking expressions of interest from Australian citizens with relevant qualifications who are interested in pursuing PhD degrees through its Industry Doctoral Training Centre (IDTC), in several areas of cybersecurity. The ATN Universities are: QUT (Brisbane), UTS (Sydney), RMIT (Melbourne), UniSA (Adelaide), Curtin (Perth).

The IDTC is an Australia-wide research training program where Masters and PhD students work on an external organisation's practical strategic challenge, as the main topic for their research degree. We focus on problems requiring analytics, data science, big data, computational sciences, and engineering solutions. The IDTC program is a four year PhD (or two year Masters) program, which also include training in broad technical and professional/transferable skills beyond the PhD or Master's Degree. Hence, these PhD projects will be done in partnership with external industry partners. Because of the requirements by the industry partners, students for these projects must be suitably qualified Australian citizens.

We are now seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified individuals who want to be considered for these projects.

Please note the following:

• Selection of successful applicants will be on competitive academic merit for scholarships-funding, and only students with Honours 1 with a research project component or Masters by Research qualifications in relevant areas should express interest.
• Provided suitable applicants are available, some projects will start in 2018. However, the ATN universities reserve the right not to proceed with any of the projects, or to initiate any projects at a later date.
• Enrolment will be at one of the five ATN universities. The expression of interest document allows you to nominate which project you are interested in, and your preferred ATN University.
• The scholarship funding will be at the typical Research Training Program funding level of about $27K pa in 2018 (indexed), although there will be some top-up funding from the industry partners.
• Candidates who are short-listed from this EOI process will be required to submit a full application at a later date.

For further information about the IDTC program in general, please go to http://www.atn.edu.au/idtc. To see a list of the available cybersecurity PhD projects and express your interest in one or more of them, and your preferred university, please go to https://www.atn.edu.au/industry-collaboration/IDTC/study-with-us/scholarships/idtc-cybersecurity/.