PhD position: Resilience for Industry 4.0

Updated: March 02, 2024 03:53 PM GMT

Full-time Job in Diepenbeek, Flanders

KU Leuven

Diepenbeek, Belgium

KU Leuven, located in Belgium, is among the top European universities and conducts both basic and applied research. Within KU Leuven, the Faculty of Engineering Technology organizes bachelor and master degrees in Engineering Technology on six campuses across Flanders, Belgium. This vacancy is situated at campus Diepenbeek at the intersection of the research groups DistriNet (expertise in secure and distributed software engineering) and ACRO (expertise in robotics, computer vision, and automation).

Project

The traditional, isolated environment of industrial installations is rapidly evolving towards always-connected Industry 4.0 facilities, which comes with opportunities but also with serious security risks. Your goal in this PhD project is to improve the resilience of Industry 4.0 systems through the development of innovative technologies to design and monitor systems and respond to potential threats. In particular, based on existing or newly collected datasets, you will investigate... More Detail