Research Fellow: LLM Safety & Biometric Authentication

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NTU Singapore invites applications for a Research Fellow to conduct research on LLM agent safety and secure authentication. The role emphasizes developing runtime monitoring and behavioural evaluation techniques for LLM agents.

The fellow will investigate biometric authentication for smartphones and wearables, design experiments, implement prototypes, and collaborate with NTU’s research teams to assess security and usability.

Qualifications

• PhD in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Security, Electronic or Communication Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Research background in LLM agent safety, runtime monitoring, biometric authentication or intelligent-device security.
• Familiarity with LLM agents and ability to implement prototypes and conduct rigorous experiments.
• Experience in biometric sensing or acoustic signal analysis would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop monitoring methods to detect malicious skill execution and unsafe or misaligned agent behaviour.
• Design experiments and prototypes to evaluate agent safety, task performance and monitoring overhead.
• Investigate biometric authentication for smartphones and wearable devices and evaluate security and usability.
• Analyse findings, prepare publications and project reports, as well as, collaborate with the research team.

Skills

LLM agent safety

Runtime monitoring

Biometric authentication

Intelligent-device security

Prototype development

Experiment design

Education

PhD in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Security, Electronic or Communication Engineering

Job description

NTU Singapore invites applications for a Research Fellow to conduct research on LLM agent safety and secure authentication. The role emphasizes developing runtime monitoring and behavioural evaluation techniques for LLM agents.

The fellow will investigate biometric authentication for smartphones and wearables, design experiments, implement prototypes, and collaborate with NTU’s research teams to assess security and usability.