Director – Data and Privacy Protection Technology

Our team has an immediate permanent opening for a Director

About the team:

The Data and Privacy Protection Technology Lab is dedicated to ensuring user data flows while maintaining privacy. Researchers focus on key areas such as user identity authentication, data integrity, privacy protection, extensive model privacy assessment, multi-modal data identification, differential privacy, and federated learning. The lab supports deep research and encourages publications in leading journals. Research outcomes are applied across various Huawei product lines, including mobile phones, smart devices, and communications technologies.

About the job:

• Responsible for the technical competitiveness of the company's data and privacy protection research, a breakthrough innovation in core technical fields such as applied cryptography and privacy protection technology.
• Responsible for providing technical insights, transforming them into the direction of technological evolution and formulating large-scale research directions.
• Responsible for lab team management, project operation, culture, and value inheritance, to achieve efficient operation of lab organization.
• Responsible for planning a strategy for technical research to drive and achieve the realization of the commercial potential.

About the ideal candidate:

• PhD in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Software Engineering or related field; with a strong focus on Data and Privacy Protection.
• Strong research background in applied cryptography and privacy protection technology.
• Industry-leading experience and an outstanding track record of research achievements in the field of data security.
• Experience in leading a team and project from project establishment, and mid-term review, to project completion.
• Experience in planning a strategy from technical research to commercial realization is an asset.

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