PhD Position: Secure Multi-Stakeholder 6G Orchestration
OpenApplication Deadline: November 1, 2026
6G services will not run on infrastructure you own. They will run across operators, cloud providers, and third parties who each have reasons not to trust the others — and something still has to decide where the workload goes.
That is this PhD. How do you find a hardware root of trust and keep hold of it while a service migrates? How do you keep attesting a node that is already carrying live traffic? Where do you cut an AI workload when half of it lands on someone else's hardware? And once the orchestrator has made a call, can anyone check it afterwards?
You will build it rather than simulate it — extending open-source orchestration platforms and running them on real 6G infrastructure. Four years, starting with 1.5 and a progress check at 15 months.
Applications close 1 November 2026. Worth sending Nitinder Mohan a short note before you apply.
Research Focus Areas:
Requirements:
- MSc in computer science or a closely related discipline
- Strong academic record and fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Both theoretical grounding and hands-on systems implementation skills
- Creative, independent approach and appetite for open-ended research
Responsibilities:
- Design and build orchestration systems for distributed 6G services across infrastructure that cannot be fully trusted
- Investigate discovery and allocation of hardware roots of trust across service migrations
- Develop continuous node attestation while nodes are actively serving traffic
- Place split AI workloads across trust boundaries
- Make orchestration decisions auditable after the fact
- Extend open-source orchestration platforms and validate on experimental 6G infrastructure