Postdoctoral researcher in Secure AI-Assisted Software Engineering

KU Leuven is a leading European research university with a strong international orientation. Within the Department of Computer Science, DistriNet is an internationally recognised research group focusing on secure, distributed and dependable software systems. The iDeas research team within DistriNet specialises in secure software engineering, vulnerability detection and prediction, visual analytics, and the responsible integration of AI in software development.

Responsibilities

The postdoctoral researcher will work on a multi-year applied research project on the safe and responsible integration of AI code assistants (, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, open-source LLMs) in professional software engineering workflows. The research focuses on analysing security and quality risks of AI-generated code, developing guardrails using static and dynamic analysis tools, improving prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation techniques, and ensuring tracea...