HiWi for a new research project

Student Research Assistant (m/f/d) – Tooling for Literature References in Security Research

The Project

Publishing research requires correctly citing prior work.
In practice, these citations often contain various kinds of errors.
This project investigates how accurate citations are in security research publications.
We are also interested in whether the use of LLMs has had an impact on the number and type of such errors.

Your Tasks as a Student Assistant

• Develop tools to automatically extract references from scientific papers
• Automatically check extracted references against external databases (e.g., DOI services, publishers, BibTeX sources)
• Analyze mismatches between reported references and actually found citations
• Support the evaluation and preparation of results (e.g., for reports, visualizations, or publications)

Your Profile

• Enrolled student in computer science, IT security, or a related field
• Programming experience, ideally with Python
• Some experience with data science tooling (e.g., Pandas or Polars) is an advantage
• You have at least heard of containers such as Docker or Podman and are willing to work with them
• You work carefully and independently and are interested in research topics around security and the scientific publication process

Conditions

• Position: Student research assistant (m/f/d)
• Working hours: by agreement, e.g., 8–16 hours per week
• Start date: by agreement
• Duration: initially limited (e.g., 6–12 months), with the option to extend
• Place of work: primarily on site at the institute, partial remote work by arrangement

Application

If you are interested in working at the intersection of security research, data analysis, and tooling, we look forward to your application.
Please send a short email including your CV and current transcript of records to:
fahl@sec.uni-hannover.de

We welcome applications from all genders and backgrounds and are committed to a non-discriminatory hiring process.