A unified formal framework for provably correct safety-security risk analysis

Position: Post-doctoral research contract Institute: Uni. Urbino
Posted on: 22/05/2026 Deadline: 11/06/2026

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

01/INFO-01 - Informatics

Description

The rapid integration of AI-driven decision-making and software-managed infrastructure has rendered the traditional dichotomy between safety (unintentional faults) and security (adversarial attacks) obsolete. In modern cyber-physical systems, system defects and malicious exploits are no longer isolated events; they interact and cascade. Current risk assessment frameworks remain siloed, failing to capture these critical interdependencies and the inherent trade-offs between resilience and efficiency. The objective of this project is to bridge the safety-security divide through a unified analytical framework capable of processing cross-domain risk queries with mathematical rigor. This must be achieved by synthesizing three distinct pillars: formal ontology, interactive theorem proving, and model checking. At the theoretical level, the project will establish a shared, ontology-backed vocabulary to standardize the core components of risk reasoning.

Number of positions

1

Funding body

Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo – DISPEA

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