CYBER SECURITY, ESCALATION, AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT POSTDOC

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• 1 Postdoctoral Fellow in Cyber Security, Escalation, and International Conflict position will be available for 2022-2023. OPEN UNTIL FILLED.                                   

• cPASS is hiring two Postdoctoral Fellow in Cyber Security, Escalation, and International Conflict. The postdoctoral fellows will assist in a Hewlett Foundation-funded project on “CyberEscalation in Power Projection.” This project focuses on understanding how humans and their institutions interact with technology to better assess how the introduction of a new kind of connectedness through cyberspace shapes decisions concerning power projection. This project hopes to overcome the challenges for young scholars interested in cyber escalation by investing in building expertise and creating quality data to test theories. 

• These postdoctoral fellows will collaborate with the Machine-learning for Social Science Lab to create a foundational dataset of cyber events that is focused on basic scientific standards and is transparent, replicable, and reproducible. The postdoctoral fellows will also work with cPASS staff to develop the Cyber Escalation Lab and build a community dedicated to cyber escalation topics. 
• FOR MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY: Click here

cPASS hopes that graduate students will be inspired to think about political conflict broadly in ways that treat means as part of the process, rather than simply as an exogenous solution.  Even those without a substantive interest in security may find it appealing to plug into some of the methodological work that we are beginning to undertake. We hope to build a community of scholars who can educate and help each other throughout their careers.

Not only can we involve students in the research cPASS is already doing, but we will make resources available to support students in the development of their own research agendas. Many of our graduate students conduct field research during their time at UC San Diego, spending six months in Washington, DC or ten months in Beijing. cPASS will soon be supporting these efforts by offering $5000 grants for selected projects. These grants will make it easier for graduate students to run pilot studies and discover research questions that will enable them to pursue larger grants through the National Science Foundation or Fulbright-Hayes Program on their own.

• Carcelli, Shannon and Erik Gartzke. “Blast from the Past: Updating and Diversifying Deterrence Theory” Journal of Global Security Studies (under review).
• Gartzke, Erik, Shannon Carcelli, Andres Gannon, and Jiakun J. Zhang. “Signaling in Foreign Policy” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, ed. Cameron Thies (Oxford University Press, 2017).
• Gartzke, Erik, Shannon Carcelli, and Jeffrey Kaplow. “Nuclear Arms Regime Dataset.” Paper presented at International Studies Association Annual Conference, February 2017.
• Zhang, Jiakun, and Jon Lindsay. “The Commercial Peace in Space and Cyberspace: Cautious Optimism about US-China Relations.” Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2016.
• Gannon, Andres, Erik Gartzke, and Jon Lindsay. “After Deterrence: Explaining Conflict Short of War.” Paper presented at the CDD Annual Workshop, August 2017.
• Gannon, Andres. “You Cruise, You Lose: An Analysis of US Cruise Missile Usage” Working paper.

• Deterring Complex Threats: The Effects of Asymmetry, Interdependence, and Multi-polarity on International Strategy, Santa Barbara, CA (Sept ‘15)
• Deterrence Across Domains, Borrego Springs, CA (Jan ‘16)
• Social Media in Forecasting, La Jolla, CA (May ‘16)
• New Look at 21st Century Deterrence, Washington, DC (May ‘16)
• DOD Annual Minerva Meeting and Program Review, Washington,DC (Sept ‘16)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘16)
• ISAC-ISSS, Notre Dame, IN (Nov ‘16)
• Annual Homeland Defense and Security Education Summit, Arlington, VA (March‘17)
• West Coast International Relations of East Asia, Los Angeles, CA (April‘17)
• SMA Conference, Joint Base Andrews, MD (April ‘17)
• Political Networks Conference, Columbus, OH (June ‘17)
• CDD Annual Workshop, San Francisco, CA (August ‘17)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘17)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘18)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘19)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘20)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘21)
• ISA – West, Los Angeles, CA (Sept ‘22)
• USC-UCSD Research Exchange Workshop, Los Angeles, CA ('19, '21, '22)
• Bridging Asia Conference, Korean Studies Institute, KSI, Los Angeles, CA ('21, '22)

• Rupal Mehta, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Jeff Kaplow, College of William and Mary
• Blake McMahon, Air War College
• Peter Schram, Vanderbilt University
• Jiakun Jack Zhang, University of Kansas
• Shannon Carcelli, University of Maryland

cPASS also provides motivated UCSD undergraduate students with paid research assistantships at the center. These opportunities provide undergraduates with hands-on experience with academic research and develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in their future careers. The program also increases the research productivity of the center and enables graduate students to develop the sort of mentoring experience that will help them become better faculty members later in their careers.

• Information will be posted here when positions are available

Please email cPASS@ucsd.edu if you are interested in any of the following opportunities:

Careers with U.S. Strategic Command:
http://www.stratcom.mil/About/Employment/Entry/

Student Opportunities with Cybercom:
https://career.cybercom.com/departments/student-trainee 

Student Programs with the United States Intelligence Community:
https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/icstudents.html

Internships with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
http://scholars-llnl.ttcportals.com/pages/additional  

The University of California, San Diego's Summer Training Academy for Research Success (STARS) program is an eight week summer research academy for students. STARS offers student participants a rigorous research opportunity with esteemed UCSD Faculty.

See below for an example of a STARS student's presentation from this program:

Alejandro Robles 2018 STARS Presentation