UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: Analysis Fellow in Accountable AI

Brokers, Interplay & Complexity

Location:  Highfield Campus

Wage:   £34,980 to £42,978 Each year

Full Time Fastened Time period for two years

Closing Date:  Thursday 09 Might 2024

Interview Date:   To be confirmed

Reference:  2682224FP

At Southampton, you’ll be part of an internationally famend and multi-disciplinary group led by Professor Gopal Ramchurn. You’ll be based mostly within the Brokers, Interplay, and Complexity Analysis group, which is residence to Accountable AI UK (rai.ac.uk) a £31M strategic funding by UKRI, and a part of the Faculty of Electronics and Pc Science. 

The function will contain a core give attention to AI research (machine learning, multi-agent methods, causal AI, optimisation), together with participation in a spread of multidisciplinary research initiatives that won’t solely embrace growing AI methods for good functions/makes use of, however transferring past that by addressing the sustainability of growing and utilizing AI methods in and of themselves. 

The multidisciplinary research will probably be targeted on addressing the entire sociotechnical system of AI. It’s going to contain accountable design, improvement and deployment of AI methods which will probably be appropriate with sustaining environmental assets for present and future generations; financial fashions for societies; and societal values which are elementary to a given society. Some potential purposes are healthcare, transportation, defence and security, and creative industries amongst others.

You’ll work as a part of or lead multi-disciplinary groups from throughout the RAI UK programme. 

To achieve success you should have:

• PhD in a discipline associated to one of many following: Deep studying, Explainable AI, Causal reasoning.
• A robust publication document in AI venues (NeurIPS, AAMAS, ECAI, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, Journal of Machine Studying Analysis).
• Display expertise or curiosity in interdisciplinary research, going past customary engineering and computer science fields.
• Demonstrable capability to current work clearly each in written kind and orally.

Equality, variety and Inclusion is central to the ethos within the Faculty of Electronics and Pc Science. We significantly encourage girls, Black, Asian and minority ethnic, LGBT and disabled candidates to apply for this place. We’re dedicated to enhancing equality for girls in science and have been profitable in reaching an Athena SWAN bronze award in April 2020.   We give full consideration to candidates that want to work flexibly together with part-time and due consideration will probably be given to candidates who’ve taken a profession break. The College has a beneficiant maternity coverage*, onsite childcare services

The College of Southampton is within the prime 1% of world universities and within the prime 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. The College of Southampton is dedicated to sustainability and being a globally accountable college and has lately been awarded the Platinum EcoAward.  This commits all of our employees and college students to take duty for managing their actions to minimise hurt to the surroundings, whether or not this by means of switching off non-essential electrical tools or utilizing the recycling services.

 *topic to qualifying standards

Purposes for Analysis Fellow positions will probably be thought of from candidates who’re inside six months of a related PhD qualification.  The title of Analysis Fellow will probably be utilized upon profitable completion of the PhD.  Previous to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Analysis Assistant will probably be given.