Dear all, please find below a vacancy for a Research Associate / Postdoc position in machine learning and knowledge representation at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=042892 Brief overview (more details in the link above): Data science provides many opportunities to improve private and public life, and it has enjoyed significant investment in the UK, EU and elsewhere. Discovering patterns and structures in large troves of data in an automated manner — that is, machine learning — is a core component of data science. It currently drives applications in computational biology, natural language processing and robotics. However, such a highly positive impact is coupled to a significant challenge: when can we convincingly deploy these methods in our workplaces? For example: (a) how can we elicit intuitive explanations from the decisions offered by these methods? (b) would these decisions be amenable to suggestions/preferences from non-expert users? (c) how can we provide correctness guarantees for the underlying computations? Such questions are clearly vital for appreciating the benefits of AI in human-machine collectives. The EPSRC project " Towards Robust Statistical AI: A Symbolic Approach” attempts first steps towards this direction, by building on: (1) State-of-the-art probabilistic inference techniques (2) Bayesian learning and statistical relational learning The position will be an opportunity to conduct research on questions such as those above, and demonstrate it on novel natural language processing / understanding problems. The post is full time and available from 1st June 2018 for 12 months. Informal enquiries can be addressed to: Vaishak Belle (vais...@ed.ac.uk) Closing Date: Wednesday 21st March 2018 at 5pm (GMT) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
