AI4CI Jobs
Post-doc and PhD Positions
Join the AI4CI Hub!
The Hub has multiple Post-doc positions and PhD positions available across its partner universities. We are looking for researchers with a wide range of skills and experience across AI, machine learning, data science, statistics, mathematics, human-computer interaction, systems design and human factors, as well as in domains such as finance, the environment, pandemics, healthcare and smart cities.
Overview
The AI4CI Hub pursues research across five applied research themes and two cross-cutting research themes.
Each theme’s research team is made up of academics, postdocs, PhD students and stakeholder partners. Some theme teams are located at one University and some are spread across two. The themes pursue specific case study research projects, but are also tightly integrated together so that they can learn from and support each other.
Each opportunity listed below is associated with a specific academic theme lead. Feel free to contact the academic related to the post or posts that you are interested in. General queries should be directed to the Hub’s email address.
For further information, please see the job specification associated with each post, and the general information below.
Postdoc Positions
University of Bristol
PDRA in Healthcare Ecosystems
Working under: Dr. Aisling O’Kane, School of Computer Science
Apply: via the University of Bristol recruitment portal.
Deadline: 31st October 2024
Description: This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled, motivated and talented postdoctoral researcher to join the UKRI National AI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) to conduct research on healthcare technologies embedded in complex care ecosystems. Opportunities to work on different healthcare ecosystem projects being pursued by the hub will be available, but the main focus will be on supporting people with diabetes to choose their self-care and shared-care technology ecosystem via co-design/participatory design
Cardiff University
PDRA in Financial Stability
Working under: Prof. Maggie Chen, School of Mathematics
Apply: via the Cardiff University recruitment portal.
Deadline: Applications will open autumn/winter 2024. Watch this space.
Description: [Watch this space]
University of Exeter
PDRFs in Environmental Intelligence
Working under: Prof. Hywel Williams, Computer Science
Apply: via the University of Exeter recruitment portal.
Deadline: 27th October 2024
Description: University of Exeter seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in the “environmental intelligence” theme of the AI for Collective Intelligence hub.
University of Ulster
PDRA in AI Infrastructure and Governance
Working under: Prof. Michaela Black, School of Computing, Engineering & Intelligent Systems
Apply: via the University of Ulster recruitment portal.
Deadline: Applications are not yet open for this post
Description: [Watch this space]
University of Ulster
PDRA in AI Infrastructure and Governance
Working under: Prof. Joan Condell, School of Computing, Engineering & Intelligent Systems
Apply: via the University of Ulster recruitment portal.
Deadline: Applications are not yet open for this post.
Description: [Watch this space]
PhD Positions
For more information on individual PhD’s please contact the lead academic directly. Their contact information is available by clicking on their name below:
University of Glasgow
PhD in Smart Cities
Working under: Prof. Alison Heppenstall, School of Social & Political Sciences
Apply: via the University of Glasgow recruitment portal
Deadline: 8th November 2024
Description: The PhD will be based within the Urban Analytics subject. It is part of the Smart Cities spoke of the AI4CI Artificial Intelligence Hub. The PhD student will work alongside PDRAs at Glasgow and at UCL. The external supervisor is Professor Adam Dennett at CASA, UCL. This PhD would suit a candidate with a strong computational background as this PhD will involve programming
More Information
The AI4CI Hub will pursue cutting edge research at the intersection between the fields of applied AI and Collective Intelligence, working with many academic and non-academic stakeholder partners from across relevant sectors: from AI software companies and start-ups to FinTech firms, NHS trusts, city modelling labs and local and national government departments and agencies.
Each theme within the Hub features distinctive research questions and methods. Challenges that cut across the themes include federated and privacy preserving machine learning, anomaly and change point detection, trust and transparency, algorithmic fairness and AI safety.
Our mission is to pioneer national scale AI for UK collective intelligence, i.e., to develop AI, machine learning and intelligent agent approaches that extract valuable insights from parallel streams of data derived from large-scale populations and use these insights to inform high-level national policy and strategy, but also to deliver bespoke guidance to individual members of these populations, e.g., helping people to understand and manage risk during a pandemic, or to make effective financial investment decisions, or improve city planning outcomes, or manage a long-term health condition like diabetes.
This is an extremely challenging goal; one which we expect to require intense inter-disciplinary research collaboration amongst people with diverse skills and experience. Consequently, we are looking to hire people from a wide variety of backgrounds, from AI, machine learning, data science, complex systems and mathematical modelling and to human factors and systems design, and from urban analytics, fintech and digital health to environmental and epidemiological modelling.
Successful candidates will be interested in researching innovative combinations of AI, machine learning, collective intelligence and system design and have a strong commitment to pursuing applied research in a collaborative and inter-disciplinary setting.
Come and Join an Amazing Research Team!
The AI4CI Research Hub
The AI4CI Research Hub is a reserach collaboration that brings together leading research groups from the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Ulster and UCL to form an integrated centre of gravity for a growing nationwide activity combining innovative research and development, community and capacity building, career development, public engagement, research translation, policymaking and governance organised around a clear central theme: new AI for Collective Intelligence.
Contact Us
If you are interested in joining the Hub's research effort, or want to find out more please get in touch.