UE07: £40,247.00 - £47,874.00 Per Annum.
CSE / School of Informatics.
Fixed Term Contract - 2 Years.
Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The School of Informatics is seeking a Research Associate in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence for Assistive Technology. This post will be part of the Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy, a mission-driven research centre established using a UKRI Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship awarded to Prof Subramanian Ramamoorthy.
The Opportunity:
The post-holder will be part of a foundations team within the Centre, whose focus will be on fundamental investigations into generative modelling of the full stack of human behaviour, from sensorimotor control to higher level cognitive decision making, to enable the development of person-centred and teachable autonomous systems within domains including assistive technologies for activities of daily living, task level autonomy in surgical robotics and autonomous vehicles.
In addition to the Centre Director (Ramamoorthy), the post holder will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in a wide range of specialties across the University, including in machine learning and vision (e.g. Fisher, Mac Aodha, Bilen, Sevilla-Lara, Vergari), probabilistic programming (e.g. Narayanaswamy, Kammar, Belle), natural language understanding and interaction (e.g. Lascarides, Lapata, Gal), computational cognitive science and neuroscience (e.g. Lucas, Hennig, Nolan, Rajendran), as well as in robotics and neurotechnology (e.g. Vijayakumar, Nazarpour) and engineering of novel sensing and devices (Prodromakis, Koutsos, Amjadi). Beyond the university, the Centre will pursue collaborations with international teams including at The University of Texas at Austin (Stone), Stanford University (Kochenderfer), University of Bremen (Beetz) and Monash University (Burke).
The Centre will also have a strong industrial partner network, including Fourier Intelligence, Honda Research Europe, Shadow Robot, Sony Europe and other organisations who will be engaged in the Centre’s work at all stages, with the expectation that this network grows over time as the Centre’s work grows and begins to have broader impacts.
The central purpose of the job is to carry out research on Human-centred Artificial Intelligence methods for novel assistive technologies.
Within the Centre, we envision the use of neurotechnology, wearables and other non-contact sensors (e.g. motion capture) for comprehensively understanding human behaviour in embodied contexts such as activities of daily living. The post holder will work closely with these technologies to collect new datasets from cohort studies, combining these with other publicly available data sources, to then learn human behaviour models for use in assistive technology. It is also expected that the post holder will work closely with domain experts, such as in health and social care, to quantify assistive ability and understand factors driving trustworthiness and adoption.
The candidate is expected to take intellectual ownership of core scientific questions in this space, developing new ideas and driving collaborative projects towards significant publications, leveraging the expertise of the supervision team and other scientific collaborators.
It is also expected that the post holder will contribute to the development of new assets in the form of data and model libraries as well as experimental platforms for assistive technology. This will form the basis for collaboration with other researchers focussing on developing applications within domain-specific laboratories, and industrial partners aligned with these application areas.
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For informal enquiries, please contact Prof Ramamoorthy- [email protected]
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
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Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 10 January 2025.
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