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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">We have several posts to work with me and colleagues at the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals:<br>
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i) ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The interface between AI and sustainability is both academically
fascinating and essential to our future. We're looking for someone to join our team in the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121">Sustainable
Materials Innovation Hub led by Mike Shaver</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">and
the Centre for AI Fundamentals to help transform this interface. Got a background in AI and a passion for sustainability? Enthusiastic about saving our planet? We will be using<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121">–
for the first time – sustainability inputs to direct outcomes. Prior experience in sustainability or life cycle assessment is a plus but not required. (One Research Associate post available)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">ii) My UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Fellowship. We develop new principles and methods for Advanced User Modelling, sequential decision making and Automatic Experimental Design, with and without a Human-in-the-Loop. (One Research
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<span style="color:#212121">iii) The UKRI AI hub in Generative Models. Need we say more – we will develop principles and tools for the key technology that will continue to affect our lives. (One Research Associate post available)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">iv) PhD student positions in the UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems. Multiple home (UK only, sorry) student positions available. I have an exciting project on “Human-in-the-loop generative models for experimental
design” with Patrick Cai and Mingfei Sun, and “Learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts” with Omar Rivasplata.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Postdocs and research fellows (posts i-iii): DL June 27, 2024:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job/JobDetail?JobId=28777" title="https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job/JobDetail?JobId=28777"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job/JobDetail?JobId=28777</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">PhD students from UK (posts iv; home students only): DL June 17, 2024:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ai-decisions-cdt.github.io/hugo-pages/" title="https://ai-decisions-cdt.github.io/hugo-pages/"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://ai-decisions-cdt.github.io/hugo-pages/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Come join the fun at AI-FUN! (<a href="https://ai-fun.manchester.ac.uk"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://ai-fun.manchester.ac.uk</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>; apologies for the web pages – we have been
focusing more on research!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Samuel Kaski, Professor, University of Manchester and Aalto University</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Turing AI Fellow, ELLIS Fellow</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://kaski-lab.com" title="https://kaski-lab.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://kaski-lab.com</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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