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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">University
of Surrey</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Lecturer
in Natural Language Processing</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Salary
46,735 to 55,755 GBP</font></font></font></p>
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<a href="https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=009525" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=009525</font></font></font></a></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Closing
Date:   Wednesday 12 March 2025</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">The
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering is seeking to
recruit a full-time Lecturer in Natural Language Processing to grow
our AI research.  The School is home to two established research
centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Computer
Science Research Centre and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal
Processing (CVSSP). This post is aligned to the Nature Inspired
Computer and Engineering group within Computer Science.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">This
role encourages applicants from the areas of natural language
processing including language modelling, language generation (machine
translation/summarisation), explainability and reasoning in NLP,
and/or aligned multimodal challenges for NLP (vision-language,
audio-language, and so on) and we are particularly interested in
candidates who enhance our current strengths and bring complementary
areas of AI expertise.  </font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Surrey
has an established international reputation in AI research, 1st in
the UK for computer vision and top 10 for AI, computer vision,
machine learning and natural language processing (CSRankings.org) and
were 7th in the UK for REF2021 outputs in Computer Science research.
Computer Science and CVSSP are at the core of the Surrey Institute
for People-Centred AI (PAI), established in 2021 as a pan-University
initiative which brings together leading AI research with
cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and
engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to
shape future AI to benefit people and society. PAI leads a portfolio
of £100m in grant awards including major research activities in
creative industries and healthcare, and two doctoral training
programmes with funding for over 100 PhD researchers: the UKRI AI
Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion, and
the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital
Accessibility.   </font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Informal
inquiries can be directed to the Director of the Computer Science
Research Centre, Professor Steve Schneider at
</font></font></font><a href="mailto:s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk" style="color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font color="#0563c1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u>s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk</u></font></font></font></a><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">The
full advert, and application portal, is available at the link above.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:115%"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Our
staff and students come from all over the world and we are proud of
our friendly and inclusive culture. The University and the Department
specifically are committed to building a culturally diverse
organisation. Applications are strongly encouraged from female and
minority candidates.</font></font></font></p></div>