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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font>Dear all, </font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font>We are pleased to announce an open professor position at the University of Surrey:</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><a href="https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=14997" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,128)" target="_blank"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=14997</font></font></font></a></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Closing
Date:   Tuesday 30 September 2025</span></font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">The
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the
University of Surrey is seeking to recruit a Professor in Machine
Learning and AI with a focus on Large Machine Learning Models to
expand our dynamic team of internationally recognised AI faculty and
researchers. This is part of a strategic investment of 6 posts across
the School in AI, Cyber Security and Satellite Communications. </span></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>In
conjunction with the postholder, the School will also appoint a
Lecturer to support their research direction and strategy.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>The
School is home to two established research centres with expertise in
AI and Machine Learning: the Computer Science Research Centre (CSRC)
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>Surrey
has an established international reputation in AI research, 1st in
the UK for computer vision and top 5 for AI, computer vision, machine
learning, robotics 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 discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural and
engineering sciences, business, law and the creative arts to shape
future AI for the benefit of people and society. PAI leads a
portfolio of over £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>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:120%;background:transparent"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>The
candidate should have wide knowledge of the AI field and ideally
experience of working with industry. The candidate must have a proven
record of internationally recognised research contributions and
leading significant research programmes in AI and Machine Learning.
Current research in AI within the School focuses on solving
foundational and real-world problems in areas such as Natural
Language Processing, Optimisation, Audio and Vision, AI for Health
and Medical Applications, Robotics, and Security.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>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)" target="_blank"><font color="#0563c1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font><u>s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk</u></font></font></font></a><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>The
full advert, and application portal, is available at the link above.</font></font></font><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36)"> </span></p>
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<font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>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><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:120%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#242424"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font>Best wishes,</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Google Sans, Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font>Roman</font></font></font></p>
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<i><font size="1">Roman Bauer, Ph.D.<br>Senior Lecturer<br>Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Research Group<br>BioDynaMo Spokesperson<br>Computer Science Research Centre<br>University of Surrey<br>Guildford, UK</font></i></div>
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