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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>PHD POSITION AT KU LEUVEN: UNCERTAINTY-AWARE MACHINE LEARNING FOR RISK MITIGATION IN SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The DTAI research group (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be" data-outlook-id="90605bf2-8232-4202-9471-d63c02968b85" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">)
embedded within the M-Group (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://iiw.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/m-group" data-outlook-id="9df87793-2687-4b6d-b930-8c57d3149291" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://iiw.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/m-group</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">)
at KU Leuven Bruges Campus has an open PhD </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">position on AI Safety</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">This PhD research will focus on uncertainty-aware machine learning models, developing and evaluating
techniques (e.g., Bayesian and interval neural networks) to quantify model uncertainty and monitor it during operation. This means creating and testing methods to assess how confident a model is in its predictions and using this information to detect and mitigate
risks in real time. The work will concentrate on deep learning for vision and time-series tasks. The findings will be validated and demonstrated on realistic industry-grade demonstrator setups for both time series and vision.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The full job description, including an elaborate description of the topic, the profile and the offer
can be found via </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60599754" data-outlook-id="59f54cd1-9331-4f9c-b2ea-73bbb73a13f8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60599754</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Contact for further information:</b> Prof. dr. Mathias Verbeke (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:mathias.verbeke@kuleuven.be" title="mailto:mathias.verbeke@kuleuven.be" data-outlook-id="61a938c1-2abf-4e41-8f2e-52cb1f8ca95b" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">mathias.verbeke@kuleuven.be</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">)
and dr. Laurens Devos.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Mathias Verbeke</span></p>
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