Connectionists: ML Lecturer/Reader (Asst/Assoc Prof), Informatics, U Edinburgh, 14 Jan deadline

[Chris Williams]

[please direct informal enquiries to Prof Iain Murray, i.murray at ed.ac.uk]

Dear all,

We welcome applications to the following machine learning faculty position:

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/mljob

Deadline: 14 January 2021, 5pm UTC


Applications are invited for a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader in Machine Learning at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, as part of substantial University expansion in machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. A lectureship is a full-time academic position roughly equivalent to an assistant professorship in other countries; senior lecturer and reader are roughly equivalent to associate professor.

We seek candidates with research interests in the development of cutting-edge machine learning methods. Candidates will have a research interests in principled approaches to machine learning, novel developments in deep learning, machine learning for new or important tasks, and/or the development of novel methods of wide applicability and with state-of-the-art capability.

The University of Edinburgh has one of the largest academic machine learning research groups in Europe. We also benefit from close links to groups in Maths and Statistics, and other active areas of artificial intelligence in the School, including natural language processing, speech processing, robotics, and computer vision.

The School of Informatics is host to the UKRI/EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training in Data Science, in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, in Natural Language Processing, and in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. The adjacent Thomas Bayes Centre for Data Technology is the home for data-driven applied and translational research at Edinburgh. The University is one of the five founding partner universities in the UK's Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, providing opportunities to interact with Turing PhD students, research fellows and senior researchers. In addition, the University has just established one of the first ELLIS units, which are recognized centres of excellence in AI research across Europe. In addition, there are many opportunities to engage with other parts of the University and beyond in order to further the candidate's research agenda.

The successful candidate(s) will have a PhD; experience as an established researcher in the theory and application of machine learning methods; enthusiasm to undertake original research including leading a research group; ability to engage with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and academic supervision.

Lecturer Grade: UE08 (£41,526 - £49,533)
Senior Lecturer or Reader Grade: UE09 (£52,559 - £59,135)

Deadline: 14 January 2021, 5pm UTC

For full details and to apply, see:
https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/mljob
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