Connectionists: Special Opportunity: PhD in AI for Sustainability at UH

[Daniel Polani]

Special Opportunity at the Future Societies Research Centre
University of Hertfordshire (UH), UK
Adaptive Systems Research Group (Head of Group: Daniel Polani)

AI for Sustainability
(Supervisors: Jan Kim and Daniel Polani)

PhD Studentship in AI for sustainability: When does a system collapse?
Are there early warning signs and possible intervention routes? Can AI
help us in answering these questions?

Application deadline soon: 19. May 2023

Understanding sustainability is crucial for the survival of humanity
as for the biological and ecological world.  Disappearance of
ecosystems, disintegration of food and other ecological or economical
webs are of central relevance.

We ask: are there any metrics and early warning signals that indicate
that control is lost over the integrity of a system? This PhD will
attack this question with modern methods from AI, including
empowerment.

It will characterise sustainability in a systematic/coherent way,
e.g. via the use of information theory. It will work to understand the
stability of ecosystems, the emergence of "tipping points" and how to
find potential intervention routes to salvage the system.

For the general application, see
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CXN980/three-fully-funded-phd-research-studentships-in-future-societies
for application information.

For a full description, search the subtopic "Sustainability, Tipping Points
and
Interventions in Ecosystems" on the page
https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-future-societies-research/phd-studentships-2023

(Deadline 19. May 2023)

The envisaged research will take place in the vibrant and enthusiastic
environment of the Adaptive Systems Research Group in the Department
of Computer Science in the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer
Science at the University of Hertfordshire. The university is located
in Hatfield, UK, less than 25 minutes by train from Kings Cross in
Central London.
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