Lecturer or Reader in Hybrid Artificial Intelligence

4 days ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Lecturer or Reader in Hybrid Artificial Intelligence**

**Lecturer: UE08 £43,414 - £51,805 per annum**

**Reader: UE09 £54,949- £61,823 per annum**

**School of Informatics, Science and Engineering**

**Full-time (35 hours per week), Open-ended**

Applications are invited for an academic position in Hybrid Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. This post is part of a continuing drive to expand our research on the combination of symbolic reasoning and machine learning.

**The Opportunity**:
The University of Edinburgh is one of the five founding partners of the UK's Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. This provides opportunities to interact with PhD students, research fellows and senior researchers. In addition, the School of Informatics is a member of the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence in Europe (CLAIRE). There are also ample opportunities within the University to pursue and drive collaborative activities with researchers in other areas of computer science, mathematics, and across the physical, social and biomedical sciences.

For this post, areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Theoretical foundations of hybrid/neurosymbolic AI;
- Integration of structured domain knowledge into and querying of neural learning via symbolic/logic representation and reasoning;
- Formal verification applied to neural networks and deep learning;
- Applications of hybrid/neurosymbolic AI to complex domains such as safe robotics, medicine, health and care.

We recognise that the pandemic may have affected some applicants disproportionately and aim to take this into account in the selection process. Applicants can optionally include a short statement regarding how their work has been disrupted by Covid, and how this affects their recent track record. This statement should be part of the cover letter and should not exceed one paragraph in length.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
**UE08 Lecturer**:

- PhD or equivalent (such as extensive industry experience), and experience as an established academic in Machine Learning or a related field
- Ability to undertake original research, including leading a research group.
- Ability to attract research funding as an independent researcher.
- A track record of first author and/or collaborative publications in high quality journals and international conferences.
- Strong relevant research and teaching skills.
- Effective written and oral communication skills in a range of contexts (e.g. teaching, research presentations and publications).
- Ability to contribute to teaching on a range of non-Honours courses as well as in more specialist areas of machine learning.

The ability to engage with a range of teaching mediums including online and distance learning.

**Click here for a copy of the full job description for position of Lecturer**

**UE09 Reader**:as above and including:

- Proven ability to provide leadership for activities in delivering the School’s objectives.
- Extensive experience in research, postgraduate supervision and teaching.
- Proven ability to foster and embed a strong student-focused culture.
- Evidence of significant achievement in the relevant field through (e.g.) successful knowledge transfer from research to academic community, public, private and/or voluntary sectors and general public; the receipt of prestigious prizes and awards; membership of national and international bodies relevant to the research field.
- Experience of managing, motivating and developing research staff, students and projects
- .*PhD must be completed for a Reader appointment. _

**Click here for a copy of the full job description for position of Reader**

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research a



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