Research Associate

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE07 - £39,347 - £46,974 per annum**

**College of Science and Engineering - School of Informatics**

**Full time - 35 hours per week**

**Fixed term contract - 12 months
The researcher will work on multi-modal data including text and visual information to help with data efficient reinforcement learning and offline reinforcement learning. They will be part of the new Edinburgh Laboratory for Integrated Artificial Intelligence, the Bayesian and Neural Systems Group and the Autonomous Agents Research Group.

**The Opportunity**:
The School of Informatics is one of the largest research centres in Computer Science in Europe, and it has been ranked #1 in the UK in terms of research power by a large margin. Informatics, Edinburgh is world renowned in Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning, publishing in all the top venues in these fields. We are offering an exciting opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary, collaborative, friendly, and supportive environment, integrating different sub-fields of within Artificial Intelligence.

Akin to the idea that, for humans, reading the rules of e.g. a board game helps a person play that game better and more immediately than just doing random things and seeing what happens, in this project we consider the benefit of multimodal image and textual sources for data efficient RL. The researcher will be involved in deploying multimodal benchmarks for RL, and developing integrative models that can understand the implication of textual cues to aid understanding of the environment, the action space, the reward space, and the potential policy space. This method will utilise recent approaches in contrastive learning to aid this.

We welcome both local (UK-resident) and international applicants. This position will include funding for international travel - e.g., for attending conferences, visiting research collaborators, and disseminating research findings. Furthermore, the researcher will have access to the computing infrastructure and office spaces available within Informatics and the research groups.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- PhD (or near completion) or equivalent research experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning methods, machine learning in language processing, reinforcement learning or a related discipline.
- Experience and evidence of effective independent research work within a research team, and contribution to the team effort.
- Demonstrated quality of research performance, as evidenced by high-quality publications in top-tier machine learning / computer vision, RL or related venues (e.g., ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, UAI, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, and relevant journals (IEEE PAMI, JMLR among others). Strong programming skills; experience with Python and deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch or TensorFlow).

**Click to view a copy of the full **job description (opens new browser tab)**

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:

- A competitive salary of £39,347 - £46,974
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our **staff benefits page **(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

**Key dates to note

  • Research Associate

    4 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Grade UE07, salary range: £37,099 - £44,263pa** **College of Science and Engineering, School of Informatics** **Fixed-term, Full time (35 hours)** **Available for 30 months** **1 post available We are looking for a Research Associate. This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are also open to considering requests for...

  • Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a postdoc to undertake novel research at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning. The candidate will be based in Visual Computing Group ) and will be supervised by Dr. Hakan Bilen. There will be many collaborative opportunities both within the school as well as with...

  • Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a postdoc to undertake novel research at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning. The candidate will be based in Visual Computing Group (groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/vico) and will be supervised by Dr. Hakan Bilen. There will be many collaborative opportunities both within...

  • Research Associate

    6 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom Wood Mackenzie Full time

    Company Description Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making. Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector...

  • Senior Researcher

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom Red Tiger Consulting Full time

    Role: Senior Researcher / Associate Director Are you a seasoned researcher with a passion for property analysis? We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Researcher to join the team and play a pivotal role in a range of analytical work for clients. A proven track record in the execution of property research for clients, including market assessments,...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    7 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Grade UE07: £35,333 - £42,155 per annum** **COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING / SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY** **Full-time: 35 hours per week** **Fixed-term: 3 years / 1st October 2023 - **30th September 202 **6 /** Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, to work on the...

  • Research Associate

    7 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **UE07: £36,333.00 - £43,155.00 Per Annum** **College of Science and Engineering / School of Informatics** **Fixed-Term Contract: Full Time - 35 Hours per Week** **Fixed Term Contract until 30 **th **April 2024** A Postdoctoral Research Associate to work within the UKRI Research Node on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Governance and Regulation,...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    7 days ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Full time, Fixed term (24 months)We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate for a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months from July 2024 to work as part of the Edinburgh team on the John Templeton Foundation funded project "Functional Communication, Quality of Life, and Human Flourishing," with Principal Investigator: Dr Dan Mirman (Edinburgh).The...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    7 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Full time, Fixed term (24 months) We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate for a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months from July 2024 to work as part of the Edinburgh team on the John Templeton Foundation funded project “Functional Communication, Quality of Life, and Human Flourishing,” with Principal Investigator: Dr Dan Mirman...

  • Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Grade UE07: £37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)** **CAHSS / Edinburgh College of Art / School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA)** **Contract type: Full-time (35 Hours Per Week)** **Fixed term for 30 months** **The...

  • Associate Research Fellow

    3 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom Economicsnetwork Full time

    Full-time: 35 hours per week Fixed-term: for 3 years We are inviting applications for Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow positions (2 in Edinburgh/3 in Nottingham) to join an exciting new research programme (iBreed) funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a novel in vitro gametogenesis platform.The iBreed programme is a collaborative...

  • Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **The Opportunity**: The goal of this project is to develop novel techniques for training deep neural networks efficiently. This will involve generating data for training, sampling informative samples and designing data-efficient architectures for various vision models, and also vision-language models. - a brief statement of research interests (describing...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    6 days ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Contract Type - Fixed Term for 2 years, starting before September 2024Full Time - 35 Hours Per WeekThe Opportunity:We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of cometary science. The successful candidate will join the research group led by Prof Colin Snodgrass and Dr Cyrielle Opitom at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Full-time: 35 hours per weekFixed-term: for 3 years from 1st August, 2024We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in High-Pressure Neutron Diffraction.The Opportunity:Following a recent successful bid for funding from EPSRC we are seeking a PDRA to join the School's programme of neutron scattering studies of simple-molecular systems at megabar...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    6 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Contract Type - Fixed Term for 2 years, starting before September 2024 Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week The Opportunity: We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of cometary science. The successful candidate will join the research group led by Prof Colin Snodgrass and Dr Cyrielle Opitom at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the...

  • Research Associate in Causal AI

    5 days ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom Open Cpd Full time

    Contract type - Fixed term - 3 years Full time - 35 hours per week Posts x 4 The opportunity: The School of Engineering seeks to appoint four Research Associates in Causal AI.These Research Associate positions will contribute tothe EPSRC fundedCHAI AI Hub and the VIOS group at the University of Edinburgh. We are looking for enthusiastic postdoctoral...

  • Research Associate in Causal AI

    6 days ago

    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

    Contract type - Fixed term - 3 yearsFull time - 35 hours per weekPosts x 4The opportunity:The School of Engineering seeks to appoint four Research Associates in Causal AI. These Research Associate positions will contribute to the EPSRC funded CHAI AI Hub and the VIOS group at the University of Edinburgh.We are looking for enthusiastic postdoctoral...

  • Associate Research Fellow

    3 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom Economicsnetwork Full time

    Full time contract (35 hours per week), (28 hours per week is also an option) Fixed term (proposed start date: 1 st July 24, end date no later than 31 st August 26) We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate to join our team to work in the exciting field of ecoimmunology. This post forms part of a BBSRC-funded project titled “Disease...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

    **Grade UE07: £37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024).** **CMVM/The Roslin Institute/Functional Genetics.** **Fixed term: 13 months.** **Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.** We are looking for a post-doctoral research associate to join an established research...

  • Clinical Research Associate

    4 weeks ago

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom ICON plc Full time

    At ICON, it’s our people that set us apart. Our diverse teams enable us to become a better partner to our customers and help us to fulfil our mission to advance and improve patients’ lives. Our ‘Own It’ culture is driven by four key values that bring us together as individuals and set us apart as an organisation: Integrity, Collaboration, Agility...