Research Assistant

3 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom University of Oxford Full time

The Oxford Internet Institute is a leading centre for research into the governance of emerging technologies.

Applications are invited from highly-qualified individuals for the position of Research Assistant to collaborate with Professor Brent Mittelstadt (Associate Professor), Professor Sandra Wachter (Professor of Technology and Regulation), and Dr Chris Russell (external collaborator) on the interpretability, transparency, and fairness in machine learning and AI.

The post will be part of the ‘Trustworthiness auditing in AI’ project, which will research and develop tools and tests to evaluate the efficacy of AI accountability tools. The project involves intensive multidisciplinary collaboration across machine learning, philosophy, clinical and social psychology, and law.

The post-holder will collaborate with Professor Brent Mittelstadt, Professor Sandra Wachter, Dr Chris Russell, Professor Netta Weinstein, and other project researchers from law, philosophy, and psychology to undertake case studies in medicine and open science, and develop a meta-toolkit for trustworthy AI. With Dr Chris Russell, the post-holder will undertake research and develop methods to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate different types of explanations of model outputs in meeting the needs of different audiences.

Excellent technical, analytic, and writing skills are essential. Expertise in machine learning, computer vision, human-computer interaction, or similar relevant areas, and prior experience with contributing to research publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences are highly desirable.

Full details of the duties and the requirements for this post can be found in the Job Description link below.
- Committed to equality and valuing diversity._


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