[agents] Post doc position at the University of Southampton

[Nick Jennings]

Research Fellow on the ORCHID Project
University of Southampton, UK
https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=306713FP

Location:  Highfield Campus, Southampton, UK.
Salary:   £27,854 to £28,685 
Full Time Fixed Term (1 year)
Closing Date:   Friday 15 November 2013
Reference:  306713FP

The Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences at the University of Southampton currently has an excellent opportunity for two research fellows within its Electronics and Computer Science division.

Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton is the largest division of its kind in the UK and in the last Research Assessment Exercise (in 2008) Computer Science was ranked joint second in the UK for the quality of its research, with 85 per cent of its work being rated as either world leading or internationally excellent.

Applications are invited for Research Fellows in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group. You  will be working on a major collaborative interdisciplinary project that is seeking to apply novel computing techniques (particularly, intelligent agents, artificial intelligence, decentralised information systems, participatory systems and ubiquitous computing) within a range of challenging applications (including energy systems, disaster response and citizen science)  (http://www.orchid.ac.uk). In particular, the project explores how humans and intelligent agents can work together, as a human-agent collective, in a flexible and agile manner in order to achieve their individual and collective goals.

The posts will be based in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group (www.aic.ecs.soton.ac.uk). You will be working directly with Nick Jennings and Alex Rogers and will be joining an internationally renowned team applying techniques from game theory, mechanism design, trust and provenance, and multi-agent systems to a range of complex real-world problems.

You should possess a PhD in a relevant discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or Economics), or equivalent professional qualification and experience and have established a strong research pedigree in your area (as evidenced by publications in top quality journals and conferences). In particular, expertise in one or more of the following areas will be an advantage: multi-agent systems, machine learning, decision theory and/or artificial intelligence. Furthermore, you should also have a strong interest in the application of these techniques in challenging real-world contexts.

The posts will be for one year in the first instance, starting in Mar 2014 (although consideration can be given to later start dates).

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Nick Jennings (nrj at ecs.soton.ac.uk) or Professor Alex Rogers (acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk). 

Application procedure

You should submit completed application forms online at www.jobs.soton.ac.ukor alternatively telephone 023 8059 4048 if you experience difficulties. Please quote vacancy reference number 306713FP  on all correspondence.

The closing date for this post is 15 November 2013.

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Nick
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Professor Nick Jennings FREng, FIEEE
Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group    t: +44 (0) 23 8059 7681
Electronics and Computer Science            f: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton                   e: nrj at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.                   http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrj