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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Location: <b>Highfield Campus</b></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
<span style="color:black;background:white">Salary: <b>£31,406 to £38,587 Per annum</b></span><br>
<b><span style="color:black;background:white">Full Time Fixed Term (12 months)</span></b><br>
<span style="color:black;background:white">Closing Date: <b>Wednesday 09 March 2022</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The roles will be part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (TAS Hub). The Hub is led by the University of Southampton with
partners from the University of Nottingham and King’s College London. TAS Hub is the focal point of the £33m UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems programme (for more details see
<a href="http://www.tas.ac.uk">www.tas.ac.uk</a>)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">You will undertake independent research as well as working as part of a team - this will include using approaches or methodologies and
techniques appropriate to the type of research, and being responsible for writing up your work in order to contribute to published outcomes. There will be the opportunity to use creativity to identify areas for research, develop research methods and extend
your research portfolio.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">As the research will need to generalise across more than one application domain (e.g., healthcare, autonomous vehicles, IoT, etc..)
this offers the opportunity to collaborate with partners from across the TAS Hub and the wider TAS programme (i.e., the 60+ TAS hub industrial partners and the TAS Nodes) and undertake industry placements.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">To take advantage of these opportunities you will have a PhD or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in one of the
following areas:- Machine Learning, Natural Language processing, and Speech Processing. As work will need to be carried out in a multi-disciplinary setting involving experts and researchers from fields such as healthcare, law, engineering, business, and policy
- it is important that you are able to communicate research outputs in a way that is understandable and useful to researchers from diverse disciplines.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The candidates will have experience in Machine Learning (with applications to computer vision, speech or signal processing), Reinforcement
Learning, and Natural Language Processing to develop and evaluate a range of autonomous systems for challenging real-world applications. Experience in evaluative methods such as user studies and surveys, and a demonstrable interest in autonomous systems would
be a welcome addition.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A strong track record of good publications at international venues (IJCAI, AIJ, JAIR, ICML, ICLR, AAMAS, NeurIPS) is desirable.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Equality, diversity and Inclusion is central to the ethos in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. We particularly encourage
women, Black, Asian and minority ethnic, LGBT and disabled applicants to apply for this position. We are committed to improving equality for women in science and have been successful in achieving an Athena SWAN bronze award in April 2020. We give full consideration
to applicants that wish to work flexibly including part-time and due consideration will be given to applicants who have taken a career break. The University has a generous maternity policy*, onsite childcare facilities</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities.
The University of Southampton is committed to sustainability and being a globally responsible university and has recently been awarded the Platinum EcoAward. Our vision is to embed the principles of sustainability into all aspects of our individual and collective
work, integrating sustainable development into our business planning, policy-making, and professional activities. This commits all of our staff and students to take responsibility for managing their activities to minimise harm to the environment, whether
this through switching off non-essential electrical equipment or using the recycling facilities.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> *subject to qualifying criteria</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The posts are full time fixed term for 1 year initially. The posts are due to start 1 March 2022.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are within six months of a relevant PhD qualification.
The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Application Procedure</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">You should submit your completed online application form at
<a href="https://jobs.soton.ac.uk">https://jobs.soton.ac.uk</a>. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date 09/03/2022. If you need any assistance, please contact Sian Gale (Recruitment Team) on 02380 592750 or at
<a href="mailto:Recruitment@soton.ac.uk">Recruitment@soton.ac.uk</a>. Please quote reference 1694122FP on all correspondence.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn, FIET<br>
Professor of Artificial Intelligence,<br>
Director, UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Electronics and Computer Science,<br>
University of Southampton, UK.<br>
t: +44 (0) 2380599309<br>
w: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sramchurn.com&data=01%7C01%7Csdr1%40soton.ac.uk%7C0c07f64804854621fe7208d7953c4afc%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=6JPB6WiaCxkbRzrBdIy9m5EOHUwu0k8rv3M%2B21QmUSA%3D&reserved=0">
<span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.sramchurn.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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l: Rm 4011, B32, University Road, Southampton.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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