Job Description:
The UCD School of Computer Science (SCS) and School Mathematics and Statistics (SMS) is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in the area of foundational technologies and models for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop foundational machine learning, algorithms and architectures, to support advances in the application of Artificial Intelligence.
* Nurture collaboration between the two Schools through a research programme that underpins the wider research activities of a new AI institute.
* Develop and sustain a leading foundational research programme, including publishing in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, the supervision of research students and the development and submission of competitive applications for external funding.
Requirements:
* Augment and broaden the current areas of research in both Schools.
* Pursue excellence in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across both School's wide-ranging data-centric programmes, and contribute to the development and delivery of new programmes.
About the Role:
This role will target research focused in areas such as: Learning theory; Reinforcement learning; Online Learning; Transfer learning; Interpretability, trustworthiness and accountability in decision making; LLMs and Human language technologies; High-performance and sustainable computing architectures for AI/ML
About the College of Science:
The UCD College of Science, to which the Schools of Computer Science and Mathematics and Statistics belong, is undergoing an exciting transformation under the guiding principle of `data in science, science in data'.