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University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are providing a list of Postdoc Fellowship positions available at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.

 

(01) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title:  Research Associate

In this project, we investigate how we can derive better methods for back-propagating through mixed continuous-discrete complex latent structures, and how we can leverage them for learning more explainable, data-efficient, and robust deep neural models. The reason why discrete latent representations are not widely adopted by deep neural models is that they tend to not interact well with gradient-based optimisation, but this started to change recently (e.g., see Niepert et al., 2021Minervini et al. 2022), enabling a wide range of applications and use cases.

Deadline : 01/16/2023, 

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(02) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title: Research Associate

This project will develop a neurosymbolic AI approach that tightly integrates logical reasoning and learning to formally constrain the training of neural networks. It will involve extending a theorem-proving framework in Isabelle to allow the tensor-based (formal) representation, machine proofs and faithful code-generation of spatio-temporal logical constraints that can be injected into the training of neural networks.  The effectiveness of the methodology will be demonstrated using scenarios and specifications arising from the human-robot interaction domain, where safety is crucial. We will focus on logical specifications that bake in spatio-temporal constraints e.g., reach-avoid problems, excluded regions and conditionally excluded regions that depend on environment-defined and temporal predicates. Leveraging access to existing robotics testbeds within the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (such as the Assisted Living Laboratory), we will define a sequence of scenarios at increasing levels of complexity. These scenarios will address human-robot interaction problems involving robot manipulation tasks.

Deadline : 01/16/2023, 

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(03) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Associate

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.

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms aim to train a decision policy for an agent to achieve a specified task in an environment. The agent’s policy is trained by choosing actions which maximise the cumulative rewards received by the agent from its environment. With the introduction of deep learning into RL, “deep RL” algorithms have achieved unprecedented scalability, enabling the solution of complex decision tasks, such as autonomous driving [1] and beating human champions in games such as Go [2]. However, a current limitation of deep RL is that the training process typically requires orders of many millions of environment interactions in the precise environment (i.e. training data), which is infeasible in real-world applications where obtaining samples poses a significant bottleneck. Good transferability between different related environments is also still not generally achievable. Thus, developing approaches to improve the sample efficiency of deep RL algorithms, i.e. learning good policies with minimal data or from information learnt elsewhere, is a high-priority research topic.

Deadline : 01/16/2023, 

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About The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom- Official Website

The University of Edinburgh is a public research university located in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 1582 and officially opened in 1583, the university is one of Scotland’s four ancient universities and the sixth-oldest university in the English-speaking world. The university has five main campuses in the city of Edinburgh, which include many buildings of historical and architectural significance such as those in Old Town. The university played an important role in Edinburgh becoming a chief intellectual centre during the Scottish Enlightenment, contributing to the city being nicknamed the “Athens of the North”.

The university is a member of a number of prestigious academic organisations, including the Russell Group, the Coimbra Group, the Universitas 21, the Una Europa, and the League of European Research Universities, a consortium of 23 leading research universities in Europe. It has the third largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, after the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. In 2019-20, the university has a consolidated annual income of £1,125.3 million, of which £296.1 million was from research grants and contracts.

The alumni of the university include some of the major figures of modern history. From naturalist Charles Darwin and mathematician Thomas Bayes to philosopher David Hume, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, surgeon Joseph Lister, physicist James Clerk Maxwell, three signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, nine heads of state and government (including three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom), and a myriad of famous writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, and Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

As of 2020, Edinburgh’s alumni, faculty members and researchers include 19 Nobel laureates, three Turing Award laureates, an Abel Prize winner and Fields Medalist, two Pulitzer Prize winners, two currently sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and several Olympic gold medallists. It continues to have links to the British Royal Family, having had the Duke of Edinburgh as its Chancellor from 1953 to 2010 and Princess Anne since 2011

 

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