[Air-L] One-year postdoc in UnBias project available (Edinburgh)

Ansgar Koene Ansgar.Koene at nottingham.ac.uk
Fri Jul 7 02:58:00 PDT 2017


Apologies for cross-posting.

See below announcement for one-year postdoc position related to our Unbias project http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/


Dr. Ansgar Koene
Senior Research Fellow: UnBias, CaSMa & Horizon Policy Impact
Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute
University of Nottingham
Working group chair for IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations
http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/
http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/
http://www.horizon.ac.uk/
https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7003.html
https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/


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From: Michael Rovatsos <mrovatso at inf.ed.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 4:48 PM
Subject: [unbias] One-year postdoc in UnBias project available (Edinburgh)

Dear Colleague

we have a one-year postdoc position to fill in Edinburgh on one of
my research projects - I'd be very grateful if you could distribute
the announcement below among your colleagues and junior staff.

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An opening for a postdoctoral RA position has become available on our
EPSRC-funded UnBias project (http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/) from 1st
September 2017 for 12 months full time (possibly with a slightly earlier
part-time start, where appropriate). See
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=040285
for details, the application deadline is *** 27th July 2017 ***.

UnBias investigates problems surrounding algorithmic bias in
data-driven systems (think biased search engines, recommender systems,
fake news, etc) together with colleagues from Nottingham and Oxford.
The project involves a heavy human factors and policy making element,
which the other partners take care of, while in Edinburgh we focus on
developing fair algorithms, i.e. on the technical side of things.

So far, we have mainly worked on fairness in resource allocation, which has
mostly involved game-theoretic multiagent systems techniques, but depending on
the profile of the person who will replace the current Edinburgh postdoc, over
the next year we could also take a slightly different direction - e.g.
prediction fairness in machine learning algorithms, or more content-based
notions of fairness, e.g. representing different opinions accurately in
debates, which might involve more NLP work.

For informal enquiries please feel free to contact Michael Rovatsos
(mrovatso at inf.ed.ac.uk).
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Many thanks for your help with this!

Best
Michael

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