Research Associate

Full time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: Available for 1 year

 We invite candidates to apply for a 1 year Post-Doctoral Research Associate position in the area of decentralised and private machine learning within the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

The Opportunity:

The open position is in the FAIRCROWD II project within the REPHRAIN National Centre for Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial influence Online. The project is led by Dr. Rik Sarkar. The project aims to develop private and decentralised machine learning algorithms for evaluating user data. The research can involve some combination of techniques from distributed machine learning, development, differential privacy, optimisation, algorithms etc.

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Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential:

• PhD (or near completion) in computer science or related field.
• Confidence in understanding concepts in theoretical computer science.
• Knowledge of machine learning and data science..

The following criteria are not yes/no factors, but questions of degree. Recruitment will aim at selecting those candidates with the best possible performance in all these criteria.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of differential privacy, theoretical machine learning, algorithms, and experience in applied data science and data analytics.
• Proven expertise in the techniques needed to undertake the research in question.
• Demonstrated quality of research performance.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly, orally and in writing..
• Feedback is only provided to interviewed candidates.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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