Assistant Professor (Research) - Data and AI Analytics for Manufacturing Applications (111399-0426)

Duration: Fixed-term contract until 31st March 2028

About the Role  

Informal Queries

• For informal queries, please contact Matthew Higgins (Professor) at m.higgins@warwick.ac.uk.

Government strategy aims to exploit A.I. faster and further into a broader number of sectors to enable the proposed benefits of increased efficiency, higher productivity and long term lower energy use.

WMG as a department are evolving, knowing that to deliver high impact AI research and innovation, it is critical that we are able to attribute value and tangibility to the data we collect and exploit.

This role will support the departments data-driven AI strategy to strengthen its role in UK manufacturing innovation. Reporting into the WMG Theme Leads, WMG are looking for a researcher who can support the:

-Definition of requirements for real and synthetic data collection, aligned with project priorities alongside providing best practice guidelines.

-Development of exploitation models, including licensing, IPR, and hosting data as a tangible product.

- Cross cutting activities between research groups, IT, and business development to identify gaps and opportunities.

This role is research focused, with a research focused mind-set required to support that theme leads within a international renowned university environment. As part of the role you will be able to contribute to a growing project portfolio in data and applied AI in the manufacturing space. 

About You

You will have a PhD in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field (i.e. data science). Particularly, candidates should have experience and a sustained track record of:

• Research Methodologies of real and synthetic data collection.
• Delivering impact from data, which could be through AI training or other routes to exploitation.
• Working as part of a team in a dynamic research environment.

Candidates will be required to show how they can work within a cross-cutting role and asked to explain their approach to engaging with a broad range of research groups to engage, infer and distil their distinct data research challenges into an action plan as part of the WMG strategy development.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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