Research Associate on AISEC: AI Secure and Explainable Construction (300542)
 

Salary range: £32,817 - £40,322
FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)
Term: Fixed term (until 30 August 2023)
Closing date: 12 July 2020

AI applications have become pervasive: from mobile phones and home appliances to stock markets, autonomous cars, robots, and drones. Each application domain comes with a rich set of requirements such as legal policies, safety and security standards, company values, or simply public perception. AISEC aims to build a sustainable, general purpose, and multidomain methodology and development environment for policy-to-property secure and explainable by construction development of complex AI systems.

This project will employ types with supporting lightweight verification methods (such as SMT solvers) in order to create and deploy a novel framework for documenting, implementing and developing policies for complex deep learning systems. Types will serve as a unifying mechanism to embed security and safety contracts directly into programs that implement AI. The project will produce an integrated development environment with infrastructure to cater for different domain experts: from lawyers and security experts to verification experts and system engineers designing complex AI systems. It will be built, tested and used in collaboration with industrial partners in two key AI application areas: autonomous vehicles and natural language interfaces (aka chatbots).

The focus of this particular role is to develop the necessary theory and implementations to integrate novel techniques in AI specification and verification into a type theoretic framework.This will involve working closely with the other universities and partners within the project.

The project spans several subjects: type theory, automated and interactive theorem proving, security, AI and machine learning, autonomous systems, natural language processing and generation, legal aspects of AI. It will cover two main application areas: autonomous cars and chatbots, drawing from expertise and infrastructure provided by industrial partners working in these two areas. AISEC has a significant international span, with 12 partners from Academia and Industry in Europe (France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway) and the US. Researchers joining this project will have excellent opportunities to travel to international conferences, organise scientific events, spend time with industrial partners, collaborate with academic leaders in the field, develop their own research profiles as well as gain experience in other AI and CS disciplines.

AISEC is a joint project between the Heriot-Watt University and the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh. More information about the project is available at http://laiv.uk/index.php/vacancies/.

Please note this post is on a fixed term basis ending 30th August 2023.

It is anticipated that interviews for this post will be held in late July 2020.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Dr Robert Atkey, Chancellor’s Fellow, email: robert.atkey@strath.ac.uk

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Faculty
Faculty of Science
Department/School
Computer and Information Sciences
Staff Category
Research
Type of Employment
Fixed-term
Working Hours
Full-time
Vacancy Description
 
Salary range: £32,817 - £40,322
FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)
Term: Fixed term (until 30 August 2023)
Closing date: 12 July 2020

AI applications have become pervasive: from mobile phones and home appliances to stock markets, autonomous cars, robots, and drones. Each application domain comes with a rich set of requirements such as legal policies, safety and security standards, company values, or simply public perception. AISEC aims to build a sustainable, general purpose, and multidomain methodology and development environment for policy-to-property secure and explainable by construction development of complex AI systems.

This project will employ types with supporting lightweight verification methods (such as SMT solvers) in order to create and deploy a novel framework for documenting, implementing and developing policies for complex deep learning systems. Types will serve as a unifying mechanism to embed security and safety contracts directly into programs that implement AI. The project will produce an integrated development environment with infrastructure to cater for different domain experts: from lawyers and security experts to verification experts and system engineers designing complex AI systems. It will be built, tested and used in collaboration with industrial partners in two key AI application areas: autonomous vehicles and natural language interfaces (aka chatbots).

The focus of this particular role is to develop the necessary theory and implementations to integrate novel techniques in AI specification and verification into a type theoretic framework.This will involve working closely with the other universities and partners within the project.

The project spans several subjects: type theory, automated and interactive theorem proving, security, AI and machine learning, autonomous systems, natural language processing and generation, legal aspects of AI. It will cover two main application areas: autonomous cars and chatbots, drawing from expertise and infrastructure provided by industrial partners working in these two areas. AISEC has a significant international span, with 12 partners from Academia and Industry in Europe (France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway) and the US. Researchers joining this project will have excellent opportunities to travel to international conferences, organise scientific events, spend time with industrial partners, collaborate with academic leaders in the field, develop their own research profiles as well as gain experience in other AI and CS disciplines.

AISEC is a joint project between the Heriot-Watt University and the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh. More information about the project is available at http://laiv.uk/index.php/vacancies/.

Please note this post is on a fixed term basis ending 30th August 2023.

It is anticipated that interviews for this post will be held in late July 2020.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Dr Robert Atkey, Chancellor’s Fellow, email: robert.atkey@strath.ac.uk

Click here for full details