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School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Surrey is seeking to recruit lecturers in Computer Science (NICE Research group) and at the Institute for People-Centred AI. Please find information about both positions below and listings for other senior roles as well. Lecturer in Natural Language Processing [https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525] The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Computer Science Research Centre and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP). This post is aligned to the Nature Inspired Computer and Engineering group within Computer Science. The Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group solves real-world problems in healthcare and sustainability, complex networks, robotics, natural language processing (NLP), and other areas, as well as foundational research in Machine Learning. For example, our colleagues specialising in NLP research have expertise in language modelling, machine translation, semantic web, and multimodal challenges aligned with NLP. This role encourages applicants from the areas of natural language processing including language modelling, language generation (machine translation/summarisation), explainability and reasoning in NLP, and/or aligned multimodal challenges for NLP (vision-language, audio-language, and so on) and we are particularly interested in candidates who enhance our current strengths and bring complementary areas of AI expertise. Department: Computer Science Location: Guildford Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Wednesday 12 March 2025
Interviews are planned to take place on 7th April, 2025 For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Steve Schneider, s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk
Lecturer in People-Centred AI [https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725] The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering together with the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI is seeking to recruit a full-time Lecturer in People-Centred Artificial Intelligence to expand our team of dynamic and highly skilled AI researchers. The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Computer Science Research Centre. This post is aligned to CVSSP. CVSSP is an internationally recognised leader in artificial intelligence for audio-visual machine perception pioneering foundational research in the field over the past 40 years. With a diverse community of more than 150 researchers, we are one of the largest audio and vision research groups in the UK. Research in the Centre has led to award-winning spin-out companies in the biometric, communication, healthcare, and creative industries. CVSSP has a long-standing international track record in AI research, ranking 1st in the UK for computer vision and 3rd in the UK for computer vision, AI and robotics based on publication in leading academic forums (CSRankings.org). CVSSP and Computer Science are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI) established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. This role encourages applicants from the areas of creative technologies, media provenance, audio-visual AI, foundation models, generative AI, and complementary areas of people-centred AI expertise. Department: Centre of Vision, Speech & Signal Processing Location: Guildford Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Wednesday 12 March 2025 Planned Interview Date: Monday 31 March 2025 For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Adrian Hilton, a.hilton@surrey.ac.uk -- Full list of vacancies at the School of CS and EE:
*Role Title*
*Role Link*
Professor in Satellite Communications
*https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009225 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009225*
Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
*https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009525*
Lecturer in Cyber Security
*https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009425 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009425*
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
*https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009325 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009325*
Lecturer in Robotics
*https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009625 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009625*
Lecturer in People-Centred AI
*https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/009725*
Surrey has an established international reputation in AI research, 1st in the UK for computer vision and top 10 for AI, computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing (CSRankings.org) and were 7th in the UK for REF2021 outputs in Computer Science research. Computer Science and CVSSP are at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), established in 2021 as a pan-University initiative which brings together leading AI research with cross-discipline expertise across health, social, behavioural, and engineering sciences, and business, law, and the creative arts to shape future AI to benefit people and society. PAI leads a portfolio of £100m in grant awards including major research activities in creative industries and healthcare, and two doctoral training programmes with funding for over 100 PhD researchers: the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion, and the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Network in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility. The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore, we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.
Regards,
*Dr Diptesh Kanojia https://dipteshkanojia.github.io/ **(he/him)* Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/dr-diptesh-kanojia Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence | School of CS & EE https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-computer-science-and-electronic-engineering Office: 13BA02, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
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