Location: | Edinburgh |
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Salary: | £39,347 to £46,974 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 4th July 2024 |
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Closes: | 7th August 2024 |
Job Ref: | 10864 |
Fixed term contract - Available from 1st September 2024 and ends 31st August 2026.
Full time - 35 hours per week.
The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate as RD&I Fellow in the area of generative AI for enhancing the creative industrial (e.g., games and films) workflows.
The opportunity:
The post is full-time (35 hours per week) and fixed term for 2 years. It is possible to extend as per performance and further discussion.
The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Changjian Li and Dr. Laura Sevilla-Lara (with a dotted line to Prof. Melissa Terras). In collaboration with other researchers at Abertay University, the team will study generative AI methods to design new machine learning systems to enhance the current workflows of the creative industry, from content creation (2D and 3D), exploration to use (animation, simulation). The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to work with world-leading industry partners in gaming, animation and film sectors by discovering new research topics, developing thoughtful integration of generative AI into virtual production and performance pipelines, and accessing real industrial data as a unique advantage.
About the CoSTAR Realtime Lab:
The CoSTAR Realtime Lab will bring together video games development expertise in Dundee’s globally significant InGAME cluster with world-leading applied research and development (R&D) at Abertay, with the University of Edinburgh’s expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The Realtime Lab will place R&D side-by-side with live commercial production, offering routes to commercialization and markets beyond most small and medium business (SME) networks. It will facilitate industry sector engagement, catalyzing innovation in:
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