Data Science KTP Associate

The KTP Project

The KTP Associate will lead a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project that is a collaboration between Durham University and MoreLife UK Ltd. based in Leeds. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme helps businesses to innovate and grow through the aid of discipline specific academic expertise. It does this by linking them with an academic supervisory team and a researcher in a university to work on a specific project.
Working alongside CTO, project managers, digital programme lead, psychology lead and software development team, the KTP Associate will be involved in a project to design, develop and implement innovative methods for delivering real-time personalised weight management interventions, via an accessible digital platform.

Specific responsibilities of the Associate:

• Identify internal stakeholders of MoreLife (UK) Ltd. Understand company business & capabilities. Problem statement and project scope formulation.
• Review of state-of-the-art. Identify methods, including: responsible AI, privacy-enhancing technologies, machine learning algorithms for recommender systems, user interface (UI) adaptation, HCI, application evaluation and user studies.
• Develop system specifications
• Back-end design and development: Develop and evaluate the personalised RS; Developing UI adaptation logic
• Develop system prototype: inputs, data storage, methodologies for protection of personal data, output implementation and integration.
• Evaluate RS using standardize performance metrics.
• Evaluate the application (RS and UI) in an online user study.
• Implementation and integration with MoreLife systems.
• Promotion of the project, final reporting, including progress reviews and updates to stakeholders.
• Journal/conference paper writing and publishing.

Responsible to: Dr Sunčica Hadžidedić, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Durham University.
Grant Westermann, MoreLife UK Ltd.

Location: The KTP Associate will be employed by Durham University but will be based at MoreLife UK, Leeds, and will be expected to spend time in Durham University to undertake the partnership’s objectives.

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