Lecturer in People-Centred AI

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. 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.  

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.

This post will support the growing cohort of students across all undergraduate Computer Science programmes including the new Computer Science and AI programme and will support students in the highly successful MSc in AI and MSc in Data Science.

What we can offer

The postholder will benefit from the support of colleagues within the School and across the University to develop their careers. The University’s welcoming community recognises the need to nurture its staff and to help them build a flourishing career. You will become a member of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI supporting the growth of collaborative cross-disciplinary research and training as Surrey delivers its future vision. 

In addition to salary, you will receive a yearly incremental pay rise, generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days holiday plus 7 university closure days and 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles), a generous pension, access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes, and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery. 

Additional Information

Interviews are planned to take place on 31st March, 2025.

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Adrian Hilton, a.hilton@surrey.ac.uk 

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