Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computer and Information Sciences

About the role

Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, you will support the Principal Investigator in delivery of research activity on the the UKRI-funded Responsible AI UK Keystone research project “PROBabLE Futures - Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures”, undertaking personal and collaborative quantitative and qualitative research activity as required by the project, contributing ideas, and/or enhancement of techniques or methodologies, writing up research work for publication and dissemination, and contributing to impact across all work packages and to transfer of knowledge/learning lessons from other domains and Responsible AI UK (RAI UK) projects.

The role holder will have the main responsibility for investigating probabilistic AI ecosystems, including emerging generative AI, in law enforcement and take specific responsibility for working with the project’s impact lead to develop impact plans for all work packages, project communications and outputs.

The role holder will undertake, with appropriate support and guidance, individual and collaborative quantitative and qualitative research projects, including undertaking travel to conduct interviews, investigations and workshops, resulting in excellent outputs of sufficient volume, quality, and impact that is internationally excellent in originality, significance and rigour to meet the terms of the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise.

The role holder will have an opportunity to work with multiple Computer Science researchers across the UK including Professor Adrian Weller at the University of Cambridge, Professor Muffy Calder and Dr Michele Sevegnani at the University of Glasgow, and Professor Yifeng Zeng at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle.

This role is a fixed term role until 31^st March 2028. We are happy to consider part-time job share arrangements.

About the team

This Research Project is being delivered within the Department of Computer and Information Sciences within the research team of the PROBabLE Futures Keystone Project. The project involves working alongside our law enforcement, third sector and commercial partners, to develop a framework to understand the implications of uncertainty and to build confidence in future Probabilistic AI in law enforcement, with the interests of justice and responsibility at its heart. The project is a UKRI-funded Responsible AI UK Keystone project and includes academic Co-Is in a number of disciplines, law enforcement and commercial partners.

About you

Applicants should hold a PhD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline and have demonstrable specialist expert knowledge in general AI, AI exploitability and fairness, and technical, regulatory and ethical issues raised by the use of AI in law enforcement and the public sector.

Further information about the requirements of the role is available in the person specification.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Professor Yifeng Zeng yifeng.zeng@northumbria.ac.uk

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