Job Description

Full-time, fixed-term contract until 31 January 2025. 36.5 hours per week.

We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral research fellow, to work in the area of probabilistic machine learning, decision making and causal inference.

The post is a joint appointment between the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Warwick. You will join a team of researchers affiliated with the Warwick Machine Learning Group and The Turing, and led by Prof Theo Damoulas, including research assistants and PhD students in computer science and statistics. You will have opportunities to collaborate with external partners from Microsoft Research, Data61, Amazon and policy makers from GLA, TfL and the UK government.

You will be expected to perform high quality research under the supervision of Prof Theo Damoulas, as part of the Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship Machine Learning Foundations for Digital Twins, awarded to Theo. This project is likely to involve hierarchical Bayesian models, nonparametric Bayesian inference, graphical models, causal inference, experimental design and issues in spatio-temporal inference such as non-stationarity and non-separability. The expectation is that you will produce breakthrough research results in the areas of Bayesian statistics, causal inference, causal AI, and contribute to publishing these results in top rated venues.

You will possess a PhD or an equivalent qualification in Statistics or Computer Science or Applied Mathematics (or you will shortly be obtaining it). You should have a very strong background in one or more of the following areas: Bayesian inference, spatial statistics, probabilistic machine learning, causal inference and structural causal modelling.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

To find out more or arrange an informal conversation about the role, please contact: Prof Theo Damoulas ( ).

Applicants are requested to submit a CV and a supporting statement in addition as part of their application to demonstrate how they meet the \'Person Specification.\'

Interview Date: TBC.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick\'s jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

\xc2\xa333,966 to \xc2\xa344,263 per annum

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