PhD in Multimodal AI for Explainable Micro-Expressions

UAG; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

UAG in the United Kingdom seeks doctoral teaching assistants to pursue a PhD programme alongside a university teaching contract. You will split time between research on micro-expression analysis and teaching responsibilities, including lectures and lab supervision.

Applicants should have strong foundations in computer vision and machine learning, with Python experience and familiarity with PyTorch/TensorFlow. This role offers valuable academic career development.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have expertise in developing computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
• Vision Language Model (VLM) experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver teaching and manage lab sessions as part of a PhD teaching contract.
• Assist with assessments and student experience.
• Contribute to research in explainable AI for multimodal analysis.
• Develop and benchmark methods combining visual data with language representations.

Skills

Computer vision

Machine learning

Programming

Python

Multimodal data

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

MSc in related field

PhD programme

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

UAG in the United Kingdom seeks doctoral teaching assistants to pursue a PhD programme alongside a university teaching contract. You will split time between research on micro-expression analysis and teaching responsibilities, including lectures and lab supervision.

Applicants should have strong foundations in computer vision and machine learning, with Python experience and familiarity with PyTorch/TensorFlow. This role offers valuable academic career development.