PhD Research Fellow: Fair AI & ML Theory

Arbeidsplassen; Oslo; On-site; NOK 551,000 - 595,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Oslo invites applications for a PhD Research Fellow in fairness in artificial intelligence, hosted by the Department of Informatics in the Scientific Computing and Machine Learning (SCML) group at Blindern, Oslo.

Starting date as soon as possible/by agreement; the fellowship period is three years, with possible extension for teaching and supervision duties and research assistance.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in informatics/computer science, mathematics, statistics, or a closely related field.
• Documented competence in machine learning at Master level
• Documented programming skills
• Minimum three documented mathematics or statistics courses with passing grade B or better in the Norwegian educational system
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• Investigate how to formally define, measure and reconcile different notions of fairness in AI systems.
• Study the theoretical relationships between different fairness definitions.
• Explore intersectional fairness across combinations of protected attributes and address subgroup fairness challenges.

Skills

Machine learning

Programming skills

English fluency

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Education

Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in informatics/computer science, mathematics, statistics or closely related field

Tools

Python

Job description

The University of Oslo invites applications for a PhD Research Fellow in fairness in artificial intelligence, hosted by the Department of Informatics in the Scientific Computing and Machine Learning (SCML) group at Blindern, Oslo.

Starting date as soon as possible/by agreement; the fellowship period is three years, with possible extension for teaching and supervision duties and research assistance.