[Jobs] Two Senior Research Associate jobs at Oxford University in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
Steven Reece
Oxford University invites applications for two postdoctoral positions (Grade 8: £42,149 - £50,296 p.a.), one with a specialism in Computer Vision and the other with a specialism in Natural Language Processing.
Deadline: Applications due noon November 9th, 2021.
The Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning (Computer Vision) will engage in internationally leading research in analysis of complex, heterogenous data at scale; he/she will bring state of the art machine learning to the heart of geospatial data analytics specifically for multi-spectral satellite imagery. The Researcher will develop and pioneer new Bayesian/deep machine learning techniques for big data, remote sensing, multi-sensor data fusion and interpretable estimation to improve the quality, coverage and transparency of geospatial datasets, mapping and characterising the most polluting industries world-wide.
The Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning (Natural Language Processing) will engage in internationally leading research in analysis of complex, unstructured text data at scale; he/she will bring state-of-the-art natural language processing to the heart of sustainable finance. The Researcher will develop and pioneer new Bayesian/deep machine learning techniques in natural language understanding, including text-mining, to improve the quality, coverage and transparency of datasets, characterising the most polluting industries world-wide.
The researchers will work in a team of machine learning experts within the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme (OxSFP). The machine learning team is led by Dr Steven Reece, who has transitioned to Geography from Engineering Science following 30 years research in fundamental machine learning and, recently, leading a group focussing on applications in disaster management and environmental protection. The researcher’s work will have a strong impact component and is in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence and data science, and the Satellite Applications Catapult, a UK technology and innovation company which aims to support UK industry by accelerating the growth of satellite applications.
The successful candidate’s work will produce open asset-level datasets with commensurate levels of uncertainty to help project partners and stakeholders to align finance with sustainability, a necessary condition for tackling the environmental and social challenges facing humanity, to manage the risks and capture the opportunities associated with the transition to global environmental sustainability.
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