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I’m recruiting 2 x postdoc research fellows for 2 years in the area of human-centered decision support using AI.

Applications close: Wednesday 27th March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST.

The first position is for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in human factors, HCI, psychology of AI, or related area.

The second position is for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in human-centred machine learning.

The successful candidates will work with the lab team and external experts to design, develop, and evaluate decision support tools for high-stakes decision making; including working with Professor Peter Soyer and Professor Monika Janda on decision support for skin cancer detetion.

It is expected that the successful candidates will each contribute to research, some engagement, and to teaching part of one course per year or supervise thesis students. This is a valuable opportunity to develop a teaching portfolio and an emerging research portfolio when applying for academic and other research positions in the future.

The position is located at the St Lucia campus in Brisbane, Australia. Flexible working arrangements are possible including hybrid on site/WFH options, part time options, and flexible start/finish times. Fully remote is not available.

Selection criteria

The successful candidate with have:

Required

  • Completed (or be near completion) of a PhD in either machine learning or a related area, OR HCI, human factors, psychology applied to AI, or a related area.

  • An emerging profile in research in the area of human-centered artificial intelligence.

  • Evidence of publications in reputed refereed journals and presenting at conferences such as CHI, CSCW, FAccT, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPs, CVPR, EMNLP, or similar.

  • Demonstrated experience in machine learning, such as deep learning for image processes, deep learning for natural language processing, or interpretable machine learning (for machine learning role); OR demonstrated experience in human-centred methods, such co-design, participatory design, conducting human behavioural experiments, and conducting field studies (for HCI/human factors/psychology role).

  • Experience in conducting human behavioural experiments.

Desired

  • Evidence of contributions towards successfully obtaining external research funding.

  • Demonstrated experience in the area of trust, reliance, explainability/interpretability, decision support, or cognitive/social psychology; as applied to artificial intelligence.

Considering applying?

If you are considering applying, please first read our Missions and values to ensure that our lab aligns with what you aim to do.

Then, to submit an application and find more detail about the position, see the advert on the UQ careers website.

As part of your application, you will need to provide: a resume/CV; and responses to the selection criteria above.

Contact me if you have questions about the positions. –!>