PhD Studentship in Explainable AI, Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning

About the Studentship
Applications are invited for a PhD position in Artificial Intelligence, to be based in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The position is an opportunity to combine cutting-edge research at the intersection of human-computer collaboration and machine learning, in service of building computer systems that learn to collaborate with their human users and guide their interaction over time.

Technical themes of interest include (but are not limited to):

- human computer negotiation

- Artificial Intelligence in education

- multi-agent learning and decision-making

- incentive design for human-computer collaboration

Desired Background
The project is suitable for a student with a top MSc or first-class bachelor’s degree in computer science, cognitive psychology, statistics, physics, or a related discipline.

Previous coursework or experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and programming languages is desirable, although we do not expect students to have all three of these. Because of the scale of the data sets involved, a strong programming background will be essential for this project.