Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Software Design and Development on Top of AI Algorithms to Enable Explainability of AI Decisions

In collaboration with British Telecom (BT) Adastral park which is BT’s Global Research and Development Headquarters in Ipswich, this project will investigate the design and development of appropriate software on top of AI algorithms to ensure AI "explainability" to a range of audiences from AI experts to business managers.

The project will be mainly driven by the industrial partner’s requirements. BT will set specific application scenarios in the course of the project execution thus providing "real-world" case studies as well as dissemination of the project’s outcome. BT’s autonomics team, business managers and external collaborators will be also involved for testing the results of the project.

This project aims at innovative and timely work inline with EU societal challenges for explaining AI decisions (new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR 2016/679 and ISO/IEC 27001) entering into force on May 25th 2018), making XAI a necessity for all future AI-based systems.

How to apply:
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Candidates for funded PhD studentship must demonstrate outstanding qualities and be motivated to complete a PhD in 4 years.
The PhD Studentships are open to UK, EU and international students. Candidates for a PhD Studentship should demonstrate outstanding qualities and be motivated to complete a PhD in 4 years and must demonstrate:

• A 1st class honours degree and/or a relevant Master’s degree with distinction or equivalent.If English is not your first language you’ll need IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 minimum (with a minimum 6.0 in each component).