Research Associate - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh
Description
UE07:
£37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)
School of Infomatics, College of Science and Engineering
Fixed term, full time (35 hours per week)
The Opportunity:
This post is full-time (35 hours per week) and fixed term for 12 months (with possibility of extension by another 12 months)
The goal of this project is to develop new approaches for visual reasoning that are grounded in learned general-purpose 3D aware representations.
This will involve advancing our understanding of the state-of-the-art in 3D aware representation learning and developing new methods for introducing 3D priors into visual representation learning algorithms.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Ph.
- A strong background in machine learning and/or computer vision and 3D vision
- Publications at top venues in CV or/and ML (e.g. CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML,...)
- Strong programming skills
- Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)
- Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills, and excellent command of English
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page
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The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.
We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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The School of Informatics
The School of Informatics was ranked #1 in the UK for research power in Computer Science and Informatics Times Higher Education ranking, based on the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF).
We are one of the top six institutions in Europe for AI according to the CSRankings website , and the highest-ranked UK institution.
The School is an active Unit in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS); these units are recognized centres of excellence in AI research across Europe.
In addition, it is one of the five founding partners of the UK's Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
This gives rise to opportunities to interact with PhD students, research fellows, and senior researchers within the Alan Turing Institute.
The City
Edinburgh is overall an attractive city to live in: it is walkable, enjoys proximity to nature and features a world-class cultural scene that includes attractions such as the Edinburgh International Festival or the Edinburgh Fringe.
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