Research Associate in Machine Learning - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

UE07 £36,333 - £43,155 Per Annum

College of Science & Engineering / School of Engineering / Institute for Digital Communications

Fixed Term (up to 24 months)
**Full time (35 hours per week)

The Opportunity:

Neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms aim to automate neural network architecture design, given a task. However, they are typically expensive, only search across narrow spaces of architectures, and are lacking in robustness. For these reasons (and others), manually designed architectures still dominate machine learning.

As part of the UPNAS project, the successful applicant will develop efficient NAS algorithms, explore how to generate diverse search spaces, and investigate the robustness and failure modes of NAS algorithms to make NAS a tool that can be used cheaply and reliably by a wide range of practitioners for new tasks.

The successful applicant will work closely with Dr Elliot J.

Crowley and collaborate with colleagues in the Bayesian and Neural Systems Research Group and the Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM).

This role is UE07 and is available on a fixed term basis for up to 24 months.

Your skills and attributes for success:

A track record of publications at top-tier venues in ML-driven fields e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IEEE PAMI, JMLR
Strong programming skills and experience with ML frameworks in Python e.g. Pytorch, Tensorflow
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
A demonstrable ability to work both individually and on collaborative research projects

Previous research experience in NAS or other areas of AutoML (e.g. hyperparameter optimisation, meta-learning) is desirable, but not essential.

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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
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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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