Postdoctoral Research fellow in Human-Centred AI for Decision Support

• School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50

• Join a world class team focused on human centered decision support using Artificial Intelligence

• Experience in Machine Learning OR human factors, HCI or psychology will be highly regarded.

• Based at our picturesque and Vibrant St Lucia Campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world, and within an environment where interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.

At the core of our teaching remains our students, and their experience with us sets a foundation for success far beyond graduation. UQ has made a commitment to making education opportunities available for all Queenslanders, regardless of personal, financial, or geographical barriers.

As part of our commitment to excellence in research and professional practice in academic contexts, we are proud to provide our staff with access to world-class facilities and equipment, grant writing support, greater research funding opportunities, and other forms of staff support and development.

About the Lab

The lab is led by Tim Miller , Professor of Artificial Intelligence at The University of Queensland. The mission of the lab is to amplify the capabilities of people using artificial intelligence. The lab strongly values excellence, human-centeredness, collaboration, respect, and personal wellbeing. This position presents an opportunity to collaborative with Tim to set up the direction of this new laboratory, including selecting a new, catchy name!

The University of Queensland is ranked #43 in QS World University Rankings 2024, and is located in sunny Brisbane, Queensland. Brisbane is a laid-back city that enjoys warm weather all year around and is close to many of the country’s most beautiful destinations, such as the Great Barrier Reef.

About This Opportunity 

We are seeking two Postdoctoral Research Fellow’s to join Professor Tim Miller and his team focussing on human-centered decision support using artificial intelligence (AI).

The first position is for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in human factors, HCI, psychology, or related area and the second is focused on candidates with experience in human-centred machine learning. Both positions will work with Tim and his team on human-centered decision support using artificial intelligence (AI).

The successful candidate’s will apply their expertise in machine learning and/or human factors/HCI/psychology on a range of projects that aim to enhance performance of expert decisions makers.  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, such as medical diagnosis and treatment. It is expected that the successful candidate 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.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Produce quality and impactful research in the area of human-centered AI.

• Publish outputs in high quality outlets, such as CHI, CSCW, FAccT, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPs, CVPR, EMNLP or similar (including journals).

• Work with the team and external domain experts in joint research projects and applications for competitive research funding support.

• Develop a coherent research program and an emerging research profile in the area of human-centered artificial intelligence.

• Teach part of one course per year within the School of EECS.

• Contribute to the effective supervision of Honours and Higher Degree by Research students (as appropriate).

• Work to promptly resolve conflict and grievances when they arise in accordance with University policy and procedures.

• Demonstrate citizenship behaviours that align to the UQ values and with the missions and values of the lab .

• Show emerging or developed leadership and self-management through collaboration and active participation in priority activities.

• Contribute to internal service roles and administrative processes as required, including participation in decision-making and service on relevant committees.

• Begin to develop external links and partnerships by cultivating relationships with industry, government departments, professional bodies and the wider community.

This is a research focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance .

These are full time fixed-term positions for up to 2 years. At Academic level A. The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $92,938.86 - $102,945.12, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $108,738.47 - $120,445.79 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad:  from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options and flexible start/finish times, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.

About You  

• Required: Completion or 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.

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

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

• Required: 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).

• Required: Experience in conducting human behavioural experiments.

• Desirable: Evidence of contributions towards successfully obtaining external research funding.

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

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: Visa sponsorship may be available for this appointment. 

• Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits. 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Tim Miller at [email protected]

For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Resume
• Responses to the ‘About You’ section
   

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected] .

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Wednesday 27th March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (R-36188).