Associate Professor in Games and Artificial intelligence

DMU is an ambitious, globally-minded university with a strong focus on delivering quality teaching and learning, and a campus-wide focus on providing a sector-leading student experience.

Faculty / Directorate

The School of Computer Science and Informatics (SCSI) is large (with some 100 staff and over 2,000 students) and has a very diverse make up. Its research is highly relevant and topical, through the concentration on the three main areas where computing affects modern society: AI, cyber security, and social impact.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly affecting the world, and there has been world-leading research in this area at De Montfort University for over 20 years. The ongoing stream of high-quality publications and international collaborations in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) is a main factor in the high international ranking of SCSI: 151-200 worldwide in the Shanghai Ranking, and 201-250 in the THES World University Rankings, as well as in the CSCI 2021 REF outcome which rated 2/3 of research outputs as world-leading or internationally excellent. Current research ranges from world-leading theoretical developments to practical applications including with local government and companies.

The Cyber Technology Institute (CTI) at DMU holds the highest recognitions awarded by the UK National Cyber Security Centre both in teaching and research – one of only seven in the UK to hold both those awards. The Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR) is directly focused on the social impact of computing, and was for most of its 26 years’ existence the only such research group in the UK. It has attracted significant external income, in particular through a series of EU projects (over E7M in the last five years) including the ethics and data governance hub of the E1B Human Brain Project and major projects on AI regulation.

Role

The Associate Professor would be expected to have a research profile in Artificial Intelligence, which might also overlap with topics in the other institutes, such as AI ethics (CCSR) or the application of AI in cyber (CTI). Their main leadership role would be to build on the strong basis in the IAI of foundational and applied research, to develop interdisciplinary and external connections with industrial, governmental, and academic partners, and realising the related potential for external funding, wide-ranging impact, and increased external visibility of the institute’s excellent research.

They would also be expected to contribute to teaching in the Games, Mathematics, and Intelligent Systems subject group, which offers a range of undergraduate courses in all those areas and an MSc in AI, and to management and leadership tasks within teaching and within the Faculty more generally.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an ambitious academic who is an enterprising and innovative leader, to develop collaborations and avenues for realising research impact. To find out more information about the role, please view the Job Description/Person Specification.