Junior Fellow Artificial Intelligence and Interactions (# of pos: 5)

PSL University is recruiting five AI Junior Fellows for a period of five years, starting in 2022-2023. These new fellows will be affiliated to one of PSL’s research laboratories and will teach data science in one of the university’s graduate programs, regardless of their main disciplines.

Context

PSL is a collegiate university that integrates 11 prestigious institution s. It offers an exceptional training environment covering a broad spectrum of disciplines in experimental sciences, the humanities and “hard sciences”. As the first young university in the Times Higher Education ranking (THE), and ranked among the top 50 universities in the world in the main international rankings (QS, ARWU, CWUR), PSL attracts students of the highest international level.

PSL has had ambitious goals in the fields of artificial intelligence and data science for many years. These materialize in the 3IA PRAIRIE Institute and PariSanté Campus, as PSL is one of its founding members, but also the ENS-PSL Data Science Center, the Dauphine Digital Initiative, and the transversal Data Science program . In particular, the 3IA PRAIRIE Institute is a world leader in fundamental research and higher education in AI, supported by the transversal Data Science program, which aims at structuring the training offer in AI and at disseminating it among all disciplines (humanities, physics, astrophysics, chemistry, life sciences, etc.).

To increase these efforts, PSL intends to recruit seven fellows (five juniors and two seniors), starting in the academic year 2022-2023. These junior positions are open for a period of 5 years and are intended for young doctors who wish to pursue a high-level academic career while investing in the development of training options in AI, particularly in its applications.

Teaching Environment

Teaching AI and data science is relevant to all the schools and disciplines of PSL. The transversal Data Science program coordinates this effort and disseminates these disciplines at the graduate and postgraduate levels through innovative tools (refresher courses, intensive weeks, hackathons). A Cofund program for interdisciplinary PhDs, “AI for the sciences”, also funds 25 PhDs for international students.

PSL’s ambition is to increase the number of courses in AI and data science, especially in graduate programs . A minor in AI will open at the beginning of the academic year 2022-2023 to allow students from all PSL graduate programs to validate a set of credits (ECTS) in the field.

Junior fellows are expected to contribute to this dynamic. The new recruits will offer new courses within the transversal Data Science program and the PSL’s graduate programs. They will work closely with the representatives of all applied disciplines as well as the heads of the transversal Data Science program in order to meet the specific needs of these disciplines.

They will have to adapt to a broad audience of non-specialists in mathematics or computer science.

These new fellows will also have to teach in English.

The expected teaching load is 100 hours per year, which a course preparation package.

Research Environment

PSL offers an exceptional environment for research in data science and artificial intelligence. As a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence PR[AI]RIE and PariSanté Campus, it is home to laboratories at the cutting edge of research.

Fellows joining PSL will be part of research dynamics at the highest international level, whether in the core areas of AI (mathematics or computer science) or in its numerous applied areas (physics, astrophysics, chemistry, life sciences, cognitive sciences, humanities, etc.).

The newly recruited fellows will join one of the laboratories of PSL depending on their profile.