PhD candidate in Computer Science within FNR-funded Doctoral Training Unit on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Digital History (D4H)

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The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.

The I nterdisciplinary L aboratory for I ntelligent and A daptive S ystems (ILIAS) is concerned with all aspects relating to Artificial Intelligence. In particularly, the theoretical foundations and the algorithmic realization of data and information processing systems, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Applications, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, and Reasoning in complex and dynamic environments given limited resources and incomplete or uncertain information. ILIAS supports an interdisciplinary working with the interdisciplinary centres and all other faculties of the university, the HPC, and national and European institutions.

As part of ILIAS and embedded in the Department of Computer Science (DCS) of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), AI Robolab led by Prof Leon van der Torre is looking for a PhD student in computer science within the framework of the FNR-funded research training group "Deep Data Science of Digital History". This is conducted jointly with historians, among others.



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