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University College Cork

Post-Doctoral Researcher Insight Centre for Data Analytics

Cork

August 16, 2024

Post-Doctoral Researcher Insight Centre for Data Analytics

Up to 16 Months, Fixed-Term, Whole-time Post

Position Summary

Applications are invited for the post of Post-Doctoral Researcher to join the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, based at the School of Computer Science & I.T., University College Cork, Ireland. The appointed candidate will work on a project in deep reinforcement learning with multiple objectives and agents, with application to problems in risk analysis from fields such as diplomacy and security. This is an opportunity to work in a world-class research centre on applying state-of-the-art machine learning methods to complex and interesting problems.

Ideally the candidate should have a background in deep learning, especially deep reinforcement learning. Knowledge of multi-objective optimisation, game theory or adversarial risk analysis would also be useful but not vital.

About Insight

The Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics (http://www.insight-centre.org) is an SFI funded Research Centre that brings together researchers from University College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, and Dublin City University, as well as other partner institutions, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University of Limerick (UL), Maynooth University (MU) and Tyndall National Institute. It creates a critical mass of more than 400 researchers from Ireland's leading ICT clusters to carry out research on a new generation of data analytics technologies in a number of key application domain areas, such as Health and Human Performance, Smart Communities, Internet of Things, Enterprise and Services and Sustainability and Operations.

Project Title: Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Post Duration: Up to 16 months

Salary: €44,347 - €50,805 (IUA PD1 Salary Scale)

For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/.

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Steve Prestwich, Dr, School of Computer Science and IT, email: prestwich@cs.ucc.ie

Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to recruitment@ucc.ie, quoting the job-title and project name.

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday, 30th August 2024.

No late applications will be accepted.

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector.

UCC is committed to creating and fully embracing an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. As a University we strive to create a workplace that reflects the diversity of our student population where people from a wide variety of backgrounds learn from one another, share ideas, and work collaboratively. UCC is committed to being an employer that recognises the value of diversity amongst its staff. We encourage applicants to consult our policies at https://www.ucc.ie/en/edi/policies/ and initiatives at https://www.ucc.ie/en/edi/implementation/ and we welcome applications of everyone, including those who are underrepresented in the protected characteristics set out in our Equal Opportunities & Diversity Policy.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

Contact Person :

Steve Prestwich

Contact Email :

prestwich@cs.ucc.ie

Job ID :

079251

Contact Number :

Close Date :

30-Aug-2024 12:00

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