Two PhD Positions on Human-aligned Video-AI

3 weken geleden

Amsterdam, Nederland Universiteit van Amsterdam Voltijd

What are you going to do

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Foundational video AI requires self-supervised multimodal learning that models motion dynamics, audio perception and contextual semantics, while reducing the associated computational costs. Furthermore, a good video AI model requires having enhanced generalization capability such that it can be adapted via prompt learning or instruction tuning to various downstream application domains in a parameter-efficient fashion.

This is especially important for video understanding applications, where annotating large amounts of data is extremely expensive, error-prone and sensitive to annotator bias, or simply only available in limited amounts due to privacy or societal concerns. However, most current works in video self-supervised learning do not consider these more human-aligned conditions. For both PhD positions, you will research video AI in a human-aligned manner, with one position focusing on public safety and the other one on surgical skills.

Public safety. Video AI has the potential to detect unsafe behavior and situations from camera recordings and provide unique insights, for example statistics on crimes that are currently undetected, unregistered and unreported, or on incidences of self-policing and helping. However, specialist knowledge about behavior during subtle incidences of such interactions is needed to deal with human biases present in existing data. This requires new video-AI algorithms recognizing subtle and fine-grained behavior without perpetuating unwanted biases, as well as research into the societal integration of such algorithms.

Surgical skills. For this position, you will research how video AI can be developed and safeguarded against annotation biases; and how to align complex annotations with video data when it comes to deployment in settings developed for assessing surgical skills. Moreover, you will investigate how multimodal video-AI algorithms can be developed in an ethically sound manner, and further trained to reliably assess surgical trainees in skills settings.

Your tasks will be to:

Perform novel research towards video AI and its human-alignment in society.  Actively collaborate within the interdisciplinary HAVA Lab.  Present research results at international conferences and journals.  Be active in sharing your research in the public as well as in the social domain, according to UvA Guidelines. Assist in teaching activities such as lab assistance and student supervision.  Pursue and complete a PhD thesis within the appointed duration of four years. 

What do you have to offer?

A relevant Masters degree to the PhD topic of interest. Our ideal PhD candidate has a background in artificial intelligence and affinity with either the social and behavioural sciences or medical sciences. Affinity with interdisciplinary research in Artificial Intelligence.  Interest in developing skills required in complementary disciplines.  Experience with programming in Python, computer vision and machine learning. You are highly motivated, independent, and creative.  Strong communication, presentation and writing skills and excellent command of English. 

Our offer

A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 18 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. This should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. We also expect you to assist in teaching undergraduates and master students.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 2, in the first year to € 3, in the last year (scale P). UvA additionally offers an extensive package of secondary benefits, including 8% holiday allowance and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. The UFO profile PhD Candidate is applicable. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The is applicable.

Besides the salary and a vibrant and challenging environment we offer you multiple fringe benefits:

holiday hours per year (based on fulltime) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January; Multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre; A complete educational program for PhD students; Multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with + different courses; 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with % salary; Partly paid parental leave; The possibility to set up a workplace at home; A pension at ABP for which UvA pays two third part of the contribution; The possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch; Help with housing for a studio or small apartment when you’re moving from abroad

Are you curious to read more about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits, take a look here.

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