PhD position in Machine learning in science and society A Dangerous Toy?

Are you interested in philosophical questions surrounding how machine learning and AI models are being used across society for social prediction, like facial recognition, recidivism risk, or job screening? Check out this PhD position! **Your job**: The same machine learning methods that are unprecedently used across large areas of science are also wide...

About the OpportunityAs a PhD candidate at Universiteit Utrecht, you will contribute to groundbreaking research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and help develop more fair and robust models. The DataDivers project, funded by an ERC Starting grant, aims to improve data quality and collection methods for NLP.Your RoleYou will work closely with the project...

Science communication often involves hyped, overly broad claims about research findings. What are the causes, social epistemological risks, and who’s responsible? In this PhD project, you will be researching these questions. **Your job**: We are offering a fully funded four-year PhD position to a researcher interested in philosophically and experimentally...

Dit ga je doen Together with experienced professionals in our STRAD MD project team, you will work with the STRAD MD federated learning platform. This platform is being set up at the UMC Utrecht and at one or more locations of the large mental health organizations Arkin and Parnassia Group so that research projects involving sensitive data from large...

Dive into data diversity to make Natural Language Processing (NLP) models more fair and robust!Are you passionate about fair and robust Natural Language Processing (NLP), data, and computational social science/sociolinguistics? Join our new ambitious DataDivers project funded by an ERC Starting grant and help us make NLP models more fair and robust.Your...

Are you interested in university change agent education and how it leads to societal impact? The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is offering a combined PhD - Lecturer position for someone with strong data analytics skills and a keen interest in different forms of change agent education. **Your job**: Universities are increasingly expected to...

PhD student SciML4Medicine: electrocardiography analysis with mathematical modeling and deep learning.**Elke dag de zorg en de gezondheid van mensen verbeteren**Goede arbeidsvoorwaarden**Jezelf continu blijven ontwikkelen vinden we belangrijk** **Dit ga je doen** Are you interested in the cross-section of science and machine learning applied to heatlth...

Join our team at the Social and Affective Computing group and develop responsible algorithms that improve treatment decisions.This PhD project is part of an NWO-funded KiC project: ‘Responsible Scaling of Data-driven Approaches for Enhancing Mental Healthcare’. You will collaborate with UMC Utrecht, as well as external partners including InfoSupport,...

**Your job**: The disclosure of several high-profile cases of child sexual abuse in sports around the world has drawn renewed public attention to the sports setting as a conducive context for interpersonal violence against children. Interpersonal violence against and between children has a major impact on children’s well-being. However, it does not happen...

At Sticky, we are seeking a PhD candidate to join our team and contribute to the development of AI-assisted systematic reviewing tools. This is an exciting opportunity for a researcher with a passion for understanding human bias in AI-driven processes.About the ProjectThe project 'Transparent and Reproducible AI-aided Systematic Reviewing for the Social...

**Your job**: In recent years, there has been a significant surge of interest in networks, which now play a fundamental role in modern science and society. The network-like structures are widely discussed, from cosmology and communication to economics and ecology. Even at the nanoscale, in materials science, they may offer potential theoretical explanations...

Are you interested in techno-economic optimisation and comparison of novel electrified processes for the large scale synthesis of platform molecules? Join the Energy & Resources group of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development for this exciting PhD project! **Your job**: Societal relevance: The transition to a CO2 net-zero society requires a...

Are you passionate about developing cutting-edge AI techniques to enhance interaction and communication across multiple modalities? Join this project!Are you passionate about developing cutting-edge AI techniques to enhance interaction and communication across multiple modalities, such as text, pictures, audio, and video? Join the large scale HAICu project...

Are you passionate about fair and robust Natural Language Processing (NLP), data, and computational social science/sociolinguistics? Join our new ambitious DataDivers project funded by an ERC Starting grant and help us make NLP models more fair and robust. **Your job**: The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the availability of massive datasets have...

The immune system helps plants resist pathogen infections and has been well studied. However, it becomes increasingly clear that enhancing defense comes at a cost, as plants slow down growth even if the infection is successfully combatted. In this project, you will investigate how plants control their growth during and after an immune response. This research...

The immune system helps plants resist pathogen infections and has been well studied. However, it becomes increasingly clear that enhancing defense comes at a cost, as plants slow down growth even if the infection is successfully combatted. In this project, you will investigate the poorly understood process of how plants control their growth during and after...

Let’s optimize the information content in a light field!Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of measurement technology? In this position, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the precision of device position and orientation measurements, essential for cutting-edge technology fabrication. Your work will contribute to enhancing industrial...

A 3-year post-doc research position on machine learning for medical imaging to explore and prototype new AI techniques for precision care, to provide support to PhD students, and to deploy research results for testing in a clinical environment.**Elke dag de zorg en de gezondheid van mensen verbeteren**Goede arbeidsvoorwaarden**Jezelf continu blijven...

Optimize information content in light fields to advance precision measurements for cutting-edge technology fabrication. Join our research group at Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, as a PhD researcher to explore fundamental and applied aspects of multi-modal optical measurements.About the JobThis four-year PhD project involves extending our...

Join us and help make AI-supported technologies in education more transparent and controllable. **Your job**: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in educational technologies to support and enhance learning and teaching. Examples include adaptive learning trajectories, automating feedback, and detecting students with additional needs....