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University of Oxford
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Computer Science - Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford The Department of Computer Science is looking to employ a Research Associate to work within a research group, reporting to Prof Yarin Gal. The post holder will be a member of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) research group with responsibility for leading research for projects in Generative AI. Conducting original research, you will develop fundamental methodologies and tools in the context of real-world Generative AI challenges. As a Postdoctoral Researcher, you will lead and contribute to projects aimed at developing principled and practical methods which could be used in real systems. This research requires coping with challenges such as intractable probabilistic inference and robustness. The project will involve both theoretical work as well as empirical analysis on challenging tasks. In addition to research, this role will also assist in providing day-to-day supervision for DPhil students and research assistants, as well as support of grant applications and ongoing grant progress reporting. Project website is It is essential that successful candidate would hold a relevant PhD/DPhil or being close to completion with post-qualification research experience.

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