<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">PhD Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">On Diversity-Aware Interaction Models</span> </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) offers a <b class="">three and a half year scholarship</b> for students pursuing a <b class="">full-time PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence</b> in the areas of multiagent systems, interaction models, and semantic alignment. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The position, led by Dr Nardine Osman and Dr Marco Schorlemmer, is offered in the context of WENET, a high-profile international research project funded under the European Commission’s H2020 programme.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">WeNet aims at providing a diversity-aware, machine-mediated paradigm of social relations. Technology has evolved to a point where humans from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences have an unprecedented ability to connect with each other. Yet technology does not in-and-by-itself provide support for developing and maintaining the social relationships that transcend geographical and cultural backgrounds. WeNet's goal is connecting people that can support each other, and the key is leveraging their diversity. The WeNet paradigm includes a family of computational diversity-aware models supporting human interaction: learning models, diversity-aware search, diversity alignment mechanisms that lift communication barriers, and diversity-aware incentive mechanisms that generates incentives for people to support each other. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The IIIA-CSIC, located on the UAB campus, belongs to the Spanish National Research Council, Spain’s largest public institution devoted to research and technological development. The IIIA-CSIC is a leading research centre in Europe in the areas of multiagent systems, machine learning, and uncertainty reasoning. It attracts funding from the European, Spanish, and Catalan governments and has substantial collaborative research projects with industry.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Requirements.</b> Candidates are required to have a high-quality master’s degree in computer science or related fields (or have completed equivalent qualifications allowing PhD studies), have good communication skills in English, and be able to demonstrate strong motivation to conduct research.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Salary.</b> €20.811,14 gross annual salary in 14 payments of €1.486,51 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Start Date.</b> 01 January 2019, at the earliest</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Application.</b> Candidates should send their application by email to Dr Nardine Osman (<a href="mailto:nardine@iiia.csic.es" class="">nardine@iiia.csic.es</a>) and include a zip file containing, in PDF:</div><div class="">- a short statement, in English, of why the candidate is interested in this position,</div><div class="">- the candidate’s complete CV, including the name and contact information of at least two referees,</div><div class="">- a copy of the candidate’s academic degrees and transcripts, and </div><div class="">- any relevant scientific publications, if applicable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Closing date for applications. 23 November 2018</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For further information please contact Dr Nardine Osman at <a href="mailto:nardine@iiia.csic.es" class="">nardine@iiia.csic.es</a></div></body></html>