Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Applications are invited for a full time post-doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), funded by the Schmidt Sciences Foundation.

This position is being hired for a project working on novel solutions at the interface of AI, knowledge graphs, computer vision, and the digital humanities. The goal is to develop an innovative AI architecture that is flexible and extensible enough to serve as a knowledge representation framework for the humanities. The current working prototype for this unique design avoids the pitfalls of traditional knowledge graph architecture, is transparent and interpretable, allows queries of high complexity, and has the ability to perform reasoning and generate novel insights from the represented data.

The researcher will work with Dr Sebastian Ahnert, head of the Structural Complexity research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and an affiliate of Cambridge Digital Humanities. They will also collaborate closely with teams of faculty and researchers at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, and at the DensityDesign Lab at the Politecnico di Milano.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistantresearch-associate-fixed-term-nq49054