Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant (pre-doctoral) or Research Associate (post-doctoral) to conduct world-leading research on Leveraging Ontological Knowledge with Argumentative Agentic AI to Accelerate Chemical Development under the direction of Prof Alexei Lapkin.

The project is a collaboration with Prof Francesca Toni from Imperial College London, Dr Antonio Rago from Kings College London and industrial collaborators within the AIChemy Hub (https://aichemy.ac.uk/). The successful candidate will focus on extending the ontological knowledge base of chemical process development and extending the simulation environment of process models, recently developed in the group of Prof. Lapkin based in Cambridge and in Singapore (in Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore).

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of reinforcement learning agents operating with the knowledge base and the simulation environment. The developed knowledge base will provide data for advanced argumentative agentic AI based on reinforcement learning being developed at Imperial College London and Kings College. The project will develop an approach of including ontological knowledge base and expert knowledge within a multi-agentic AI framework. 

https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistantresearch-associate-fixed-term-nq49413