Job summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant/Associate to undertake work in Natural Language Processing as part of the EPSRC funded “Improving asthma care through personalised risk assessment and support from a conversational agent”. The Research Assistant/Associate will be working with Professor Rafael Calvo (as well as Dorian Peters; and Prof. Jenni Quint) on developing theory and methods to for the design of ethical... Job listing information
Key information about the roleJob descriptionJob summaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant/Associate to undertake work in Natural Language Processing as part of the EPSRC funded “Improving asthma care through personalised risk assessment and support from a conversational agent”. The Research Assistant/Associate will be working with Professor Rafael Calvo (as well as Dorian Peters; and Prof. Jenni Quint) on developing theory and methods to for the design of ethical conversational agents that help people with asthma learn about their risks and know how to, and are motivated to, manage them better. Responsibilities and duties include developing research objectives and proposals; preparing human research ethics applications; developing algorithms; analysing statistical data; writing presentations and publications. The role will combine your computer science expertise to our healthcare and design research. The new activities aim to develop the body of evidence on the design of intelligent systems that support wellbeing, building on research in psychology and design practice. Duties and responsibilitiesKey Responsibilities The activities associated with this post are: Develop NLP algorithms for sentiment analysis, Named Entity Recognition and classification Develop new conversational agent technology using Rasa, voiceflow and other technologies Evaluate how biases in pretrained language models and transformers can be reduced or eliminated Collect data either through direct recruitment or through collaboration with our other projects Analyse data using various statistical techniques, including preforming path analysis. Publish original research on NLP and HCI Maintain accurate and complete records of all findings Assist with the writing of reports to research sponsors Present findings to colleagues Assist with the publication of findings Attend relevant workshops and conferences as necessary Develop contacts within the College and the wider community Promote the reputation of the Group, the Department and the College In addition, at Research Associate level: Take initiatives in the planning of research Write reports for submission to research sponsors Submit publications to refereed journals Provide guidance to staff and students Contribute to bids for research grants Conduct and plan own scientific work with appropriate supervision. Maintain highly organised and accurate record of experimental Work. Actively participate in the research programme of the Group Publish in high quality journals and present data at national and international meetings. Participate in Group research meetings and internal seminars Collaborate with other allied scientists within Imperial College and elsewhere in London and abroad, as appropriate Contribute to the smooth running of the Group’s laboratories and, facilities with other scientists, clinicians, technicians and students within the laboratories Essential requirementsEducation PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Human-Computer Interaction Knowledge & Experience Experience conducting Natural Language Processing research. Evidence of previous work in multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder environments. Programming in Python Skills & Abilities Willingness to work flexibly in order to achieve project demands Ability to organise and prioritise own work and organise research within the project timetable Ability to conduct a detailed review of recent literature Further information*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as Research Assistant within the salary range £36,694 - £39,888 per annum.
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