The School of Computing & Communications invites applications for a full-time PhD studentship for a new and exciting research programme in software engineering that tackles a fundamental issue of our time, Human-AI collaboration.
The successful candidate is expected to start in February 2024 or soon after that.date.
The selected candidate will investigate methods to represent and reason about human (and group) behaviour and capabilities to enable their collaboration with autonomous agents (e.g., robots). The aim is to enable collaboration between humans and autonomous agents via coordination and adaptation.
The aim of the project is to improve the resilience of emergency care and improve emergency response through collaboration between humans and robots. The PhD student will have the unique opportunity to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team from the disciplines of Computer Science and Emergency care and with stakeholders ranging from developers and emergency responders to regulators and end users. The studentship is designed to offer exceptional access to resources, training and career development and networking opportunities.
This is an opportunity to join a thriving multidisciplinary research team working closely with a large industrial partner and collaborating with world-leading academic institutes in the UK and Ireland.
The studentship is designed to offer exceptional access to resources, training and career development and networking opportunities.
The research will be carried out as part of a UKRI/EPSRC-funded project REsilient Autonomous SOcio-cyber-physical ageNts (REASON), within the Open University (OU) Software Engineering and Design (SEAD) group, and in collaboration with a number of partner universities.
More details about the studentship, including who to contact for clarifications, can be found at:
https://www.open.ac.uk/stem/computing-and-communications/node/247
This funded studentship is open to both UK and international students.
This studentship is for three years and covers tuition fees, a tax-free stipend (£15,609 in the first year, then increased in line with inflation) and a research allowance (£1,500 per annum). The successful candidate will be based at The Open University’s campus in Milton Keynes, which combines a friendly and flexible working environment with exceptional research and computing facilities. Milton Keynes is centrally located between Oxford, Cambridge, London and Birmingham.
In preparing you application, you may wish to read the following related papers.
Application cut-off date: 31st December 2023
Start dates: 1st February 2024 or soon after that date.
For application guidance, please visit https://www.open.ac.uk/stem/computing-and-communications/phd-students/how-apply . Your research proposal should briefly summarise related work and outline how you would approach the problem.
Informal enquiries are welcome. Please email amel.bennaceur@open.ac.uk (with a short CV if possible).
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