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The Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI) of the University of Amsterdam invites you to apply for a PhD position in mathematical machine …
The Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI) of the University of Amsterdam invites you to apply for a PhD position in mathematical machine learning. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic researcher (F/M), who likes to work in an internationally oriented environment;
You will be working under supervision of Dr Tim van Erven to design and mathematically analyze new machine learning algorithms. The ambition is to publish at top-level international conferences and journals, like COLT, NeurIPS, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, etc. Possible topics include:
Adaptive Online Learning: Online learning deals with learning algorithms that process data sets sequentially, one data point at a time. Such algorithms play a key role in machine learning for very large data sets, for instance when training deep neural networks. The goal of this project is to develop new online learning algorithms and prove that they are optimal for multiple types of loss functions and under multiple different types of assumptions, without the need to manually tune any hyperparameters.
Mathematical Formalization and Analysis of Explainability Methods: Recently there has been much interest in generating explanations that clarify and communicate how machine learning methods make their decisions. But none of the existing methods gives any formal mathematical guarantees on how well they can be expected to work and under which conditions their explanations can be trusted. The goal of this project is to formalize explainability and to design new methods with provable guarantees.
What are you going to do?
You will:
What do we require?
Knowledge of directly relevant courses like, for instance, the Mastermath course Machine Learning Theory is considered an advantage as is experience in teaching.
Our offer
A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 18 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). This should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. The starting date is flexible, but not later than 1 September 2021.
The salary will be €2,395 to €3,061 (scale P) gross per month, based on a full-time contract of 38 hours a week. This is exclusive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.
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