School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Location:      Greenwich
Salary:      £33,199 to £38,460 plus £3640 London weighting per annum
Contract Type:      Fixed Term - 18 Months
Closing Date:      Monday 09 September 2019
Interview Date:      To be confirmed

An opportunity has arisen for a post-doctoral research fellow to work in the EU HORIZON 2020 project “EUNOMIA: User-oriented, secure, trustful and decentralised social media”. The overall project deals with the development of an infrastructure and associated digital companion for assisting social media users in determining how trustworthy a piece of information posted online is. The specific research post relates to the machine learning and data analytics element of the project to extract and produce trustworthiness information that is contextually useful to a user, where sources may include post context and content analysis as well as a human-as-a-trust-sensor system and a reputation mechanism developed in the project.

This is an exciting opportunity to participate in a new area of research and in the process collaborate with our prestigious project partners, including key players in software engineering, information verification, blockchain, social media, social journalism and traditional media.

Within the project, you will be responsible for developing software for collecting data, determining what can be visualised to the user, as well as how to assist a user in deriving their own conclusions regarding the veracity of a piece of information. As part of this work, you will develop techniques for optimising the identification and management of information cascades in social media. This research will be expected to be published at a premier related journal.

You will need to be a highly competent software developer with experience in machine learning, ideally in the context of social media, information trustworthiness or natural language processing, as well as have high-impact research publications in related areas. A PhD in computer science, mathematics or engineering is essential.

This post is fixed term for 18 months, which may be extended further.

Before applying, you may wish to contact Dr. George Loukas (g.loukas@gre.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

Please note that previous applicants need not apply.

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