One fully-funded PhD position in Knowledge Graphs and Explainable AI

Looking for a PhD in Knowledge Graphs and Explainable AI?


This PhD project proposes to develop novel approaches for explainable AI
that employ ontologies and knowledge graphs to provide the semantic context
for machine learning prediction explanations.

The work will be supervised by Catia Pesquita

(https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8nGYegMAAAAJ), Assistant
Professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences (FCUL),
University of Lisbon. She is also senior Researcher at LASIGE, where she
coordinates the Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Line of
Excellence.

The LASIGE lab https://lasige.ciencias.ulisboa.pt is the highest-ranked
Computer Science research unit in Portugal, and the University of Lisbon is
a top-200 university.


The candidate will integrate a multidisciplinary research team within
LASIGE with longstanding expertise in knowledge graphs and semantic web
technologies, and their application to data integration and mining in the
biomedical domain.

Candidates should have an MSc or equivalent degree in Computer Science,
Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Life Sciences or related areas.
Candidates should be proficient in programming and the English language.
Multidisciplinary backgrounds are welcome. Research experience is a plus,
particularly in machine learning and/or semantic web.

This position is funded under the La Caixa Incoming Program, aimed at
early-stage researchers not based in Portugal.  Candidates must have
resided or carried out their main activity in Portugal for less than 12
months in the last 3 years.

Fellows enjoy a 3-year contract under the Portuguese labour legislation in
force, respecting health and safety, and social security provisions in a
stimulating research training environment, with access to appropriate
equipment, facilities and opportunities.

More information can be obtained at
https://lasige.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/lacaixa, or by choosing “Country of the
Center” (Portugal) and “Research Center” (LASIGE) in
https://hosts.lacaixafellowships.org/finder.

The deadline for applications is February 4, 2020. For more information
contact clpesquita@ciencias.ulisboa.pt


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Catia Pesquita
http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~catiapesquita/

Assistant Professor
LASIGE,Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa