Precall "Bilateral AI" (50 PhDs, 10 Postdocs), fall 2024

Dear colleagues,

The following announcement may be highly interesting particularly for Semantic Web and/or Knowledge Graphs researchers…
If you want to know more, please don’t hesitated to get in touch with me directly!

Axel

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Prof. Dr. Axel Polleres
Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management,
Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, WU Vienna
url: http://www.polleres.net/


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Subject: Precall "Bilateral AI" (50 PhDs, 10 Postdocs), fall 2024

Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence

Pre-Call for Applications

For the recently established Cluster of Excellence CoE Bilateral Artificial
Intelligence (BILAI), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we are
looking for more than 50 PhD students and 10 Post-Doc researchers (m/f/d)
to  join our team at one of the six leading research institutions across Austria
(see below).
In BILAI, major Austrian players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are
teaming up to work towards Broad AI. As opposed to Narrow AI, which is
characterized by task-specific skills, Broad AI
seeks to address a wide array of problems, rather than being limited to a
single task or domain. To develop its foundations, BILAI employs a Bilateral
AI approach, effectively combining sub-symbolic AI (neural networks and
machine learning) with symbolic AI (logic, knowledge representation, and
reasoning) in various ways.
Harnessing the full potential of both symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches
can open new avenues for AI, enhancing its ability to solve novel problems,
adapt to diverse environments, improve reasoning skills, and increase
efficiency in computation and data use. These key features enable a broad
range of applications for Broad AI, from drug development and medicine to
planning and scheduling, autonomous traffic management, and recommendation
systems. Prioritizing fairness, transparency, and explainability, the
development of Broad AI is crucial for addressing ethical concerns and
ensuring a positive impact on society.

The research team is committed to cross-disciplinary work in order to provide
theory and models for future AI and deployment to applications.


CoE Research Institutions:
    Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU Linz)
    Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
    Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU)
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
    Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz)
    Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Wien)

Board of directors:
    Sepp Hochreiter (JKU Linz)
     Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien)
     Thomas Eiter (TU Wien)
     Gerhard Friedrich (AAU)
     Christoph Lampert (ISTA)
     Robert Legenstein (TU Graz)
     Axel Polleres (WU Wien)
    Martina Seidl (JKU Linz)

The call for applications will open on *** September 1,*** 2024. For more
information, see http://www.bilateral-ai.net<http://www.bilateral-ai.net/>

Stay tuned