University of Edinburgh opens AI faculty position at top-ranked informatics school
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-09-26
The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh — ranked #1 in the UK for CS research power (REF 2021) and top-two in Europe for AI per CSRankings — is hiring an AI faculty member. Target areas include perception and interactive decision-making, continual open-ended self-improving AI, agentic AI and world models, embodied perception, reinforcement learning, decision-making under uncertainty, and long-duration autonomy.
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