[Infovis] Postdoctoral Position at King's College London

[Abdul Rahman, Alfie]

Dear All,

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral position at King’s College London with a starting date of 1 April 2022. Job advertisement below.

Best regards,
Alfie
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Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman
Lecturer in Computer Science
Department of Informatics
King’s College London - Strand Campus
Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG
Office: Bush House (S) 5.05
Email: alfie.abdulrahman at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:alfie.abdulrahman at kcl.ac.uk>
Phone: I am currently working remotely and will not be able to make or receive calls
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Job advert: https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/033966/Research-Associate
Closing date: 7 Nov 2021

Job description
This is a 2-year research post at the post-doctoral level. The successful candidates will contribute to “Narrating Complexity: Exploring Multi-Actor Timelines”, a collaborative project between King’s College London and the University of Oxford, funded by EPSRC.

Project overview:
“Narrating Complexity” is a multi-disciplinary project, with the ambitious goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in static and interactive displays of multi-actor timelines – that is datasets where a long series of individual events are captured, involving many separate actors interacting across time. This project will address the technical challenges involved in the formal definition of such timelines, drawing on two separate datasets to capture the underlying similarities between them – one taken from social media such as Twitter and Facebook – and the other from formal decision-making processes involving negotiation, for example, legislative assemblies (as described in the Quill Platform https://www.quillproject.net/).

This project is conducted in collaboration with the Quill Project at the University of Oxford. The Quill Project, which provides use cases for the project such as the formal discussions of a legislative setting (for example, the European Union Withdrawal Acts (Brexit legislation)).

The candidate will be responsible for conducting research around data visualization to aid in the understanding and presenting time-sequence data, particularly data consisting of many actors interacting over a long period. Tasks will involve structuring a design space, designing visualizations, developing compression and filtering algorithms of timelines, developing a framework and software for human-in-the-loop interactive visual analytics that will improve comprehension, analysis, and story-presentation of the information captured both from social media and data sets derived from formal decision-making processes. The candidate will collaborate with other RAs working on the project and may be involved in the co-supervision of Ph.D. and Master's students.

The post holder will work closely with Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman at the Department of Informatics, King’s College London, and project partner at the University of Oxford.

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 24 months

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent