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

[Miksch Silvia]

  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

  Stay tuned