Postdoctoral Fellowship in Fairness Research in Machine Learning (FairML) – CSIRO
Closes 31 August.
Do you have a PhD in machine learning, computer science, statistics or applied mathematics? Keen to conduct cutting-edge machine learning research? Join the CSIRO Data61 team for this exciting 3-year postdoctoral role.
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.
Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly used to inform high-stake, human-centric decisions including credit scoring and sentencing in the judiciary system. But ML algorithms are well-known to exhibit biases disadvantaging people from certain ethnicities and genders. Fairness research has contributed more equitable algorithms and has increased our understanding on different bias sources. However, an understanding of how these bias sources combine to forge the overall bias is still lacking. This project aims to disentangle ML-bias into algorithmic and data bias focussing on intersectional subgroups. The techniques developed can then be used to analyse biases in threatened species management and human-machine collaboration.
- Location: Clayton, Victoria with the opportunity to travel to Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane
- Salary: AU$92k – AU$101k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
- Tenure: Specified term of 3 years