Lecturer/Associate Professor in Robotics & AI

at  University College London

ABOUT US

UCL’s Department of Computer Science (CS) is a top-ranked Computer Science Department in the UK. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) evaluation, UCL Computer Science was ranked second in the UK for research power and first in England.
The Department of Computer Science was one of the best in the UK and worldwide for computer science, based on the REF’21 and QS’22 evaluations. In the latest REF (2021) it emerged 2nd in the UK and 1st in England for research power by a measure of the average research score multiplied by the volume of staff submissions. We are a large department with over 100 academic staff. We are an experimental computer science department and computer science sits at the nexus of a broad range of interdisciplinary collaborations across UCL.
In our single biggest development since we were founded, UCL is expanding to east London. Located on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, UCL East Campus will be dedicated to disruptive thinking and discovery across disciplines and beyond academic walls, to find solutions to the biggest challenges for future living. We are in Newham, East London -one of the most socially diverse parts of the UK- and we want our staff recruitment to reflect this.
Opened in 2023, UCL East will be a place for creating solutions that change the world. By breaking down barriers and creating new practices in sustainable spaces and best-in-class facilities, we will be giving our staff and students the tools to take their learning and discoveries further. More than just a conventional campus, UCL East represents a future focused mindset. We will deliver new research, technology, and innovation, and more than 50 undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes for up to 4,000 students.

Our vision for Robotics at UCL East Campus is to set up a new robotics powerhouse at UCL. To support our vision, over the next few years, we will be hiring more than 20 research and teaching staff in robotics. The positions advertised here is part of this strategy. To provide world-class facilities at UCL East Campus for research and teaching in Robotics & AI, we are seeking to fill a Lecturer/Associate Professor post in Robotics and AI. Areas that we aim at covering: Machine Learning in Robotics.
Appointment at Lecturer (Grade 8) or Associate Professor (Grade 9) level will be determined by depth of experience and track record. For Grade 9, you will show sustained and repeated contributions to the subject area or body of knowledge, and a sustained publication record, which demonstrates the potential to produce significant contributions to the discipline. All research outputs are available through Open Access wherever possible. You will demonstrate widespread connections across national and/or international subject community, including active collaborations/contact with leading figures in subject area; regular collegiate engagement with colleagues from distinct disciplines on cross-disciplinary issues; network of collaborators or advice-seekers in industry, healthcare, or policy organisations (or similar, depending on discipline context); contacts and networks both domestic and international. You would be expected to demonstrate sustained excellence in all aspects of academic life.
The main purpose of this new role is to support the growth of the Computer Science Department and the Robotics & AI area through conducting research, teaching, outreach, and entrepreneurial activities in areas related to robotics and AI. The role also encompasses being a mentor and a point of contact for emerging talent and support the EDI activities in the department.