Human-centered Interactive Data Analysis and Ai in Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities

**Department of Informatics**
**Human-Centered Interactive Data Analysis and AI in Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities 30 - 100 %**: Start of employment 01.10.2024, temporary

The Interactive Visual Data Analysis (IVDA) Group at the University of Zurich is seeking a talented Research Assistant (M/F/d) at the intersection of visual analytics, interactive machine learning, and human-centered AI.

**Your responsibilities**:
We are pursuing a human-centered approach to data science, machine learning, and AI, to foster human involvement in the data analysis process rather than replacing them. In the context of the digitalization, data-driven research and decision-making, human-machine collaboration, and human-centered AI, we will study human workflows, identify and preserve steps with high human intellectuality, and establish practices of both high human control and automation. Together, we will address data-oriented challenges such as multivariate, multimodal, heterogeneous, dirty, uncertain, or unlabeled data. Important model-oriented challenges include data preprocessing, model building, model quality assessment, and model explanation. User-oriented challenges include varying degrees of user expertise, personalization intents, human factors, and understanding and supporting user preferences for data and tasks to contribute to an enhanced user experience.
Your responsibilities focus on the design and implementation of visual analytics solutions in an interdisciplinary research environment. You will work together with members of the IVDA group and collaborate with external domain experts. Your work directly contributes to conduct excellent research, generating results which are published and presented in top international journals and conferences.

**Your profile**:

- Expertise in the fields of Digital Libraries and/or Digital Humanities
- Experience in conducting scientific work and dissemination activities.
- High proficiency in either frontend or backend programming; preferably both
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and ability to work in interdisciplinary teams.
- Expertise in some of the areas: data science, information retrieval, data mining, machine/deep learning, AI, natural language processing, explainable AI, algorithmic fairness, biases, transparency, human-computer interaction, applied research methods, or types of empirical research.

**What we offer**:
**Work-Life Balance**
- Flexible working models (such as part-time positions, mobile working, job-sharing)
- Childcare at the kihz foundation of UZH and ETH

**Learning and Development**
- Wide range of continuing education courses of UZH and the Canton of Zurich
- Language Center run jointly with ETH Zurich

**Food**
- Food and drinks at reduced prices in the UZH cafeterias
- Lunch-Check-card with UZH contribution

**Healthcare**
- Special conditions on the Academic Sports Association ASVZ
- Free seasonal flu vaccinations
- Rest and relaxation at the quiet room in the university tower

**Discounts**
- Private traffic: Carsharing, rent a vehicle, parking space
- Digitalization: Hardware, software, mobile phone subscriptions
- Special conditions on hotel reservations

**Conditions of Employment**
- Policies of the UZH
- Most UZH staff are employed according to public law

**International Services**
- Support for people from outside Switzerland

**Campuses**
- Campuses Zurich City, Zurich Irchel, Oerlikon and Schlieren
- Sites Zurich West, Old Botanical Garden, Botanical Garden and Lengg

**Location**:
**Department of Informatics***:Binzmühlestrasse 14, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland

**Further information**:
**Questions about the job**:
**Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernard**

**Working at UZH**: