Associate Professor in Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence

About the role

The position is based in Australia as an Associate Professor in Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence at UNSW. The role involves driving high-impact research, contributing to strategic direction, and mentoring students.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact research in Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence, integrating neural and symbolic methods, reasoning under uncertainty, knowledge representation, and interpretable AI applied to complex and structured domains.
• Lead research initiatives and secure competitive research funding.
• Supervise higher degree research students to successful completion.
• Deliver high-quality teaching and contribute to curriculum development.
• Implement educational technologies and online delivery methods.
• Engage in strategic initiatives, academic governance, and program development.
• Build strong partnerships with the profession and industry.

Requirements

• A PhD in a related discipline, or relevant work experience.
• Proven commitment to staying updated with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience in teaching and learning design, course and program development, and online delivery methods.
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence.
• Experience in industry or work-integrated learning.
• Ability to develop and lead an inclusive culture of excellence in learning and teaching.
• Significant track record in research leadership with high-quality and high international impact.
• Success in initiating curriculum development and improvement.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives, and values.

Qualifications

• PhD in a related discipline.
• Relevant work experience.
• Proven commitment to staying updated with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience in teaching and learning design, course and program development, and online delivery methods.
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence.
• Experience in industry or work-integrated learning.
• Ability to develop and lead an inclusive culture of excellence in learning and teaching.
• Significant track record in research leadership with high-quality and high international impact.
• Success in initiating curriculum development and improvement.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives, and values.

Skills

• PhD in a related discipline, or relevant work experience.
• Proven commitment to proactively keeping up to date with discipline knowledge and developments.
• Demonstrated experience in teaching and learning design using a range of pedagogical approaches, development and delivery of courses and programs, at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
• Experience of implementing educational technologies and online delivery methods.
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness and passion for educational excellence and fostering this in others.
• Demonstrated experience with industry or work-integrated learning.
• Evidence of professional development of teaching practice in self and others with the ability to advance and lead an inclusive culture of excellence in learning and teaching.
• Evidence of highly developed interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Evidence of ability to support and inspire students from diverse backgrounds and support student equity diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Significant track record in research leadership with outcomes of high quality and high international impact with clear evidence of the desire and ability to continually achieve research excellence and deliver research leadership.
• Excellent record of recruiting and supervising high calibre students.
• Demonstrated leadership in building engagement and partnerships with the profession and industry.
• An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.

Benefits

Competitive salary of AUD $185,917 to $204,218 per annum + 17% superannuation, full-time position, two-year convertible tenure-track or continuing appointment.

Pay

AUD $185,917 to $204,218 per annum + 17% superannuation.

Schedule

Full-time position.