PI - Postdoctoral Position in the DEUSTEK/MORElab team

The DEUSTEK/MORElab research group at the University of Deusto is seeking postdoctoral candidates to join the Faculty of Engineering. The research topic is to fusion Hybrid Intelligence and Internet of People, in which Artificial and Human Intelligence get together to create smarter and sustainable environments.

Research Area

Human intelligence and AI each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Machines are effective and efficient for discovering implicit knowledge or hidden patterns from large-scale data, whereas humans are good at conducting cognitive analysis such as reasoning, inference, and making instinct judgments by taking into consideration dynamic and multiple factors. They do not have to be competitive, mutually exclusive, or one dominating/replacing another. One way to address the above two issues is to marry the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of human intelligence and AI, making them work in collaboration and cooperation. To this end, the latest research endeavour, coined as Hybrid Human–Artificial Intelligence (H-AI), has emerged. H-AI is dedicated to investigating models, methods, technologies, and systems that enable and support the synergy, symbiosis, and augmentation of human- and machine-driven intelligence. Likewise, the Internet of People (IoP) concept arises. IoP is a new paradigm that represents the mapping of social individuals and their interactions with smart devices to the Internet. It focuses on data collection, modelling, analysis and ubiquitous intelligence for a wide range of applications of crowd sourced, Internet-based personal information. 

The DEUSTEK/MORElab research group aims at growing its ongoing positioning on the way Hybrid Intelligence and Internet of People are shaped and framed. This explains why  the group seeks a new postdoctoral candidate. The DEUSTEK/MORElab group has a strong background in humanizing technology, i.e. giving place to more human-centric and human-driven, application of Data Science, IoT and Human Interaction technologies. Such research aim encompasses  sustainable awareness rising through IoT, empowering the citizen towards participating in the city daily decisions and governance, or engaging employees towards promoting healthy or sustainable habits in the workplace avoiding attrition of campaigns.

This position aims to explore the ample potential of smart solutions and environments grounded on the extensive usage of data and analytics mediated by the collaboration of machines and humans. Departing from the “V”, i.e. Variety attribute of Big Data field, we are interested on bringing together structured and non-structured data from heterogeneous sources, namely personal sensing devices, IoT sensor networks, Open Government Data, Satellite data, user-generated in-situ data through apps or social networks and even private data. The research position should face the challenge of how to make sense out of data, progressing from data into knowledge, through the collaboration of people and machines, in order to address societal challenges.

The objectives of the position are:

• Publishing in high impact journals (WoS)
• Working in competitive projects (Basque Government, Mineco, Horizon Europe...)
• Submitting competitive research proposals.

Places available: 1

Campus: Bilbao

Deadline for submitting applications: Tuesday, April 8, 2022