[Opt-Net] PhD Position in Causal AI for Public Health

[Vyacheslav Kungurtsev]

Structured Graphical Models for Causal Inference is an increasingly
important class of Machine Learning techniques, especially in
applications of public health and medicine. Using careful well-principled
structure in the modeling, conclusions can be reached regarding the
cause-effect, rather than simply correlational influence, with far
reaching implications for understanding and treatment/policy.

The development, analysis, training and inference of these models is
highly nontrivial, and involves an array of tools from statistics
and information theory along with optimization and numerical
analysis. As part of a Horizon Europe EU-wide project, we are
seeking motivated and competent PhD students to pursue research in
the associated fields.

As part of this position, we seek a PhD student with a background in
computer science, statistics, and/or applied mathematics to work on
probabilistic graphical models subject to potentially time varying
trends and exhibiting potential for causal inference. The project
will involve developing new models, proving statistical properties
thereof, developing techniques to adequately train them with strong
accuracy and generalization, and testing them on real biomedical and
public health data.

The PhD student will be supervised jointly by Vyacheslav Kunurtsev
and Ondrej Kuzelka at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the
Department of Computer Science.

A preference is given to candidates with experience in programming,
especially (but not limited to) Python

Czech Technical University (CTU) is the oldest non-military technical
university in Europe. In the academic year 2020/21, CTU offered 130 degree
programs in Czech and 84 in English. CSRankings.org currently ranks the
Department of Computer Science at number 6 in Europe within AI and Computer
Vision, after Technion, ETH Zurich, Imperial, Max Planck Society, and EPFL.
The Czech capital regularly ranks among five European cities within the
world's best cities in the world to live in (cf. Time Out Magazine index
for 2021) and CTU’s offices are in a centrally-located palace with a view
of Prague Castle. For more information, please see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague


We expect to start interviewing candidates as soon as possible, with
a view of a start between January and September 2023. Please write
vyacheslav.kungurtsev at fel.cvut.cz
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