[Athena] Post-doc "éthique et informatique"

[Philippe NABONNAND <Philippe.Nabonnand AT univ-lorraine.fr>]

Bonjour

Pour info et plus si affinités.

Bien cordialement

Philippe Nabonnand



Chers collègues,

Veuillez trouver ci-dessous une offre de post-doc à Nancy.

L'offre est rédigée en anglais car il s'agit d'un projet européen et le 
poste nécessite une très bonne maîtrise de cette langue.

Bien cordialement,

Karen Fort


JOB DESCRIPTION

This post-doc contract is funded by the EU Horizon2020 Artificial 
Intelligence for improved PROduction efFICIEncy, quality and maiNTenance 
(AI-PROFICIENT) project.

It aims at investigating ethics by design in the context of the industry 
of the future and more particularly the contribution of digitalization 
and Artificial Intelligence to predictive maintenance issues and 
production optimisation including human-system interaction. It is 
therefore situated at the intersection between machine learning ethics, 
human-machines and human-systems interactions and data management 
issues. It represents a unique opportunity to experiment ethics by 
design in a real human-in-the-loop industrial setting.

Considering the above paragraphs, the tasks related with the post-doc 
goals will cover:
- state of the art bibliography and transfert to the manufacturing field;
- design phase: spreading of the ethical concept and issues to all 
partners, elicitation of  ethical consideration in the use case definition;
- development phase: ensuring that ethical issues are understood and 
considered by solution developers, foster the relation between 
developers and users to ensure ethical issues are properly considered;
- in situ evaluation ethics: from design key ethical performance indexes 
definition to workers situation assessment, in order to address the 
benefits and stepbacks between the beginning and the implantation of the 
project.

THE PROJECT
AI-PROFICIENT aims at bringing advanced AI technologies to manufacturing 
and process industry, while improving the production planning and 
execution, and facilitating the collaboration between humans and 
machines. Taking the full advantage of AI capabilities and human 
knowledge, AI-PROFICIENT will develop proactive control strategies to 
improve the manufacturing process over three main vectors: production 
efficiency, quality and maintenance. AI-PROFICIENT will increase the 
positive impact of AI technology on the manufacturing process as a 
whole, while keeping the human in central position, assuming supervisory 
(human-on-the-loop) and executive (human-in-command) roles. 
AI-PROFICIENT intends to identify the effective means for human-machine 
interaction, while respecting the safety and security requirements and 
following the ethical principles, in order to enable: event 
identification and prediction, operation scenarios simulation, 
transparent decision and optimal control, and personalized shop-floor 
assistance.
The pilot sites of the project are the CONTINENTAL tyre manufacturing 
plant in Sarreguemines and the INEOS Olefins & Polymers production sites 
in Geel (Belgium) and Cologne (Germany).

REQUIREMENTS
• PhD in philosophy or computer science/AI with a strong experience in 
ethics, especially ethics by design.
• Candidates with interests in analytical philosophy (e.g. ethics of 
algorithms, ethics of AI, ethics of technology, philosophy of action) 
and strong affinity (or degree in) philosophy of science, epistemology, 
philosophy of technology, philosophy of engineering and computer science 
are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Strong interests in interdisciplinary research.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English (French not required, 
but would be a plus).
• Solid knowledge of the GDPR regulation
• Organizational skills in project management and ability to work in a team.

The post-doc will be integrated in the project and as such will 
participate in meetings, write deliverables, present progress and 
results and initiate publications.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Fixed-term contract: 1 year + 1 year.
Salary according to experience (between €2,100 and €2,900 per month 
before taxes), including the French national health insurance.

EMPLOYER
The future post-doc will be recruited by Université de Lorraine to work 
in Nancy, France, at the LORIA laboratory (https://www.loria.fr/en/), a 
research unit, common to CNRS, the University of Lorraine and INRIA. The 
lab groups more than 400 researchers, which scientific work is conducted 
in 28 teams dealing with fundamental and applied research in computer 
sciences.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
To apply or get more information about this vacancy, you can contact 
Karën Fort and Christophe Cerisara,
emails: karen.fort AT loria.fr and christophe.cerisara AT loria.fr

Please include in your application:
(a) CV (including a list of publications),
(b) motivation letter including names of two references.
Applications will be considered until October 15, or until the position 
is filled.