Fully funded PhD international studentship on probabilistic ML+HCI with Rod Murray-Smith and myself, linked with the DIFAI ERC Project project and Aegean Airlines. Retweets very welcome. findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

Deadline extended

A new PhD position in Optimal interaction mechanism design, available as part of the DIFAI ERC Project project. Open to all nationalities. Supervised by John Williamson findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

If you've ever wondered what happens between a touch detection and a UI activation on Android devices, my colleague Andrew Ramsay has written a very deep dive on every step of the process, from device driver to UI listeners: difai-project.org/android_touch_…

You will work with me, Blair Archibald , and Muffy Calder on Milner's bigraphs, probabilistic model checking, statically typed programming languages, and data-driven runtime models for digital twinning. UofG Computing Science TransitTwin

Markus Klar presenting our poster on Intermittent Active Inference at IWAI in Oxford.

We look forward to applicants!

'Is One GPU Enough? Pushing Image Generation at Higher-Resolutions with Foundation Models' was presented at NeurIPS Conference Led by Thanos & Marco Aversa, with Chaitanya Kaul Daniele Faccio and myself. Demos, paper and code at: thanos-db.github.io/Pixelsmith/ QuantIC Dotphoton

Ph.D. studentship available at UofG Computing Science with Aegean Airlines. Model-based shared autonomy via active inference, Supervised by Sebastian Stein and Rod Murray-Smith . Application deadline, 31st January 2025. Fully funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend). difai-project.org/aegeanphd.html

Want to study human models for AI and interactive systems? We have a postdoc position open👇

We review Active Inference and how it could be applied to model the human-computer interaction loop. Active Inference and Human-Computer Interaction arxiv.org/abs/2412.14741 with Rod Murray-Smith John Williamson Sebastian Stein in the DIFAI ERC project, difai-project.org

Reflecting on 20 years of #MobileHCI papers: How has the community evolved? My blog post examines submission trends, global collaborations, and the challenges shaping MobileHCI. Read more: sven-mayer.com/2025/01/12/20-… #HCI #AcademicResearch MobileHCI 2025 ACM SIGCHI Association for Computing Machinery

These posts are highly relevant for academics working in Active inference research

📣9th Summer School on Computational Interaction in June in Paris🇫🇷. Speakers include Lydia Chilton, John Williamson, Laure Soulier, Jean Claude Dreher and myself. Application deadline March 14th. cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr

Apply for a fully-funded PhD developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to human-computer interaction in tightly-coupled control loops. All nationalities can apply. Supervised by John Williamson in the DIFAI Project. Deadline 7th April. shorturl.at/MAMKH

Ph.D. studentship available at UofG Computing Science with Aegean Airlines. Model-based shared autonomy via active inference, Supervised by Sebastian Stein and Rod Murray-Smith Application deadline, 30th June 2025. Fully funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend). difai-project.org/aegeanphd.html

Internships are available for existing Ph.D. students on the DIFAI project in Glasgow. (Deadline 31st July 2025) difai-project.org/index.html#vac…

Apply for a fully-funded PhD developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to human-computer interaction in tightly-coupled control loops. All nationalities can apply. Supervised by John Williamson in the DIFAI Project. Deadline 31st August. findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

2 year postdoc position on the DIFAI Project. difai-project.org Deadline 17th Sept. The ideal candidate will be someone with a strong background in HCI theory, strong development skills, able to prototype new interactive systems with ML & sensors jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF599/res…

Our paper "Active Inference and Human–Computer Interaction" has been accepted in ACM TOCHI dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… John Williamson Sebastian Stein Rod Murray-Smith