<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Would you like to contribute to the foundations of neuro-symbolic systems, and be a part of one of the largest interdisciplinary research projects in AI, while working in Amsterdam, a vibrant city with a high quality of life, and a powerhouse of AI?<br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Research Theme:</span> Hybrid Intelligence systems - where humans and AI collaborate to achieve shared goals - must satisfy properties such as explainability, safety, efficient adaptability, and effective collaboration. Neuro-symbolic systems are a promising way to realise these properties, since humans use symbolic language (concepts in natural language, graphs) to communicate while machine learning systems use subsymbolic components to operate. The main research question of the project is therefore: How can neuro-symbolic systems be configured to support hybrid intelligence with guaranteed properties?<div><br></div><div><b>Position: </b>A fully funded four-year Ph.D. position is available at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on developing neuro-symbolic intelligent systems in the context of the <a href="https://www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl/">https://www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl/</a> as a collaboration between <a href="https://lr.cs.vu.nl/">Learning and Reasoning Group</a> at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the <a href="https://www.illc.uva.nl/">Institute for Logic, Language and Computation</a> at University of Amsterdam. <br><br><b>Offer:</b> We offer a full-time PhD position that falls under the <a href="https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/collective-labour-agreement-of-dutch-universities">Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities</a> (solid pension scheme, substantial holiday leave, paid sick leave, maternity/paternity leave) with a gross monthly salary between €2,901 and €3,707, 8% holiday pay and 8.3% year-end bonus, and a flexible benefits package.<br><br><b>Your profile:</b> Candidates are expected to have an <b>MSc degree</b> (by Sept ‘25) in one of <b>Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Mathematics</b>, or related fields. Interest in neuro-symbolic systems or background in formal foundations is a plus.<br><br><b>Supervisory team and network:</b> The PhD student will be supervised by Annette ten Teije (VU), Erman Acar (UvA) and Frank van Harmelen (VU). Moreover the student will be part of the large scientific network, the Hybrid Intelligence project that connects 8 Dutch universities.<br><br><b>Deadline:</b> <u>May 15th 2025</u><br><br>For <b>further details</b> and<b> official applications</b>: <a href="https://werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-position-on-neuro-symbolic-ai-in-hybrid-intelligence-amsterdam-1159516">https://werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-position-on-neuro-symbolic-ai-in-hybrid-intelligence-amsterdam-1159516</a><br><br><br></div><br><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">---<br>Erman Acar, PhD<br><br>Assistant Professor (Explainable AI in Finance)<br>CLC Lab, <i>Institute for Logic, Language and Computation </i><br>SIAS group, I<i>nformatics Institute, </i><br>University of Amsterdam</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>