Are you curious about how people navigate uncertainty in healthcare, and how AI is changing the way decisions are made? Do you have a background in the social sciences or humanities? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a postdoctoral position at Uppsala University.
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At the Division of Systems and Control, we develop both theory and concrete tools to design systems that learn, reason, and act in the real world based on a seamless combination of data, mathematical models, and algorithms. Our research integrates expertise from machine learning, optimization, control theory, and applied mathematics, spanning diverse application domains such as medicine, energy systems, biomedical systems, neuroscience, and safety and security. The Division of Systems and Control enjoys a wide network of strong international collaborators.
Project description
Every healthcare decision involves uncertainty. AI systems express uncertainty in probabilistic terms, while clinicians, patients and epidemiologists deal with it through judgement, experience and institutional context. What happens when these ways of knowing meet? This joint WASP/WASP-HS project, run by researchers at Uppsala University (Sara Hamis) and Linköping University (Nicolette Lakemond & Gunnar Holmberg), treats uncertainty as a statistical as well as a social phenomenon. It studies how stakeholders interpret uncertainty in human- and AI-generated assessments, and how this shapes their decisions. The project combines surveys, interviews and phenomenological methods to explore how uncertainty is handled in healthcare today, and how AI is changing this. The postdoc will be based in Uppsala.