The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a non-state university under church leadership and officially recognized by the Free State of Bavaria. It is committed to strong research and excellent teaching and combines first-class study conditions with an international focus. Eight faculties offer a wide range of subjects for around 5,000 students. The University employs 900 people of different faiths and beliefs. Grounded in the Christian view of human life, the KU aims to create an academic and educational culture of responsibility. The research group Reliable Machine Learning at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is seeking highly motivated candidates for a part-time position (75%) at the next possible date as a PhD Student (m/f/d) with contract duration of 3 years (with possibility for extension). The place of work will be in Ingolstadt. The salary is prescribed by the framework of the collective agreement (TV-L), Level 13 (75%). The newly founded research group Reliable Machine Learning (headed by Prof. Felix Voigtlaender) is part of the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science (MIDS) at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. The research group is funded by the High-Tech Agenda of Bavaria, as part of the consortium Resource Aware Artificial Intelligence for Future Technologies of the KU, the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, the TU Munich, and the University of Bayreuth. Furthermore, the research group is also supported by the Emmy Noether project Stability and Solvability in Deep Learning, through which this position is funded. The research of the group focuses on mathematically analyzing machine learning algorithms with a particular focus on questions of stability, computability, and robustness of methods from Deep Learning. Your tasks
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