Job Description

Research Fellow/Associate, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) is searching for a Research Fellow/Associate in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) under Professor Andy Khong. LKCMedicine, a partnership between Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Imperial College London (Imperial) is training doctors who put patients at the centre of their exemplary care. A prospective candidate needs to have a doctoral/master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in computer science/EEE specializing in NLP or Machine Learning (ML). We seek a highly motivated, meticulous, and well-organised candidate able to work independently and collaborate in a highly diverse, multi-cultural and interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities:

1. Research activities:

Data collection, data management, and statistical analyses of medical data

Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuning

Developing LLMs associated with medical data

Human and automatic evaluation of fine-tuned LLMs

2. Research publications:

Manuscript drafting and editing

3. Liaising with external collaborators, particularly on technical matters.

Qualifications/ Requirements:

Doctoral/Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in computer science/EEE specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Machine Learning (ML).

Skills in NLP, ML, LLM field

Experience in software development life cycle and programming languages

Experience in writing and publishing research papers in top-tier NLP/ML conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP)

Skills in managing technical aspects of the project

Highly motivated, meticulous, and well-organised,

Good leadership skills and a team player

Able to work independently and collaborate in a highly diverse, multi-cultural and interdisciplinary team

Adaptable and willing to enter into deep learning in new areas

Fluent in written and spoken English with good communication skills

Hiring Institution: LKC

Nanyang Technological University