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’s 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’s 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
