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Research Scientist (1-year contract), SCIS

$ 5,700 - $ 6,000 / month

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will be responsible for conducting research on a project about LLM-based Fact Checking funded by one of the major funding agencies in Singapore. Successful candidate will be part of an active research team led by PI/Co-PI in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University in collaboration with local and international research partners.

Candidate's core responsibilities are:

  • Conduct routine research and development for the project under the supervision of PI/Co-PI.
  • Implement data gathering methods, collect research data, and data pre-processing.
  • Design and implement core and baseline machine learning/reasoning methods/approaches.
  • Conduct experimental evaluation of the designed methods and algorithms.
  • Participate in drafting technical reports and research papers.
  • Attend regular grouping meeting and discussions.g) Administrate and maintain the hardware/software environment such as development platforms, software packages and toolkits.
  • Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • PhD degree in NLP, AI, ML, or closely related disciplines from a reputable institution of higher learning
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant research experience (including PhD study stage) in Natural Language Processing, LLMs, and/or Machine Learning
  • A record of publications at ACL / EMNLP / TACL / CL, AAAI / IJCAI, NeurIPS / ICLR / ICML, WWW / SIGIR / KDD / WSDM, or equivalent venues.
  • Excellent research, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong experience with LLMs, machine learning, and deep learning methods and toolkits
  • Strong experience in natural language understanding, reasoning, planning, and search algorithms.
  • Interests in LLM factuality and their applicability in attacking misinformation and hallucination
  • Fluent in programming in Python, Java, and C/C++
  • Highly self-motivated, being able to work independently and collaboratively with team members
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Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - Singapore Management University