Research Associate

4 days ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

Fixed term contract - 24 months.

Full time - 35 hours per week.

The opportunity:

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a Research Associate position in natural language processing and machine learning. The research project is in the area multimodal natural language understanding and generation.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), fixed term for 24 months, regular on-campus working.

The postdoctoral researcher will be supervised by  Mirella Lapata and funded by  UKRI (the UK Research and Innovation National funding agency) and will join the Edinburgh NLP group (edinburghnlp.inf.ed.ac.uk), one of the largest and most active NLP research groups in the world (see csrankings.org/#/index?nlp&world). There are many collaborative opportunities, both within the NLP group as well as across the School of Informatics (which includes faculty working on machine learning, computer vision, speech processing, and social computing).

Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Ph.D. degree (or near completion) (Desirable).
    A strong background in AI, machine learning and/or natural language processing
  • Publications at top venues in NLP or/and ML
  • Strong programming skills
  • Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and multimodal frameworks (Desirable).
  • Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills, and excellent command of English


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