Postdoctoral Research Associate

**Salary**

The starting salary will be from £33,882 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience.

**Contractual hours**

36.5

**Package**

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).

**Job category/type**

Research

**Date posted**

11/12/2024

**Job reference**

P99685

**Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy**

This new full time post is available from 6 January 2025 on a fixed term basis until 5 January 2028.

**The post**

The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the work of Prof. Aline Villavicencio. This funded post is available immediately. The successful applicant will investigate strategies for more efficient and transparent machine learning models to generate accurate cross-lingual multimodal representations lower resource and lower frequency language, as well as to contribute to the design and development of resources and evaluation protocols.

**About you**

Applicants will have:

- A PhD in Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing or related field or possess an equivalent qualification/experience
- be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research methos and techniques to work within established research programmes.
- A strong publication record commensurate with career stage;
- Expertise in machine learning (applied to NLP), with experience in the analysis and development of deep learning models;
- Experience in using libraries for NLP and deep learning;
- Experience in data annotation, data collection, and creating new benchmark datasets for evaluation;
- A willingness to further improve methods skills and to transfer knowledge to doctoral researchers and student assistants.

**Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.**

**What we can offer you**
- Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
- Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
- An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
- Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
- A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy
- A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon

**The University of Exeter**

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent

of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research - Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City

**Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment**

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With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

**Further information