BSC Degree in Engineering and Management Information Systems BI/24_005_HfPT_EPMQ

20 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Centro de Computação Grafica

Research Field

Engineering » Systems engineering

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

18 Apr 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Other

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

European Union / Next Generation EU

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

A position is now open for the attribution of 1 Research Grant (BI) for the HfPT - Health from Portugal (projeto nº 41), financed  by the European Union NextGeneration through the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM) and the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), on the following conditions:

Work Plan and Objectives to Reach– The work to be developed will consist of research and development of mechanisms that, through clinical data structure and its interpretation in time, will support the specialist clinician with relevant information, using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, in particular:

• Survey of necessary and not adapted requirements of the solution that will integrate the analytical and predictive modules;
• Design and implement various language models (LLMs) such as immediate engineering, chain of thought, agents, summary, etc;
• Contribute to the evolution of your models to improve language understanding and performance;
• Use NLP approaches to tackle complex linguistic tasks and challenges.
• Work collaboratively to design, develop, and implement solutions to language-related problems;

Scholarship Duration: The scholarship will last for 12 months, starting in April 2024, the scholarship contract may be renewed until the end of the affected project.

Application Formalization: candidates must submit their applications through a cover letter stating their reasons to apply, accompanied by a detailed Curriculum Vitae, a copy of the qualifications certificate, tabling curricular units (subjects) and respective grades, proof of course attendance and a copy of the identification document. All the documents must be sent in pdf.

Application Term and Submission conditions: the applications must be sent by email to [email protected] , during the admission period, which ranges from 05th to 18th of April, 2024. The reference BI/24_005_HfPT_EPMQ must be indicated somewhere in the email body or subject.

Requirements

Research Field

Engineering » Systems engineering

Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Scientific Area: Engineering and Management Information Systems

Admittance requirements: Candidates must hold, at the time of application, a degree in Information Systems Engineering or related areas. At the date of hiring, candidates must prove enrollment in one of the following courses:

• Master's Degree/Integrated Master's Degree (in an area related to the one requested in the announcement);
• Masters enrolled in courses that do not confer a degree, integrated into the educational project of a higher education institution, (e.g. postgraduate courses, advanced studies, specialized training in an area related to that requested in the announcement).

Additional Information
Benefits

Scholarship Duration: The scholarship will last for 12 months, starting in April 2024, the scholarship contract may be renewed until the end of the affected project.

Amount of the Monthly maintenance subvention: The amount of the scholarship will be €990,98, according to the table of values of the scholarships awarded directly by the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, research and technology (FCT) – online available at https://www.fct.pt/fct-atualizou-o-valor-das-bolsas-de-investigacao-3/

Eligibility criteria

Applicable Legislation: The grant award is based on the Scientific Research Scholarship Statute, approved by Law No. 40/2004 of 18th August and the Research Grant Regulation in force of the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, which is the one adopted by the Centre of Computer and Graphics.

Application Term and Submission conditions: the applications must be sent by email to [email protected] , during the admission period, which ranges from 05th to 18th of April, 2024. The reference BI/24_005_HfPT_EPMQ must be indicated somewhere in the email body or subject.

Selection process

Application Formalization: candidates must submit their applications through a cover letter stating their reasons to apply, accompanied by a detailed Curriculum Vitae, a copy of the qualifications certificate, tabling curricular units (subjects) and respective grades, proof of course attendance and a copy of the identification document. All the documents must be sent in pdf.

Selection methods: The evaluation will take into account the candidate's merit, considering academic course, curricular profile and experience in scientific research, mainly in the scientific fields of specialization related with the requirements defined in this fellowship's position offer.

Candidate selection will be divided into two stages. While a former stage involving curricular evaluation (60% of the total value) will aim a preliminary screening, a latter one will consist of an interview (40% of the total value), with the goal of producing an ordered list of candidates, in which the selected person occupies the first position, according to the selection criteria previously specified. The jury reserves the right to cancel the call if none of the candidates meets the required qualifications.

Selection jury:

President: Full Professor Paulo Cortez

Effective members: Paula Monteiro e Rui Ribeiro

Alternate members: André Pilastri e Pedro Pereira

Publication/Notification of Results: the final results of the evaluation will be available through a sorted list posted in the front desk of the Centre of Computer Graphics, and the selected candidate will be notified by email.

Deadline and Complaint Procedure: in case of an unfavorable result, candidates have a period of 10 working days to complain, in accordance with article 12 of the FCT Research Grants Regulation, I. P., no. 950/2019, of December 16, 2019.

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

CCG-Centro de Computação Gráfica

Country

Portugal

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

Guimarães

Website

http://www.ccg.pt/

Street

Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães - Portugal

Postal Code

4800-058

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED