Research Scientist, SCIS

• Contract
• Manager
• Doctorate or equivalent
• Singapore | Closing On 04 Feb 2023

1-year contract

About Us

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.

Job Description

• Review and distill state-of-the-art methods in literature;
• Conduct original research to develop new algorithms and/or improve existing ones;
• Implement the research prototypes and baseline methods;
• Perform experiments to validate the proposed algorithms;
• Documentation of the research and results including academic publication.

Qualifications

• Minimum PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines from an institution of higher learning
• Minimum 1 years of relevant research experience in data mining or machine learning
• Good research publication records in top conferences/journals, especially in machine learning/AI/data mining areas
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python is required
• Proficiency in deep learning stack such as Pytorch or tensorflow is required
• Excellent working knowledge of machine learning and deep learning including graph neural networks 
• Good analytical, technical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively with team members