Research Technician

University of North Carolina, United States

Updated: almost 2 years ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA
Job Type: PartTime
Deadline: 30 Jun 2022

Posting Information
Posting Information


Department Computer Science - 318400
Career Area Information Technology
Posting Open Date 06/27/2022
Application Deadline 06/30/2022
Position Type Temporary Staff (SHRA)
Position Title Research Technician
Position Number 20033975
Vacancy ID S019984
Full-time/Part-time Part-Time Temporary
Hours per week 20
Work Schedule
M-TH 9:00am-2PM
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range $15.00-$20.00
Proposed Start Date 07/05/2022
Estimated Duration of Appointment 6 months not to exceed 11 months

Position Information


Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The Department of Computer Science is one of 16 science departments and curricula in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is a major teaching department with more than 30 tenured/tenure track faculty, nine research faculty, and 28 adjunct faculty, who serve more than a thousand undergraduate students and hundreds of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Teaching and research activities are currently assisted by nearly 200 graduate students.
Our driving research ideal is collaboration as it has been since the founding of our department in 1964. We believe that computer science’s greatest purpose is in working with other scientists to solve problems in their own disciplines. Therefore, we actively seek opportunities to generate new research with our colleagues and with scientists in other departments across campus, including in science, medicine, and the humanities. Numerous computer science faculty members have adjunct or joint appointments in other departments, lead large interdisciplinary research groups, and collaborate with colleagues from multiple universities across the Research Triangle, the United States, and even the world.
Position Summary
The research assistant will continue working on an existing project and focus on more advance NLP model development, including the following tasks: – Develop machine learning and natural language processing models and conduct experiments to improve existing performance. – Conduct data annotation to add labels to some existing data – Design and develop appropriate applications for previous project and integrate new models on the applications.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Motivated and passionate about solving problems and doing research. – Have reasonably solid skills in coding and are preferably also comfortable reading some basic research papers and clearly formulating mathematical ideas. – Preferably already interested in computation linguistics and machine learning and natural language processing (and/or its multimodal connections to vision and robotics). – Prefer some form of prior research experience
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
NA
Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

Not Applicable.
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