Two postdoctoral positions in Natural Language Understanding

Updated: over 2 years ago
Deadline: 15 Oct 2021

(ref. BAP-2021-621)

Laatst aangepast : 26/07/2021

We plan to hire two postdoctoral researchers on the topic of natural language understanding at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, Belgium. Potential topics of interest are the learning of representations of language in a perceptual context, continual learning, compositional generalization, learning by analogy, the role of imagination and anticipation in language understanding, and the role of memory in commonsense reasoning and in discourse understanding. The research is financed by the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS (Common-sense and Anticipation enriched Learning of Continuous representations sUpporting Language UnderStanding - Horizon 2020 - 788506 - https://calculus-project.eu). The postdoctoral researchers will perform their research at the Language Intelligence and Information Retrieval lab https://liir.cs.kuleuven.be,which is part of the Human-Computer Interaction section and member of the KU Leuven ELLIS Unit. The European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) promotes basic research in machine learning and modern AI, and involves the very best European academics (https://ellis.eu). KU Leuven ranks among the top 50 universities in THE World University Rankings 2021.


Responsibilities
  • Perform fundamental research in natural language understanding and machine learning.

  • Carry out some teaching duties, which may include lectures, the organization of student seminars, and the supervision of bachelor and master theses.

Profile
  • The successful candidate has (or are near completion of) a PhD in Computer Science (or a related field). 
  • He or she has excellent knowledge of the fundamental principles, algorithms and methods of machine learning and in particular of learning representations.
  • He or she has an outstanding track record of publications in relevant international peer-reviewed A ranked conferences and in journals with high impact factor in the fields of natural language processing and machine learning.

Offer
  • A postdoctoral position for 2 years finanved by the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS.
  • A competitive wage and yearly budget to attend conferences.
  • The opportunity for personal development beyond research including the supervision of master and PhD students and the possibility to contribute to teaching.
  • Access to our deep learning cluster which contains the latest GPU hardware such as multiple RTX 3090 graphics cards.

Interested?

For more information please contact Prof. dr. Marie-Francine Moens, tel.: +32 16 32 53 83, mail: [email protected].


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