The University of Amsterdam invites applications for postdoctoral positions on the intersection of ML, NLP, and Computer Vision. The research is funded by NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) grant of Ivan Titov ( http://ivan-titov.org/). The postdocs and PhD students will be employed by the University of Amsterdam and will be members of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation https://www.illc.uva.nl/ and the Faculty of Science. The collaboration is envisaged with researchers at the University of Amsterdam (e.g., Efstratios Gavves, and Wilker Aziz), as well as at the University of Edinburgh (e.g., Edoardo Ponti, Hakan Bilen, Sidharth N., Pasquale Minervini and Kenny Smith).
The research will focus primarily on the following directions (or their intersections):
1) Modular and decentralized learning in multimodal settings
2) Learning from language in grounded settings: exploiting knowledge embedded in language and language models to help solve decision-making applications and produce generalizable and interpretable models for these tasks
3) Emergent communication and collaboration: developing agents, which learn to communicate with each other to solve problems, while maintaining transparency to humans and improving with human feedback.
*Application deadline: May 31, 2024*
https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/14960/Two-Post...
For informal enquiries please contact: Ivan Titov (titov@uva.nl)
Ivan is attending ICLR, so please feel free to connect with him for a discussion.