Job Title: PhD Student Researcher in Natural Language Processing
Institution: Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Location: Heilbronn, Germany
Salary: TVL E-13
Contract: 100%, three years
Start Date: September 1st, 2024
Responsibilities:
Conduct research in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Develop and apply new NLP techniques to solve real-world problems
Publish high-quality research papers in top-tier journals and conferences
Supervise Bachelors and Masters students
Assist teaching Bachelors and Masters courses in Machine Learning and/or Natural Language Processing
Qualifications:
Masters in NLP, Computer Science or a related field
Projects in NLP or machine learning
Excellent programming skills in Python and other relevant programming languages
Strong communication and presentation skills in English (German is not necessary, but would be a plus; other languages are also of strong interest)
Benefits:
Competitive salary and benefits package
Opportunity to work with leading researchers in the field of NLP
Access to state-of-the-art research facilities
Opportunity to publish your research in top-tier journals and conferences
About the School:
The School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the leading research institutions in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
The new Fraser NLP lab at TUM is seeking a highly motivated and talented phd student / researcher to join our team. We are located at the new multi-university campus (the Bildungscampus, where the ETH Zurich center will also be located in the future) in Heilbronn, near Stuttgart.
The research interests of the lab include all areas of NLP, with a particular focus on multilingual language models and machine translation.
For the PhD student position, two possible research foci are: machine translation of metaphors and machine translation of low-resource languages.
To Apply:
Please submit a brief application letter, your CV, a research statement, contact information for two references, and a list of publications in a single PDF named phd_lastname_firstname.pdf (e.g., phd_fraser_alexander.pdf).
Please send the PDF (or any questions) to Wen Lai at:
lavine@cis.lmu.de
Deadline:
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.
-- Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser Chair for Data Analytics & Statistics Technical University of Munich School of Computation, Information and Technology Heilbronn Campus