Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing
Institution: Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Location: Heilbronn, Germany
Salary: TVL E-13 (possible option: E-14)
Contract: 100%, two years, renewal is possible
Start Date: September 1st, 2024
Responsibilities:
Conduct independent 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 PhD students
Teach Bachelors and Masters courses in Machine Learning and/or Natural Language Processing
Qualifications:
PhD in NLP or a related field
Strong publication record in top-tier NLP conferences and journals
Expertise in one or more NLP techniques, such as machine translation, natural language understanding, or natural language generation
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)
Not required, but a big plus: teaching experience, supervising experience
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
Opportunity to teach and mentor students
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 postdoctoral 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.
The postdoc position will involve work on low-resource languages in both machine translation and multilingual language models.
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 postdoc_lastname_firstname.pdf (e.g., postdoc_fraser_alexander.pdf).
Please send the PDF (or any questions) to Dr. Lukas Edman at:
lukas@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