PhD position: Conversational Agents in Healthcare

The Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University is looking for one PhD student to conduct research on conversational agents in healthcare under the supervision of Dr. Stefán Ólafsson. Conversational agents are increasingly becoming ubiquitous and being used in safety-critical domains. This project aims to investigate conversational agents for use in healthcare, research dialog management methods that take advantage of state-of-the-art NLP (e.g., large language models, AI planning, and reinforcement learning), and study aspects of their performance, such as safety, trustworthiness, and information credibility.

The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable about AI and language technologies and be passionate about research. The position is at the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) and the Language and Voice Lab (LVL) at Reykjavik University in Iceland. The position is for three years. The starting monthly salary is 412,000 ISK (approximately 2,760 €) per month before taxes. The successful candidate will spend 20% of their employment working as a teaching assistant in selected courses.

Please visit https://jobs.50skills.com/ru/17159/ for more information. The application deadline is January 31st, 2023.