*** Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MBZUAI, UAE; additionally affiliated with the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt ***

We have an opening in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing in the Natural Language Processing Department at MBZUAI, UAE to work together with Iryna Gurevych. The successful candidate will also be affiliated with the UKP Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The initial contract will be for 2 years.

Ideal candidates have a PhD in computational linguistics, AI, Machine Learning or a related discipline and are fluent in English.

DUTIES

1. Developing your own research program, including publications in top CL/NLP venues.

2. Collaborative research between the NLP Department of MBZUAI and the UKP Lab in Darmstadt to help establish one of the most prominent CL/NLP bridges between Europe and MBZUAI in UAE. This is an opportunity for you to be part of the team that shapes the future of this collaboration.

3. Joint projects with other NLP and ML faculty members at MBZUAI.

MBZUAI AND UKP LAB ECOSYSTEMS

MBZUAI's NLP Department (Chair: Prof. Preslav Nakov) is quickly growing. It is supported by the government's investment in AI, which makes funds and infrastructure available to early-career researchers. The current MBZUAI NLP faculty is international and diverse and is engaged in cutting-edge projects with top partners worldwide.

UKP lab is part of ELLIS (ELLIS NLP and the ELLIS unit in Darmstadt, the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA), and the Hessian.AI (https://hessian.ai), a new center in which the faculty from the main Hessian universities collaborate on advancing machine learning, including NLP. ELLIS, ELIZA and Hessian.AI provide a rich environment for networking with other researchers in NLP and AI and for collaboration with other groups.

TEAM

This position is supervised by Iryna Gurevych, founder and director of the UKP Lab in Darmstadt and a recent recipient of the Milner 2024 Lecture Award recognizing one outstanding computer science researcher from Europe per year. UKP Lab is internationally recognized for its research on NLP including language representation learning, sentence transformers and conversational AI. We are a team of about 40 full-time researchers from a multitude of different nations.

WAGES AND BENEFITS

MBZUAI provides competitive salaries for postdoctoral fellows, sufficient academic freedom to engage in cutting-edge research and publish top-level papers in a research environment, and the infrastructural conditions required to start research immediately.

LOCATION

This position is in Abu-Dhabi, at MBZUAI, offering an unprecedented opportunity for gaining international experience. Due to a close collaboration with UKP Lab, the successful candidate will occasionally visit Darmstadt in Germany to advance joint projects.

APPLICATION

Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment

Application deadline: October 15th, 2024. After that, the position will remain open until filled. We will consider applications as soon as they are submitted.