The Data Mining and Machine Learning research group at the University of Vienna is seeking graduates or advanced MSc students in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, or related fields who are interested in pursuing a PhD in Explainability for Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate will join the group as a pre-doctoral researcher. The position is funded for three years and will be supervised by Prof. Benjamin Roth.

Application deadline: 24 June 2025

Research topics may include:

Personalized explanations of large language models Explanations for complex AI agents Training data-based explanations Usability aspects of explanations Evaluation methods for explainable AI

More information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1212525201/

-- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth@univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/