Job Alert: Student Research Assistant in Natural Lanugage Processing (NLP) (m/f/x)

About us:

We are the Social Data Science and AI (SODA) Lab at the Department of Statistics of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. We work on the social aspects and implications of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

Conducting research in NLP and computational social science.
Data collection, processing and analysis.
Model training and evaluation. Deployment with both open- and close-source (large) language models.
Assisting with academic writing for publications in NLP conferences

Your qualifications:

Enrollment at a German university with study major in computational linguistics, computer science, statistics, or a related discipline.
Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Proficiency in python and experience with Hugging Face libraries.
Proficiency in bash and experience with slurm.
Previous experience in NLP research is a plus.

Benefits:

Joining our team, you will be working on exciting research projects dealing with the social implications of language technologies. This role offers opportunities to build both technical expertise and content knowledge, with the possibility of submitting your research to NLP conferences. Remote work is possible.
Applications from suitably qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged.
People with disabilities who are equally as qualified as other applicants will receive preferential treatment.

Contact:

Interested applicants should submit their applications by e-mail to Bolei Ma (bolei.ma@lmu.de) with the subject "Application: Hiwi SODA NLP". Applications shall be compiled into one PDF document and include a recent CV and transcripts of records. Questions might be addressed via the above-indicated e-mail address.

Job Alert: Student Research Assistant in Natural Lanugage Processing (NLP) (m/f/x)