Posizioni di dottorandi — USI – Università della Svizzera italiana
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Position Overview
Posizione aperta presso Università della Svizzera italiana.
Department/Institute: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Role: PhD student positions Location: Lugano, Svizzera (Canton Ticino) About USI and the Institutes
- Position Overview
- Posizione aperta presso Università della Svizzera italiana.
Application process
- The institutes invite applications for two fully funded Ph.D. positions in natural language processing and machine learning for conducting research in the project entitled SATURNA.
- The project SATURNA (https://www.saturna.ch/) is a large-scale four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
- It is an inter-disciplinary collaboration between the University of Bern, EPFL, Idiap Research Institute and the National University of Singapore, with specialists in NLP, graph deep learning, knowledge-enhanced AI, computational biology and translational science.
- The role of the team of Prof.
- Lonneke van der Plas (https://usi.to/bkks) is to draw parallels between text sequences and RNA sequences, thereby leveraging advances made in the NLP field to learn informative representations of RNA sequences.
- Vice versa, handling the intricacies of RNA, such as extremely long-distance dependencies, context-dependency, structure, function etc. sheds new light on assumptions made in NLP models, that will be tested for their applicability on language.
- The Ph.D. Positions
- The doctoral students will be enrolled in the PhD programme of the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society or in the PhD programme of the Faculty of Informatics, depending on suitability of the candidates' profile and faculty organisation.
Additional details
- Department/Institute: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Role: PhD student positions Location: Lugano, Svizzera (Canton Ticino) About USI and the Institutes
- The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) conducts research activities in a spectrum of disciplines related to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from deep neural networks to explainable causal networks, from machine vision to autonomous robotics, intersecting control engineering and operations research with AI/ML methods. About the SATURNA Project
- The PhD candidates are also asked to present papers at scientific conferences, and produce publications for scientific journals. Candidates' Profile
- Full understanding of the foundations of transformer-based language models Strong programming skills High interest in cross-disciplinary work
- Interest for teaching and tutoring students and availability to collaborate with colleagues (engage in scientific dialogue, listen and think critically) are required.
- The successful candidates will work as research assistants at the Institute IALS and IDSIA, and will have the possibility to interact with an international network of collaborators. Workplace & Starting Date
- Availability to travel to other parts of Switzerland and abroad (for purposes of collaboration and research) is required.
Notes and original content
- Department/Institute: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Role: PhD student positions
- Location: Lugano, Svizzera (Canton Ticino)
- About USI and the Institutes
- The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) conducts research activities in a spectrum of disciplines related to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from deep neural networks to explainable causal networks, from machine vision to autonomous robotics, intersecting control engineering and operations research with AI/ML methods.
- About the SATURNA Project
- The PhD candidates are also asked to present papers at scientific conferences, and produce publications for scientific journals.
- Candidates' Profile
- Full understanding of the foundations of transformer-based language models
- Strong programming skills
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