Postdoc position — USI – Università della Svizzera italiana
CHF 49'500 - 75'000
USI – Università della Svizzera italiana · Lugano (TI)
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SalaryCHF 49'500 - 75'000
Role overview
Open position at Università della Svizzera italiana.
Department/Institute: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Role: Postdoc position.
- Open position at Università della Svizzera italiana.
- Department/Institute: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
- encompass both research and teaching responsibilities.
- The successful candidate will have shared responsibilities in the design and conduction of research projects in the field of NLP, present papers at scientific conferences and produce publications in high-ranking journals and top-tier conferences.
Main responsibilities
- encompass both research and teaching responsibilities.
- The successful candidate will have shared responsibilities in the design and conduction of research projects in the field of NLP, present papers at scientific conferences and produce publications in high-ranking journals and top-tier conferences.
- On the teaching side, he/she will work as teaching assistant in courses at master level, helping in the preparation of teaching materials and help with supervising PhD students.
- Candidates’ profile Ideal candidates should satisfy the following requirements:
- A PhD in natural language processing, computer science, or related disciplines.
- Experience with and/or strong interest in interdisciplinary work, and collaborative projects. Strong programming skills
- Excellent research track record and publications.
Application process
- The Institutes invite applications for a fully funded postdoc position in NLP, for two years, renewable for another 2 years.
- 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 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. pagina 2 / 3 The Postdoc Position The postdoc will work under the scientific supervision of Prof.
- Lonneke van der Plas (https://usi.to/bkks).
- The successful candidate will be offered the possibility to work in a fast-growing, cross-institutional, dynamic research team and have the opportunity to collaborate with members of Van der Plas’ NLP lab (https://usi-nlp.github.io/) that are based at USI and the EPFL, as well as the large international network the group features.
Contacts
- You will also need to upload the documents listed above. pagina 3 / 3 Requests for further information can be sent to Lonneke van der Plas ([email protected]) with ‘SATURNA-POSTDOC’ in the title.
Company and context
- Good communication skills, scientific curiosity, good organizational skills, rigor in experimental work and high level of motivation.
- Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.
- Good oral and written skills in one (or more) national Swiss languages (German, French, Italian, Romansh) is a plus.
- Interest in teaching and supervising students and availability to collaborate with colleagues (engage in scientific dialogue, listen and think critically) are required.
- General terms Workplace is USI Università della Svizzera italiana, located in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Availability to travel to other parts of Switzerland and abroad (for purposes of collaboration and research) is required.
- Starting date is 1 September 2026 (at the earliest).
- However, the position will be kept open until a suitable candidate has been found.
Additional details
- Tasks encompass both research and teaching responsibilities.
- Experience with and/or strong interest in interdisciplinary work, and collaborative projects. Strong programming skills
Notes and original content
- Experience with and/or strong interest in interdisciplinary work, and collaborative projects.
- Strong programming skills
