Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence Apply Locations: St Lucia CampusTime Type: Full TimePosted on: Posted 3 Days AgoJob Requisition ID: R-39640 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Full-time (100%), fixed-term position for up to 3 years Base salary will be in the range $78,871.35 - $105,004.02 + 17% Superannuation (Academic Level A) Base salary will be in the range $110,365.29 - $130,765.78 + 17% Superannuation (Academic Level B) Based at our St Lucia Campus About This Opportunity We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Academic level A) or Research Fellow (Academic level B) to join our AI in Healthcare team within the Health research program (HERA). In this position, you will develop your expertise and an emerging research profile in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Large Language Models, with particular applications in the health domain. Key responsibilities will include: Research: Produce quality research consistent with discipline norms by publishing or exhibiting in high quality outlets, e.g., ACM SIGIR, WSDM, WebConf, EMNLP, ACL, AMIA. Establish a research program, collaborate on research projects, seek and manage research funding, publish in reputable journals, utilize best practice research methodologies, and participate in project discussions. Supervision and Researcher Development: Supervise students, recruit and manage employees, provide performance feedback and training, resolve conflicts, and ensure correct remuneration and benefits. Citizenship and Service: Develop partnerships, demonstrate leadership through mentoring, engage in internal service roles and committees, perform administrative functions, provide support to colleagues, and uphold university values. This is a research-focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance. About You Completion (level A and B) or near completion (level A) of a PhD in the field of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, or Machine Learning on Textual Data. Demonstrated expert knowledge and experience in relevant empirical research methods, including Information Retrieval, Large Language Models, question answering, answer generation and ranking, abstractive summarization, interactive Information Retrieval, intent understanding, user-based evaluation. Demonstrated publication record in quality research outlets in relevant fields. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Software engineering expertise, including implementation of Large Language Models methods, Information Retrieval methods, Machine Learning algorithms, and wrangling large-scale datasets. The ability to work both independently in a research environment and as part of a research team. High level organizational skills, with demonstrated capacity to establish and achieve goals. Additional for Level B: Evidence of identification of research problems, opportunities and solutions that are creative and non-standard. Experience in supervising research students. Ability to build smooth liaisons and professional contact with academic and industrial collaborators. The ability to work part of a high-achieving, cross-disciplinary research team. The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including: right to work in Australia, education check. Want to Apply? All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered: Resume Cover letter Responses to the ‘About You’ section Other Information UQ is committed to a fair, equitable and inclusive selection process. Applications close Wednesday 5 March 2025 at 11.00pm AEST (R-39640). #J-18808-Ljbffr