"Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Associate"

We are pleased to offer a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Associate post under the supervision of Prof Maria Liakata, in the context of the RAi UK/UKRI funded Keystone project on Addressing socio-technical limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly for medical and social computing (https://adsolve.github.io/). The role involves developing methods for better evaluation of LLMs for real world scenarios, both reference-free and benchmark-based evaluation, augmenting LLMs with temporal reasoning and the ability to perform longitudinal predictions with multi-modal data, mitigation for hallucinations and biases. For details see the project website and in particular workstreams 2,3 and 5.

Candidates must have an Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or a related topic. Applicants at the PDRA level must have a PhD in NLP or machine learning. Substantial knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning methods is essential, as well as good understanding of work in LLM evaluation and fine tuning. Experience in working on reasoning and explainability of NLP and machine learning models is desirable.

Our researchers work with the arts and sciences collaborating with psychologists, biologists, musicians and actors, mathematicians, medical researchers, dentists and lawyers. As a multidisciplinary School, we are well known for our pioneering research and pride ourselves on our world-class projects. We are equal first in the UK for the impact of our Computer Science research, and second in the country for our Electronic Engineering research output (REF 2021).

Throughout our history, we have fostered social justice, improved lives through academic excellence, and we continuously embrace diversity of thought in everything we do. We believe that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements. The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full-time (35 hours per week) for PDRA, or full-time (35 hours) or part-time (20 hours) for RA, fixed term appointment until 31 March 2028 and is expected to start in Autumn 2025.