"Research Associate-Fixed Term"

Position Summary

The Biometrics Research lab (BRL) has a rich history of conducting leading research in face and fingerprint research over the past 35 years. Students and postdocs in BRL have published seminal research papers which are widely cited. With the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Image Generation (AIG), it is imperative that we fuse the domain-specific models created for say, face recognition with commercially available pre-trained AGIs, also referred to as Vision-Language Models such as ChatGPT. An intelligent fusion of these two approaches is likely to result in improved recognition performance, a confidence score in recognition decision, and an explanation for success and failure cases. The selected candidate will work on this fusion problem and evaluate its success and pitfalls on a variety of datasets. The candidate will also be expected to write papers for to-flight conferences and journals.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Doctorate - Computer Science or related field

Minimum Requirements

PhD in computer Science or related field with in-depth experience in biometric recognition and Vision-Language foundation Models

Desired Qualifications

Ability to develop state-of-the-art face and fingerprint recognition models and fuse them with LLMS (e.g. ChatGPT) to boost recognition performance and provide explainability. Capability to work and think independently and strong skills in software development and GUI

Required Application Materials

CV and cover letter

Review of Applications Begins On

08/12/2025

Website

cse.msu.edu

Department Statement

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has robust research programs in several areas, including AI, Autonomous Driving, Biometrics, Computer Vision, security & privacy, Data Science, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Networking, and Software Engineering. The Department is home to 55 tenure-system faculty members and teaching specialists, including four endowed professors, 13 NSF CAREER awardees, and one member of the National Academy of Engineering. Our annual research expenditures exceed $11 million. The Department offers accredited B.S. degree programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and a B.S. degree in Computational Data Science. In addition to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, the Department offers an M.S. degree in Data Science in collaboration with the Department of Statistics and the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering. For additional information about the CSE Department please visit https://cse.msu.edu/.

MSU Statement

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.