Location: | Guildford |
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Salary: | £36,024 to £40,521 per annum and dependent on level of appointment |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 8th July 2024 |
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Closes: | 22nd July 2024 |
Job Ref: | 031024 |
The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research.
We have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourselves into one of the best universities in the world, which we are achieving through the talents and endeavour of every employee.
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The role
Applications are invited for a 12-month Research Fellow in natural language processing (NLP) and text-layout large language models (LLMs), to work full-time on an ESRC-funded project “MetaCurate-ML: Extraction and Utilisation of Metadata from Non-machine-actionable Documents to Improve Data Curation and Discovery”. We are looking for the successful post holder to start as soon as possible and will be based in the Department of Computer Science and its highly regarded Nature-inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) research group, reporting to the project PI (Dr. Suparna De).
The researcher will work on AI model training and inference, graph networks, and open standards/metadata. They will work within an ESRC project (‘MetaCurate-ML’) that aims to develop machine learning (ML) pipelines for processing of longitudinal pdf surveys into enhanced metadata following established metadata standards that support the FAIR principles. This is an excellent opportunity for a Research Fellow to further develop their research and software skills in an ambitious multi-disciplinary collaboration with social scientists, metadata curators and data management specialists from CLOSER, University College London (UCL), the UK Data Service (UKDS) and Scotcen.
The post-holder will be responsible for:
About you
For informal inquiries about the position, please contact Dr. Suparna De (s.de@surrey.ac.uk).
To apply
Please attached you CV and complete the questions on the application form evidencing your suitability for the role.
Interview Dates
Interviews will be held remotely over MS Teams on the 29th or 31st July 2024.
Further details:
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