Job Description

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS

Cognitive Computing Lab
Research Center of Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science
Jeonbuk National University

Cognitive Computer Lab, Department of Computer Science, Jeonbuk National University, is inviting qualified researchers to apply for a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Project of Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources.

An appointed researcher is expected to work with faculty members at Cognitive Computer Lab, pursuing to publish at top NLP (natural language processing) and AI (artificial intelligence) conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, NACCL, AAAI, IJACI, and ICLR, or publish at major NLP/AI journals. For more detailed description of research members and our areas of research, please visit our web sites at https://nlp.jbnu.ac.kr/. The recently ongoing research topics at Cognitive Computing Lab include the following:
- Knowledge enhanced pretrained language models
- Memory-augmented language models
- Knowledge & lexicon enhanced pretrained language models
- Multimodal foundation models
- Few-shot/Zero-shot learning, Finetuning, Prompting for pretrained language models
- Analytics on pretrained language models
- Open-domain multi-hop question answering
- Grammar induction
- Morphological analysis and dependency parsing
- Neuro symbolic models for NLP
- Entity linking & relation extraction
- Lexical semantics
- Dense retrieval
- Core NLP (Word segmentation, parsing)
- Graph-based approaches for general NLPs

Annual base salary will be 36,000,000 Won or higher, commensurate to the applicant’s experience and qualifications. In addition to the base salary, the faculty at Cognitive Computer Lab may additionally support 6,000,000 Won annually. Appointments are initially for one year, but extendible to additional two-three years.

Applicants should send their CV, publication list and statements of research interests and plans to the (e-mail) address below. Application deadline is November 29, 2022.

Contact:
Seung-Hoon Na
Head of Cognitive Computing Lab

Head of Artificial Intelligence Research Center

Dept. of Computer Science, Jeonbuk National University
Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, 54896 Republic of Korea
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +82-63-270-2282