PhD vacatures

You will conduct cutting-edge research on topics including, but not limited to:

Continual learning, with a focus on novel optimization techniques and memory architectures.
Advancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
Developing methods to improve the safety and robustness of LLMs.
Enabling effective collaboration between intelligent agents.
The research is funded by NWO (Dutch Science Foundation). The researchers will be employed by the University of Amsterdam and will be a member of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation and the Faculty of Science. The collaboration is envisaged with researchers across the University of Amsterdam as well as with the University of Edinburgh.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

Carry out research as described in the project proposal;

Present and publish at key international conferences and in leading journals;

Contribute your expertise to joint research projects within the research groups;

Participate in and contribute to the organization of research activities and events at the ILLC, such as workshops and colloquia;

Make a small contribution to the ILLC’s educational mission, by possibly taking part in teaching and student supervision activities in areas related to your expertise.

University of Amsterdam

A PhD degree (or equivalent qualification) in AI (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing or computer vision);

A strong scientific track record, documented by publications at first-tier conferences and journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL or COLM);

Have excellent programming skills;

Have strong mathematical skills (e.g., probability theory, statistics, calculus, and linear algebra);

Have strong communication, presentation and writing skills;

Enjoy working in a multidisciplinary research environment;

Are highly motivated and creative;

Have an excellent command of English.

Ph. D.

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