The Faculty of Technology has the following job opening: 
Employment is conducive to academic qualification.
Group leader in Natural Language Processing (Postdoc)
ID: Wiss24460
- starting: as soon as possible
- Vollzeit
- salary according to Remuneration level 13 TV-L
- befristet
The "Semantic Databases" research group headed by Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano conducts research in the field of semantic technologies. The group researches methods of automatic language processing (NLP), in particular in the areas of information extraction, question answering, temporal and common sense reasoning. In addition, the group conducts research on topics of knowledge representation, especially ontologies, and develops new methods for entity linking, link prediction and ontology alignment.
The group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher who can independently set up and lead a group on Natural Language Processing. The group leader is expected to build up an independent research profile in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and to publish the research work at international conferences (e. g. ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI).
The research of the group leader should be compatible with the research topics of the Semantic Computing WG. Possible research topics include:
The group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher who can independently set up and lead a group on Natural Language Processing. The group leader is expected to build up an independent research profile in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and to publish the research work at international conferences (e. g. ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI).
The research of the group leader should be compatible with the research topics of the Semantic Computing WG. Possible research topics include:
- Robustness and security of large language models for NLP
- Ethical aspects and FAIRness in NLP procedures
- Fine-tuning and transfer learning for the adaptation of LLMs
- LLMs for information extraction
- Auto-ML for LLMs
- Argument Mining
- Common Sense Knowledge for NLP
- Temporal Reasoning for NLP
[Other thematic orientations are possible by arrangement.]
Your Tasks
- research tasks (75 %)
- research in the field of Natural Language Processing
- development of new methods and procedures in the field of NLP
- publication of research results
- presentation of results at international conferences
- acquisition of third-party funding
- participation in peer reviewing, conference organization, etc.
- teaching in the field of NLP (25 %) including supervision of doctoral candidates and students as well as supervision of theses (Bachelor and Master)
Employment is conducive to academic qualification.
We offer
- salary according to Remuneration level 13 TV-L
- befristet (3 years - extension by a further 3 years possible if necessary) (§ 2 (1) sentence 2 of the WissZeitVG; in accordance with the provisions of the WissZeitVG and the Agreement on Satisfactory Conditions of Employment, the length of contract may differ in individual cases)
- Vollzeit
- internal and external training opportunities
- variety of health, consulting and prevention services
- reconcilability of family and work
- flexible working hours
- job ticket for regional public transport network, good transport connection
- collegial working environment
- open and pleasant working atmosphere
- exciting, varied tasks
Your Profile
We expect
- completed scientific university degree
- excellent (at least magna cum laude) doctorate in the field computer science, computational linguistics, data science or a related field
- excellent publication record at international conferences (e. g. ACL, EMNLP, CoNLL, AAAI, COLING)
- international visibility and good networking in the community
- convincing research and teaching concept
- independent, autonomous and committed working style
- strong organizational and coordination skills
- cooperative and team-oriented working style
- gender and diversity competence
Preferred experience and skills
- experience in the acquisition of third-party funding
- experience in supervising students/doctoral candidates and in teaching
- experience in project management
Application Procedure
We are looking forward to receiving your application. To apply, please preferably use our online form via the application button below.
Interested candidates can apply with their complete application including a list of publications and a brief research and teaching concept.
application deadline: 25.10.2024
Contact
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Postal Address
Universität Bielefeld
Technische Fakultät / AG Semantische Datenbanken
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Postal Address
Universität Bielefeld
Technische Fakultät / AG Semantische Datenbanken
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
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