Research Fellow / Research Associate (Natural Language Processing)

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is one of the founding Schools of the Nanyang Technological University. Built on a culture of excellence, the School is renowned for its high academic standards and research. With over 3,000 undergraduates students and 1,000 graduate students it is one of the largest EEE schools in the world and ranks 4th in the field of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subjects. Today, the School has become one of the world’s largest engineering schools that nurtures competent engineers and researchers. Each year, the School graduates over a thousand students who are ready to take on great ambitions and challenges. For more details, please view: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee

We are hiring a Research Associate/Research Fellow in EEE to contribute towards NLP-based research and associated deep learning applications. The Research Fellow/Research Associate is also expected to support teaching activities as required by the school.

Key Responsibilities:

• Propose novel ideas in response to latest research trends in the field of NLP

• Publish top-tier journal and conference papers on NLP and related applications

• Assist in mentoring of MSc dissertation students and undergraduate research students in their projects

• Prepare report and conduct presentation at seminars.

• Assist the school in various teaching activities, including instructing or supervision of labs and tutorials.

• Prior teaching experience is preferred for candidates. It would be good if the candidate can also explore areas such as multimodal algorithms/techniques involving speech/audio, images, and video along with text-based applications.

Job Requirements:

• MSc (Research Associate) or PhD (Research Fellow) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, or other related fields.

• Solid Mathematical skills.

• Experience in implementing algorithms for machine learning and natural language processing-related applications (It would be good if the candidate can also explore areas such as multimodal algorithms/techniques involving speech/audio, images, and video along with text-based applications.

• Good written and oral communication skills.

• Meticulous and good with data.

• Self-motivated and takes initiative.

• Independent and can work well with a team.

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.