Fully funded PhD / RA / Postdoc Positions in Trustworthy Medical AI & Human-AI Collaboration at SMU

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Dear All,

 

We are recruiting motivated PhD applicants, research assistants/engineers (RAs/REs) and postdoc candidates to join the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University.

 

Our group works on trustworthy multimodal AI (images/videos + text) for healthcare and human–AI collaboration in real clinical workflows. Current projects involve close collaboration with clinician partners from SingHealth, Singapore General Hospital, and Duke University / Duke-NUS, with opportunities to work on real clinical data and practically relevant research problems.

 

Example project areas include:

• Multimodal image and video understanding
• Vision–language models & multimodal learning for healthcare
• Uncertainty, robustness, and reliability in medical AI
• Clinical documentation intelligence (report generation, Medical VQA)
• Domain Adaptation
• Human-AI collaboration and evaluation in real workflows

 

Position details:

• PhD students: scholarship to cover the tuition fees and a monthly stipend.
• RA/RE applicants: competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Postdoc applicants: competitive salary commensurate with experience. Strong candidates should have a solid first-author publication record and the ability to lead independent research directions.

 

How to Apply:

Please email the following application package to mh...@smu.edu.sg with the title header of [App-PhD] / [App-RA] or [App-Postdoc] Full Name to discuss research opportunities.

 

• A CV that lists all publications and refereed submissions
• A brief description of your match to the role, research interests, and project ideas
• A copy of the transcripts
• (optional) 1 – 2 writing samples: conference or journal article that you are most proud of and that best demonstrates your expertise if available

 

For PhD applicants, please also submit the official SMU PhD application by the university deadline (30 June 2026). Early submission is encouraged. The guidelines for PhD programs and applications can be found in https://scis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/PhD/online-application.

 

RA & PostDoc Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.

 

More Information:

See our previous research at minl22.github.io

SMU is the third national university in Singapore and the computer science of SMU ranks 19th in Asia and 90th worldwide (CS Ranking 2026).