We (Sarath Chandar and Amal Zouaq) are seeking multiple postdoctoral researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to work on large language models. The postdocs will be largely involved in various projects in LLMs, including but not limited to the following topics:
Multi-agent / modular LLMs
LLM safety and Alignment
Bias and Fairness
Efficient Training Methods
Non-parametric memories
Constrained generation
LLMs and foundation models for biology and medical data
This position will be at Mila, the world-renowned AI hub located in Montreal, Canada – home to over 1000 researchers pushing the boundaries of AI research.
The ideal candidate for these positions
Should have completed (or will soon complete) a PhD with experience in NLP and Machine Learning.
Should have a track record of publishing at top international venues like ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.
Should be interested in mentoring masters and PhDs on several research projects.
Should have a demonstrated ability to initiate new research projects and have a desire to lead a research team.
For one of the positions, knowledge of Semantic Web techniques, knowledge bases and knowledge base embedding methods would be a plus.
These positions are for one year and are renewable.