[PhD/postdoc/intern recruitment] NUS CogAI4Sci team

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Jun 2, 2025, 1:10:02 AM6/2/25

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The CogAI4Sci team at the National University of Singapore is currently recruiting fully funded PhD students/postdocs for Jan/Aug 2026 intake and interns/visiting scholars starting in late 2025.

Our research focuses on developing machine learning methods that enable AI systems to autonomously interact with the world and learn generalizable rules from experience in an efficient and creative manner to achieve automatic self-evolution. Our team work on 3 types of Automatic AI Engines, which we refer to as 3 "As":

-Automatic AI Evolution Engine: Make AI that improves AI

-Automatic AI Creativity Engine: Improve creativity of generative machine learning models

- Automatic AI Discovery Engine for Biomedical Sciences: Use self-evolving AI with improved creativity to help make new discoveries in biomedical sciences

Before starting CogAI4Sci team, Dianbo Liu was a group leader at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to the Broad Institute, Dianbo worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Yoshua Bengio (a Turing Award winner) and led the Humanitarian AI team at the Mila-Quebec AI Institute. This followed his fellowship training and studies in medical informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dianbo earned his PhD from the University of Dundee, Scotland, under the supervision of particle physicist Prof. Timothea Newman. During his doctoral studies, he received the Vest Principal Scholarship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a special graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dianbo also co-founded two start-ups, "GeneTank" and "SecureAILabs," to advance AI applications in sciences during his training.

Our research style: curiosity and impact driven. Members in the team are self-motivated and like to think big. We are extremely open to different ideas. Members in the team have a high degree of freedom to explore their ideas. At the same time, we have very strict control of research quality.

Who we are looking for: Self-motivated candidates with a genuine interest in the scientific questions we are exploring and a passion to change the world.