Postdoc Position in Milan Bicocca on Machine Learning for social media analysis and adaptive user support (deadline mid Feb -TBD)
Francesco Lomonaco
Dear colleagues,
University Milano-Bicocca is offering 1 postdoctoral position on machine learning and AI applied to understand and contrast social media threats for teenagers.
The successful participant will be involved in the multidisciplinary project COURAGE funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
The position is research only starting in April 2022
Application Opens: T.B.D. (soon)
Application Closes: T.B.D. (about mid-February)
Starts: April - May 2022
Duration: 1.5 years
Salary: € 3100 pm after tax
Please contact us for expression of interest and preliminary information:
Topics: Social media, NLP, machine learning, cognitive models, opinion dynamics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, graph neural network, recommender systems, network analysis
Project: COURAGE https://www.upf.edu/web/courage
Informal description of the job:
Do social media harm teenagers and our society?
Can we make them safer?
Let's understand how to reshape social media algorithms together with this competitive research positions in #machinelearnig, #artificialintelliegence and #socialmedia modelling based in Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca on the project COURAGE #couragecompanion
#AIforSocialGood We will use the state of the art in graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, nlp, cv, and machine learning in general to improve our understanding of social media dynamics, and help our society by supporting and teaching young people tackle hate speech and fake news in social media.
Many opportunities for interdisciplinary and international research.