Fully funded (Visiting) PhD positions & Research Assistants in Machine Learning for Health & Human-Centered AI at Singapore Management University
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Dear All,
We are seeking highly creative and motivated prospective (Visiting) PhD students or research assistants (RAs) to join the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. We develop trustworthy multimodal AI (images/videos + text) for healthcare and study human–AI collaboration to make AI systems usable, reliable, and responsible in real workflows.
Accepted students / RAs will pursue research in the following topics (but not limited to):
1) Machine Learning for Health:
- Multimodal representation learning (videos/images + texts, etc.)
- Vision–language models & large language models for clinical reasoning and decision support
- Medical video understanding and temporal modeling
- Robustness, reliability, and uncertainty
- Clinical documentation intelligence (report generation, Q&A)
- Self-supervised learning
- Domain Adaptation
2) Human centered AI & Human-AI collaboration:
- Enabling control of and collaboration with AI
- Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics of AI
- Technical or sociotechnical issues related to the creation and use of AI
For PhD students: scholarship to cover the tuition fees and a monthly stipend.
For Visiting students: monthly stipend. The minimum duration is six months.
For research assistants: competitive salary commensurate with experience.
How to Apply:
Please email the following application package to mh...@smu.edu.sg with the title header of [App-(Visiting) PhD] or [App-RA] 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
You can email any questions about this position to Min Lee (mh...@smu.edu.sg)
The guidelines for PhD programs and applications can be found in https://scis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/PhD/online-application.
The deadline for submitting an official PhD application is Jan 31 (early submission is encouraged).
The deadline for a research assistant and a visiting student position is rolling-based.
Other Info:
See our previous research at minl22.github.io.
SMU is the third national university in Singapore and the computer science of SMU ranks 15th in Asia and 83rd worldwide (CS Ranking 2025).