I hope you are doing well.
We have an opening for a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in my ANRF-sponsored PMECRG research project at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SVNIT Surat. The position is for two years and focuses on multilingual fact verification, misinformation detection, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
📅 Application Deadline: 30 July 2026 (5:00 PM)
Please refer to the attached advertisement for complete details or click the link: https://www.svnit.ac.in/Data/jobs/2026/July/SVNIT%20DoCSE%20JRF%20Adv.pdf
📝 How to Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4436644882/
📧 Queries: shri...@coed.svnit.ac.in
About the Project
Our project, साक्ष्य, aims to develop an AI-powered multilingual fact-verification framework capable of automatically retrieving reliable evidence, reasoning over multiple information sources, and generating transparent explanations for claims in Indian languages. The project will combine advances in Information Retrieval, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Question Answering, and Multilingual AI to build trustworthy fact-verification systems for Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and other Indic languages.
🔬 We are looking for candidates interested in:
✅ NLP & Large Language Models (LLMs)
✅ Information Retrieval & RAG
✅ Working on Indian languages, e.g., Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
✅ Misinformation Mitigation & Explainable AI
✅ Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face
I would be grateful if you could kindly circulate the attached advertisement among your students, colleagues, and relevant academic networks. This will help us reach suitable candidates.
Thank you very much for your support and assistance.
Kind regards,
Dr. Shrikant Malviya (PostDoc, Durham University, UK)
Assistant Professor
DoCSE, SVNIT, Surat
9451851905, https://skmalviya.bitbucket.io/